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Original sunroom wood sash windows.

Apparently, the two flanking casements opened originally, but had long since been painted shut.

Our client asked whether or not it was possible to take the two center mulled picture casements and turn them into sliding sash.

She wanted the ventilation in a room that was rather hot in the summer months.

She wasn’t dissuaded when we told her that she wouldn’t really gain much ventilation by turning the larger sash into sliders, since they could only slide as far as the flanking windows were wide.

So we installed a pocket-door track and roller assembly above and to the interior side of the flanking sash, also creating a track of sorts at the bottom.

Security for the opening came in the form of the surface-mount bolts, one of which is shown in the previous photo, and a dutch door quadrant above.

The quadrant is not made for this application, but it worked quite well.

The final touch was the installation of a bug screen on the exterior between the two flanking sash.

Of course we weatherstripped the windows along all four edges of each sash by means of a pile weatherstripping product.