Miscellaneous Repair

Once upon a time, this was a public school in S.E. Portland, or so the story goes. But for years now, it has been being used to house & restrain troubled female youths who haven’t yet graduated to full-scale adult-type incarceration.

It would probably come as a surprise to nobody to hear that these females tend to resent these imposed restraints upon their youthful proclivities.

Nor would many people be shocked to hear that some of these girls engage in acting out their frustration and opposition to the authorities who have brought such encumbrances to bear upon their personhood.

And so it is that we have been called upon for a number of years now to replace the broken glass that serve as the exclamation-marks to the girl’s protests.

But now, as you can see, we are no longer merely dealing with broken glass, but also broken window sash as well.

Unfortunately, the original Vinyl Windows are no longer made. So replacing just the one or two broken sash is not an option. And no, generally speaking…there is no screwing or gluing the various vinyl components back together. If they were wood, then that would be a different story.

Here are a couple more broken sash which the grounds manager had collected after boarding up the openings.

And as it would happen, these broken single-hung windows were factory-mulled together with other single-hung windows. So one broken sash translated into a mulled assembly like this needing to be replaced. That’s three single-hung windows mulled together to become one window assembly.

And so it was that this particular project involved replacing a quantity of two complete mulled assemblies such as this new one shown above.

Here’s a photo from the interior after the bottom sash have been installed. Expensive temper tantrums.