Restoring Old Doors And Windows

Repair old wood windows where you can find help doing almost anything you might need to save your old windows.

Restoring old doors and windows.

Old house journal s compendium of articles about how to repair and restore doors and windows for old houses including hardware repair finishes glass repair installation and more. By the diy experts of the family handyman magazine. And your natural finish will look like new. Sand down the paint around the damaged area to bare wood.

A pull type scraper with a rectangular blade also will work paint which is often layered so thickly in old houses that it can prevent windows from operating needs to be sanded or removed at this point too. If so prepare the door by sanding it lightly with 220 grit sandpaper going. Everyone who owns an old house needs to know how to restore old windows. Cut another groove for the weather stripping.

Restoration resources carries hundreds of old period doors circa 1850 1940 including interior pocket and entrance doors in many traditional styles wood types and sizes generally ranging in price from 50 to 500. Scraping sanding and restaining will only take about one hour. Read the rest of the 5 worst mistakes of historic homeowners. There are lots of them and they usually need a lot of work but with the tutorials tools and supplies on this page you can learn how to restore old windows like a pro from a pro.

Apply the stabilizer image 2 according to the manufacturer s instructions and let it dry until the wood hardens. Pam uses her trusty 5 in 1 painter s tool to remove debris like old glazing compound caulk nails screws and broken glass. I ve put together a resource page of how to do the most common tasks associated with restoring repairing and maintaining historic windows at how to. Use a chisel or scraper to remove any badly rotted areas or old wood filler image 1.

If the door is an interior one you may be able to restore it by staining over the old finish and applying a new finish. Route a groove in the window to receive the pin to connect to the jamb liner image 1. It s easy to fix the finish on windows when it begins to flake and fade. Rotted wood can be repaired to look like new with easy to use epoxy fillers designed for wood window restoration see abatron ad below.

The doors shown are just a small sampling of what we may have in stock at any given time and what is actually available in our 7 000 sq.