Window woodwork - the little strip... Advice please
Our old house has wooden framed windows.
And they have a thin strip of wood goes around to hold the glass in. Don't know the proper name for it.
Well it is all warped and dried out and it's had it.
So I went to get some and there is none. It is 10mm x 5mm. Couldn't find any.
Got a strip of 20mm x 7mm I was thinking of maybe cutting down to size.
But I could also put a strip of maybe 10x10 in there. Or something.
And there's no putty left in there so I wonder about that, too. How's that changed in recent years? They still use putty?
Or this new fangled silicon in a squeeze thing that you use the first inch and then the rest dries up and gets wasted?
Any guys on good clues on how I should go about this job?
I've only got a max of 6 windows to do and the biggest three of those would be maybe 4 foot x 3 foot and the three smallest maybe 3foot x 3 foot. So it is not a colossal job.
I was thinking of maybe just running around with this silicone sealer stuff, smoothing it off, leaving it like that - couple of brads maybe but mainly just the sealer holding the glass in. No good?
Attached Images
Read and reply to the full thread at RenovateForum.com....
