Wood Windows

The San Marco Apartments on N.E. Couch Street.

Here’s a window repair for the list of “unusual repairs” list.

Smoking? Fireworks?

Vandalism? Arson?

Whatever caused it, the fire blistered the Vinyl Snap-Bead that glazes the glass to the sash. You can enlarge the photo by clicking on it if you want to see it a little better.

Other than the means by which the need for repair came about…

…the other unusual aspect of this project was how the window coincided with a stairwell landing.

As you can clearly see in the above photo, the landing pretty much cuts straight across the middle of the opening. As you can also see, someone removed the shrubs by the time we returned with the replacement window.

This did pose a slight challenge because the Marvin window sash TILT towards the interior to install them, and to remove them.

Of course this was nothing a seasoned window mechanic wasn’t able to deal with. The new window