Repair of old wooden windows

Old wooden windows, much better metal-plastic - therefore and are valued all over the world. It is much cheaper to renovate your old windows than installing new ones. There are several advantages in favor of restoration. Previously, the windows were made of well-dried wood - there is a non-flow of the current, dried by accelerated methods. The old window has already been laughed and established, and often requires only cosmetic repairs. Old windows, from a natural tree - breathe, in contrast to the new-fashioned windows from metalplastic.

Therefore, the repair of old windows is relevant to replace them with new ones. Minor repairs, and replacing some details - much more efficiently than replacing old windows to new ones. The bottom plank is especially suffering. Condensate and hydrinated, flow along the stele down and contribute to the occurrence of fungus and rotting the lower frame of the frame.

Dismantling and disassembly of old windows

1. Work on the restoration of window frames is desirable to be comprehensively, and the windowsill and a window box are included in the cosmetic processing. To start working on the restoration and restoration of old wooden frames, they must be dismantled.
2. A screwdriver or screwdriver - remove the handles, spivelights and loops. You can remove the resulting paint or soften the paint to remove the paint.
3. By placing the window framugue on the desktop or workbench, carefully remove the glass. A screwdriver and a joinery knife, open the smelter if the glasses are standing on it or undermine the same stroke tools.

Removing old paint from wooden surfaces

1. Removing the window glass, clean the folding grooves from dirt and extraneous growths from paint and putty.
2. Disassembled and glazed window frames, it is necessary to clean from old paint. For this, a special chemical cleaner or mechanical method is applied. By means of a construction dryer or a more radical method - a soldering lamp.
3. Paint cleaner is effective with a small layering. If there are many layers of paint - use thermal processing. The softened old paint is removed by a spatula.
4. Painted wooden window surface is treated with sandpaper or grinding machine. After grinding, dents and damage are wrapped with a putty on a tree. After drying the putty, the final thin surface stripper is made. A window frame and windowsill are subjected to similar processing.

Replacement of window frame binding details

1. Depending on the size of the window frame, the window consists of imposses separating the frame into two or more parts horizontally and vertically.
2. In the event that one or more imposses are not subject to restoration - they can be replaced. Choose good rectangular pieces of timber dried, without bitch and give for a profile in a joinery workshop.
3. Make on them the drawing markup for spikes, lylish, nests and folds. Cut bars at an angle of 45 °, taking into account the extreme tolerances.
4. The bars are attached in the intended place, then fine-skinned saw or jamble spikes and peas. Minor skew can spoil all the work. The thicker, the thicker, the thickness of the socket, will lead to the appearance of cracks, and the thorns, less drying the nests leads to the shame of the frame.
5. Pawing the spikes and eyes, proceed to further processing. The thickening parts are spilled with cheeks and cut the folding surfaces. Zenzubel or folding all roughness is removed and adjacent surfaces are adjusted. That the assembly went easier, the chisel is removed by the small chamfer "on the Us". Some tight nodes carefully be bought by a queen.
6. Binding assembly is checked by a carpentry square. Pay attention to the fact that the folds of the frames are in the same plane. In this case, the glass laughs smoothly and good tightness is achieved.
7. After checking the binding of dry - all connections are labeled with carpentry glue and collected again. The intended binding is put in the wiima and evaporate on the correctness of the corners and throughout. In the corners, the holes with a diameter of 10 - 12 mm are drilled and inserted into them with glue glue.
8. On the lower bruke of binding, the sampling is satisfied. The size and form of low tide is different, but under it there should always be a tear - a semicircular or rectangular groove. It is located along the outer edge of 10 mm from the edge. Moveings on the glue, additionally fixing with nails under the tilt.

Glazing of wooden window frames

1. Window glasses should be 3-4 mm less than all sides of the distance between high folds. This is necessary in case of wetting and warming up wood.
2. On the perimeter of the fold, a thin layer of transparent silicone is applied, which will prevent the penetration of moisture and dust.
3. From the opposite side, apply the stroke with silicone and fixed with studs. Studs are clogged at a distance of 200 - 300 mm and at a depth of 7 - 10 mm.

Painting wooden windows

1. For high-quality repair of old wooden windows, judging by the reviews before the painting frame, it is desirable to handle the antiseptic.
2. For high-quality paint cover, the window unit is covered with oil. After drying, the oils can be proceeded to paint. As a rule, the windows are painted in two layers, the first - primer and the second - purple.
3. In order for the paint does not get on the glass while repairing old windows is used by a painting tape (see photo). The painting tape is pasted along the staple on the glass throughout the perimeter of the window.
4. Detailed instructions on how to independently repair old wooden windows with your own hands - there is on the video at the end of the article.