On Jul 10, 9:43*am, deano wrote:
On 9 Jul, 13:56, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
deano wrote:

Before anyone asks...
Big house, 7 bedrooms, located in Kenton (North West London). Exterior
paint-work neglected for many years, now affecting rendered walls and
most woodwork both. Interior not much better, having last been
decorated some 25 years ago, albeit to a high standard when done.

I have my work cut out, as you can imagine.

One of my tasks was to repair the exterior cill to a metal-framed,
stairwell-landing window, to the extent of chiseling the rotten cill
back to sound wood and then splicing on a ripped-down length of new
cill moulding, recently bought for the purpose.
Unfortunately, it turned out that the whole frame was shot, beyond
repair, and I have had to remove the whole lot and board-up the bare-
brick opening, temporarily, while I source a new frame.

My next problem (and the reason for this post) is that, the heads of
the screws fixing the metal frame to the hard-wood frame, are obscured
by the glazed, leaded panes of glass, which were only recently
renovated!

Its this a standard s/G leaded light in metal frame thing?

If so they are not hard to get out..I have these installed and the
leaded lights are puttied into the steel frames.

And the leaded lights are by no means hugely expensive.

Contact these guys to see what is possible before expensing huge amounts
of time.

http://www.mikehonourwindows.co.uk/honour_windows.htm

No, I don't think they're standard.
The window has three sections with the middle one an opener. All three
sections are glazed, using different types of obscured glass, in a
random, overlapping pattern, with leaded joints running vertically and
horizontally. The client loves it and doesn't want me to touch the
glass... I hate it and the job is more complex that it needs to be,
but what can one do... she is being charged accordingly, so I have to
do it her way.

cheers
d.



IIUC youve got a metal framed window installed into a wooden frame.
This is not normal, the steel frame is just attached to the brickwork
usually, and the small variable gap puttied. The whole point of steel
frames is they don't rot. Thermally they're terrible, and secondary
glazing would be a good move. Make sure its openable.


NT