dave allston
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Thanks in advance for your advice,
I have purchased a house which is over 80 years old, and still has most of its original parts in place. This includes the fantastic huge bedroom windows, with intricate mouldings and tiny windows within it, etc.
my problem right now is that the windows cannot open! I guess time, the elements, several coats of paint have sealed them shut. And they are the frustrating old type of windows where the only way to open them is to push upwards with your palm at the top of the window frame, where there is only about a third of an inch between the pane of glass and the lip of the frame, if you know what I mean.
We've tried opening them all summer and all early-winter (hoping that the temperature change might help free them), but no luck. My carpenter took a look while re-doing my bathroom and he couldn't get them either. We've tried tapping all around to loosen it, we've tried using a hammer upwards to open it, and my dad really tried banging it upwards and ended up slightly breaking the top piece of the window right out of the corner joint (I guess the window is not held together by nails but by being slotted together).
Anyways, does anyone have any ideas or tips? Would be much appreciated! Thanks very much in advance,
Dave Allston
I have purchased a house which is over 80 years old, and still has most of its original parts in place. This includes the fantastic huge bedroom windows, with intricate mouldings and tiny windows within it, etc.
my problem right now is that the windows cannot open! I guess time, the elements, several coats of paint have sealed them shut. And they are the frustrating old type of windows where the only way to open them is to push upwards with your palm at the top of the window frame, where there is only about a third of an inch between the pane of glass and the lip of the frame, if you know what I mean.
We've tried opening them all summer and all early-winter (hoping that the temperature change might help free them), but no luck. My carpenter took a look while re-doing my bathroom and he couldn't get them either. We've tried tapping all around to loosen it, we've tried using a hammer upwards to open it, and my dad really tried banging it upwards and ended up slightly breaking the top piece of the window right out of the corner joint (I guess the window is not held together by nails but by being slotted together).
Anyways, does anyone have any ideas or tips? Would be much appreciated! Thanks very much in advance,
Dave Allston