Wood Windows

Close to the Sellwood district.

Another crop of weather damaged wood windows

Frankly, this house is old enough to merit a rotten window sash or jamb or two.

What’s mind boggling is when a house that is only 6 or 8 years old has rotten windows already.

In the Pacific Northwest here, the dominant species of wood window is Fir. Most pre 70’s original wood sash were built from Fir trees.

For years I assumed that this was probably a practice across the continental United States. However, I found out from a lumber broker who sold lumber to a number of…

…window manufactures, that back east where Pine is the dominant wood species in the forested areas, most windows have been manufactured of Pine for generations.