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83F and sunny this afternoon with mild breezes. I was on my feet by 12:20PM, and out back with the pets until about 1:30PM.
The first thing I did, once inside, was sand the edges of the Window A frame. I tested it out in the window well, and it goes in easily now.
So it was time to get out the other four panes of glass... get them situated in the frame, and glaze them in!
BUT...
Goddam Glasshopper only gave me SEVEN panes of glass!.. not eight!
And of course they are closed on Saturday and Sunday!
So for this weekend, I'm at a stand still with the storms themselves.
But there was still work to do on the sash windows, so I got started with that.
First I scraped all the loose paint, and brushed off all the debris. Then I went over everything with baby wipes, to get the dirt off... especially the ledges. And finally I cleaned the glass with window cleaner.
After that, I reglazed in all the spots around the panes where it had fallen away.
Window B here has been through a lot! I think it's been missing it's storm for ten years!
But somehow it's survived. It's not rotting... just very weathered.
Window A was in better shape, but it still needed some touching up.
So, I'm taking a break right now, but soon I'll be back out there to paint the sash frames and the ledges.
However, yesterday, I did have an idea about the turnbuckles.
There was an issue with Window B, where the storm frame kinda fell back into the well at the top, when I put it in there last week.
And the same thing happend with Window A today, after I sanded it.
So I'm gonna use three buckles, instead of four, arranged as seen below...
If you see here, the top center turnbuckle is screwed into the storm frame, not the house.
And then the other two are screwed into the house.
This should keep the frames from falling back into the well at the top, but also keep the rest of the frame from trying to fall forward out of the well.
Dad came very close to having this idea himself!
He'd put a turnbuckle at the top center for Window A (which I removed today) probably to address this issue with it fallin in... which it did not.
And his mistake is probably why that storm eventually fell out and broke.
But his center top turnbuckle is what gave me the idea you see above.
So... on the shoulders of giants, I guess.
But this configuration should actually prevent them from being able to move at all!
The ledges slope upward on the inside so the frame can't move backward into the bottom, but the two buckles on the right and left should keep it from ever creeping out at the bottom either.
Yvette and I are back after our long, lazy, Saturday walk.
But before that, I did managed to get everything painted...
There is blue masking tape around the edges of the front windows so... it's not as sloppy as it looks here.
In addition to the front windows, I also painted the trim for the small music room window on the far left, and the step for the front door, so that everything matches.
That's better!.. the masking tape is off, the ladder is put away, and the flaming porch lamp has gone on.
I'll have to get the turnbuckles installed tomorrow.
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