going green; old windows in a new world

Historic Preservation &

LEED Certification

Documentation of Placement & Conditions

Create a Floor Plan and Number System

Format a Standardized Conditions Report

Physically Number Sash and Sash Parts

Dutchmen, Epoxy, Replacement in kind

Check for, and maintain, square (or not so…) you’d be surprised (or not so…)

Save and salvage, storm windows, basement windows, obsolete windows

Gentlest means possible, putty, epoxy putty, dutchman repairs, replacement…in kind!

Making a window work again, new/old hardware old windows

Preserve and repair original hardware, knobs, escutcheons, latches and catches… make ‘em work

Replace with like materials, salvage yards and custom hardware companies

Replace with improved technologies… but still old, sash chain vs. sash chord, stop bead adjusters vs. washers

Weather Stripping for Conservation

Fit and function for the use of the space, fixed upper sash, tight, operable lower sash, not too tight

Weather stripping and maintaining function in an old window, tight but not too tight

Custom wood storms to meet aesthetic and energy needs, tight and maybe a little too tight

“Sustainability means stewardship. There can be no sustainable development without a central role for historic preservation. That’s what you all are doing today, and future generations will thank you for it tomorrow” Donovan Rypkema, Traditional Building, Boston

It is better to preserve than to repairIt is better to repair than to restoreIt is better to restore than to reconstruct

A. N. Dideron1839