Wood Windows

Southwest Hills, just north of the Bridlemile neighborhood. Bill Jorgens, of Jorgens Construction (shown) introduces us to a long standing client & friend of his who owns the property in this photo.

Bill’s friend asked him for help in finding someone to help repair a bank of wood windows. The original single-pane windows are there, somewhat hidden just behind the Wisteria vine, or whatever type of vine it is. If you enlarge the photo, you may be able to see it better.

As it so often happens, the painters had been getting ready to paint the house, when they discovered the soft wood in the window assembly.

Months later (in the dead of winter), after much hand-wringing over the exact course of action to be taken…the window assembly is cordoned-off from the rest of the house, and the work is begun.

So yes, we work 12 months of the year. The entire length of the longer southerly facing sill was toast, extending down into the structural wall components below.

And so it was determined that we should replace all twelve of the sash along the longer wall, because the extent of the damage and the costs…

…of repairing them exceeded the cost of replacement. Steve Hilt is fine-tuning the bevel on the bottom of the new sash.

Bruce Hinkenlooper takes one of the new sash for a test drive.

The wall and sill components are repaired, the new sash are installed…

…and now it’s time to call the painters back.