A classic house in the Alameda District.

Before Shot.

Direct-Glazed Glass had perhaps replaced the original wood sash windows years ago.

After Shot.

Before Shot.

Or one might speculate that this was originally designed as an open-air sun-porch that…

After Shot.

…someone decided to encapsulate to keep the weather out.

After Close-Up Shot.

Whatever the case, the remodeling of the 2nd story sunroom translated into the…

Before Shot.

…provision & installation to what is a close replica of other original sash on the house.

A small stucco Spanish villa style home in the Sellwood area.

The combination of a south facing elevation, with out-swing wood casements & a lack of eves makes for rotten windows.

Our client specifies new wood window-sash to match the original 1 3/8? thick fir sash with single-pane putty-glazed glass.

This would not have been our first recommendation for openings with such exposures, but our recommendations were not sought.

With fastidious care and maintenance to the paint on these sash, you might be able to minimize the inevitable swelling & water damage.

But as those who are also employed to repair wood windows & doors in the Willamette Valley, we know all too well that these windows will lose their new-car smell in fairly short order.

Operable wood-framed screens on the interior was a classy addition.

The breakfast nook was changed from a set of double operable casements, to one single picture window. Another classy choice.

Original Round-Top Double-Casement Window Opening with Zinc-Camed Glass

Not much protection from the elements + years of zero preventative-maintenance has translated into rotten Sash.

New Sash was made. The Zinc Camed Glass was repaired & the new sash installed into the original Jambs.

Better than New.

A northeast Portland neighborhood. Not far from Irving Park.

If you click on the first photo to enlarge it, you may be able to make out the fact that there are two of these large window assemblies, one each on either side of the front door.

We were initially called out to look at the failed insulated glass in these windows, but of course as soon as we arrived and walked up the steps to the front door, we glanced over at these wood windows and could see that most of the sashes were in an advanced state of decay.

There was some checking going on in some of the sill components, but by and large, the rest of the assemblies looked pretty good. So it was determined to simply replace these Marvin sash with new custom-made wood windows.

It was determined that the flanking sash with the round top glass would be replaced with 9-lite SDL muntin pattern. Steve and Bruce are shown here as they begin to remove the Marvin sash.

As always, careful measures are taken to minimize the unnecessary spread of dust and debris.

We worked with Wooddale Windows in Oregon City (http://wooddalewindows.net) for the manufacture of these custom windows, and of course they were perfect.

They were exactly what we specified. Wooddale Windows having the ability to manufacture custom sash with SDL (simulated-divided-lites) fills a very important niche for us.

For the uninitiated, Simulated Divided Lites are, as the term suggests, a simulation of there being separate pieces of glass in the one window sash. The wood muntins that help provide the simulation are permanently affixed (adhered) to the glass on both the interior and the exterior.

This is a substantial improvement over the wood-grids that always fell off the windows, or the massive muntins that were used for a season to actually achieve True-Divided-Lites for insulated glass, instead of the common 7/8″ muntins that were used for over a hundred years with single-pane glass. Our client loved the windows.

A prominent estate in the Goose Hollow vicinity.

Time for some of the casement sash to be replaced.

Scaffold is erected to facilitate our accessing the window openings as needed.

Several of the openings would otherwise be a bit of a challenge to reach from the exterior, such as this one in the attic.

Another opportunity to highlight our skill-set related to machining & installing new products into the original jambs. Jared & Nate have set up a temporary shop in one of the garages. The sash are sized, beveled, mortised for hinges, machined for weatherstripping and the casement latches installed.

Brandon goes about fine-tuning the fit and operation of these fir-sash with true-dived zinc-camed single-pane glass.

A Spanish Villa

Weathered windows to be replaced.

Cremone Bolts

Anderson Window Mechanics installing the new Sash into the original window jambs.

Weatherstripped the windows & installed all the original hardware.