What companies make the T-shape weatherstrip

I hope there will be more videos sometime soon 😁

What would you recommend to paint the wood inside if I want to clear coat it and paint it white ? On the outside it will be painted with color - what is your recommendation on primer / paint ? Love your videos , please make some more !

Thank you so much for this video ❗️ Great explanation ❗️ Please post some more ❗️

This is the most informative video I have seen . THANK YOU ! I have been searching for information for a month .

Much respect for your knowledge sharing! Watched all 3 step videos and appreciate your time in showing how to repair these older yet usable windows. This also saves spending extra money on newer windows that will not match the old style. Thank you again for these videos.

How do you get the wood pegs out? Drill?

You did not show the proper method of installing the bronze spring. You doubtless know how to do it but you didn’t show it. You also did not mention installing double pane glass

Well that was useless.

This guy has no idea what he's doing. It's baffling why he's making these videos.

Great service you are doing

I was quite intimidated by my 106 year old double hung windows too. So I kept postponing refinishing them. I insulated the attic, then floor through the crawlspace and then inject foamed the perimeter brick walls. But this spring sitting inside during this covid stand down, I started with the tools and gently disassembled one window's vertical interior side trim and exposed the weight pig iron counter weights. Once the bottom sash was cut free of the old cotton counter weight ropes I took it to the garage for a good sanding. I put new putty where needed around the window glass and painted primer on the resanded sash. I then reinstalled it by re-roping the bottom sash to the counter weighs new 4' poly ropes. Then I began to look at the top sash over a few evening red wines and wondered what was stopping it from coming down? The answer was nothing but paint, caulking and more paint. So with a utility knife, chisel and flat hacksaw blade I cleared out the sliding joint and the top sash was free to slide. Success! I removed the top sash off the old ropes to re-sand, prime, re-rope and reinstall it. While the sashes were out I sanded all the window frame surfaces and especially the sliding surfaces then primed them and re-assembled the top and then bottom sashes and counter weights. I even found room to insulate the back exterior area of the counter weight bays with foil bubble and screwed wooden lathe. The top, sides and bottoms of the sashes are groved where zinc sheeting is folded making a window perimeter air gasket. Some of these were missing and they will be replaced. The wood is the windows shrunk a little over 106 years. So the bottom sash wiggled when closed and latched. So I added 1, 2 or 3 layers of foil bubble insulation in the bottom channel of the bottom sash. This tightened up the seal of the window making it more energy efficient. I refinished 20 windows and learned something new every time and so I kept going back to update the others. They are now all beautiful, highly functional, ancient, traditional, almost air tight and way better than 80's aluminum framed windows. Every evening in spring, summer and autumn I open all the windows to flush the thermal mass of the old house with cool and fresh night time air. Then closing them in the morning trapping in all that coolness for the hot high desert days requiring no air conditioning when 95 F outside. As I half lower the top sash and half open the bottom sash of all the windows I get cross winds through the house but I also get convention currents working to cool the house as warmer air rises and flows out the top sash and cooler air enters the bottom sashes X 20 windows. A passive air conditioning unit architectural designed into the house design 106 years ago. It is enjoyable to think this was the way the architect had intended the house to function daily. Good times to be taught daily by an architect from 106 years ago:)

Thank you for the information. Have had a broken pane sealed with clear silicone for 7 years just found your video and was able to get the double hung window out so I can repair it. Thanks

Where to get those kerf in weather seal ?

The bottom rail of my top sash is rotted, I know how to remove, but how to fix?

I LOVE THIS VIDEO! We're ready to repair the old windows on our Victorian home, but couldn't find anything that showed us the first step - HOW TO GET THEM OUT OF THE FRAME! I thought we were going to have to climb a ladder to the 2nd floor for every one! Thanks for posting this! *Please consider remaking in the future - picture is a little fuzzy at times.

I would love it if you would actually DO what you describe! Show us your routing, show us the BETTER method of side weather stripping, put on the weather stripping in a window that’s in place, so we can see how to do it! We have 16 1870s windows to do and love the lists you put on your videos, but SHOWING works better than just telling. Thanks so much!!

Thanks for this series. Very helpful.

Jesus this is unwatchable. Why make a "video" if you can't see what's going on half the time.

hi there I just got a call from jesus He said he's getting back into the carpentry business and he wants his screwdriver back.

are you a homosexual?

I would pay for a video on a start to end sash window build. I would like to make some 8 panel paned glass sash windows for my new home.

You mentioned linseed oil where you're putting the pins in. Would you use raw or boiled linseed oil?

compliment and questions: very nicely done series. Agree that the video is not yet optimal, but the points are clear. - the old windows did not slide very much as the outside paint prevented to top window to slide down. Does the inside rail for the outside window need paint or can i leave it bare so I have more space to slide the windows? - I have storm windows on the outside. The old ones have been screwed and glued. Is the glue recommended?

That was good info. Cool about the door. Just a suggestion camera guy needs to go or show what your pointing at much of what you were pointing at wasn't in the shot :(

Vinyl windows, windows that are metal have no life. Single pane wood windows have lots of life. Restored single pane wood windows are beautiful. I like old wood windows.

I am pretty sure you can find good solution on stodoys page :)

thanks for the information it was very helpful putting a label to piece I destroyed as I removed the window. Imagine my joyous surprise when you said it was a piece easy to find. Unfortunately finding the parting stop is turning out to be more challenging. Do you have any suggestions on where I can find it. I am way over here on the east coast,

Camera work is awful and truly distracting. Otherwise good video. Thank you for the info.

Sorry it's taken so long.....There are many window rehab folks in Michigan. I'm not sure where Hastings is, but there are folks in Dexter, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, LaPeer and Kalamazoo......Really....is Kalamazoo a real place? Anyway go to: www.windowpreservationalliance.org/directory to find someone near you to help.

Thanks all. I'm afraid there is not an intermediate set, but you get the idea and it really isn't rocket science. Take your time and bring your patience, and it will work out.

have a great deal of respect for guys like you willing to take the time to film yourself and show us your knowledge. thank you for sharing!

Very helpful

it needs 2 iron weights on the left and the right

what about the frame that holds the window in thats whats rotted away in my daughters window need help urgent plls

Thanks for the videos. 1. What do you think about bedding the glass in silicone 2. Is painting the sash with epoxy prior to painting advisable? Dennis L.

Hair felt works well on the top, middle and bottom of the sashes.

Where does one get the 'fancier' version T-shape weather stripping that also acts as a guide for the windows?

Hi. I know your vids have been up for awhile, but I just bought an old house with 3'x6' double hung (I think)windows like you are showing here, but mine have an eyebrow arch on the top. The home was built in 1872. I have 17 of them. I need to do maintenance on them 15 years ago and am considering doing it myself. Your advise is great! Thanks for sharing. I would really like to find storms with the screen/window in them so I don't have to money with them in spring and fall as well as have to manage a storage location for them. Do you know of anyone who makes them for eyebrow arch top windows? Do you know any window repair specialists with experience with these old windows near Hastings, Michigan? I would like to have the upgrades with the weather stripping installed including the steel guides as you have shown in this video on the sides, but I might be getting in over my head in terms of how much time it will take me. Thanks!

I suggest you get another camera person who knows to shoot what you're talking about in the center of the frame and who knows how to position him or herself to get clear shots. Otherwise good tutorial.

This is great thanks. Is there an intermediate series?

A reasonable tutorial, but he does not show how to replace a rotten windowsill.This is a much more complex process involving removing the old sill and splicing new pulley stiles at the foot of the window. If I knew how to make the video, I would do one, showing the process, as I have repaired hundreds in the course of my work. No good at computery things though!

Awesome video!

what CU cannot afford a tripod to hold the camera, Should have used the film department students. Otherwise not bad on information.

my 80 year old windows are any pretty decent shape but need some simple restoration. However, the bottom sash will not come out because there are metal guides that the window slides on. Any suggestions?

This is excellent. I'd much prefer to retain the original windows on my new house than replace them, but they're in need of repair and restoration. Now I have an inkling of how to get started!

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks, Kevin and UCD!

You mention epoxy in this demonstration. What kind of epoxy? I've had people fill in some repairs in our old house with Bondo, and it shrinks (as I thought it would). Great videos, by the way.