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Clowns belong in the circus, or so I thought
Sad to say, they are everywhere!Clowns belong in the circus, or so I thought
Yeah, we had a house in Atlanta with alternating triangular panes with wooden muntins, made in the 1920's, that became a historic district while we were there, so the windows couldn't be replaced, but they were casement windows so you could open them all up for quite a nice breeze through the house. We actually cleaned and stripped one frame but that took so long we just left the rest alone after freeing them up to open, they had been painted shut.Have a 172 YRO house, so replacing windows would be a major issue, since there's 23 double hung windows with 1/2" muntins. These windows and muntins were hand made (in 1851 and in 1876). And yes, I'm in a historic district so I need to deal with that.
I don't know what the big deal is with cutting glass, most of the time it's easy. (Not always!) Remember going into a heating supply store for a replacement glass sight tube for our steam boiler, and the guy asking me if I needed it trimmed to size. I said no, I'll cut it myself, and he looked at me like I was about to be fatally injured. (I had never even measured the actual length I needed, since I was planning to cut to length.)Yeah, we had a house in Atlanta with alternating triangular panes with wooden muntins, made in the 1920's, that became a historic district while we were there, so the windows couldn't be replaced, but they were casement windows so you could open them all up for quite a nice breeze through the house. We actually cleaned and stripped one frame but that took so long we just left the rest alone after freeing them up to open, they had been painted shut.
There was a time when every corner hardware store would cut glass to size too. Now a thing of the past.
A belt sander or belt grinder works to trim glass, obviously with some basic safety precautions. I've had to use that technique for making site glass windows of odd sizes for older machines.You do need to have enough to hold onto, however, so it's tough to fix if you are 1/2" too long.