About a year ago, Sandon from
San Francisco Window Pros came to take a look at the window situation in our house. It was pretty cool to learn even a few things from his vast knowledge of old windows. For one, the diamond-y window upstairs was installed inside-out.
I learned that all the one-over-one windows on our house are actually double hung. The little rectangle on the outside of the the bottom pane is the area for the weights of the top section. This is how you know that the top did, and possibly still does, open.
I also learned that the little wavy pieces of wood on the sides at the middle are typical decorative features and are supposed to be there. Before that, I hadn't really paid close attention and simply assumed that the top window sections on all of the windows had been propped up with a block of wood. ...not the case.
When we bought the house, not a single window opened from the top and four of the windows in the first floor living area were painted shut entirely (for eons apparently). Well... last month, with the elbow grease of three people, the windows once again breathed with life.
It was amazing to open these four windows, and it was doubly amazing to be able to open them from both the top and the bottom. Although not now, at some point down the road, we will have fully functional, restored windows.
Labels: Restoration, Ta-Da
