Thread 2943484

This is the worst of my windows.
Will post 9 pictures total to start with.
The other windows I can repair myself.
This one is rotting, and you can see the wood has .. shrunk? Or like sucked-in in places.
Maybe it's where the rot is collapsing the wood.
On the inside in one spot there seemed to be a lump of fungus or something which has grown on the inside of the window.
I need to keep this window functional and beautiful for another 2 years to keep my wife happy until we can afford to replace it.
Also there's an owners corporation over multiple properties on this one property, so I need to keep those dickheads happy too.

As you can see, there's clearly already been repairs in the past (not by me) as there's already old filler of some kind been applied.

My plan so far is
>pray to the gods for a sheet of glass not to come flying out at me
>dig out all the rot in the vertical thingo
>spray with wood hardener
>inserts some 18x18mm H3 treated pine as structural support
>add small L-bracket where it meets the horizontal window thingo
>rebuild the rest of the vertical with builders bog
>repeat the same process for the horizontal, and attach the horizantal H3 treated pine to the L-brackets for support
>make it all beautiful & nicely painted etc afterwards
I've got a shedload of tools and gear already so I'm okay on that front

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>will post more after posting cooldown

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>booba

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>>2943484 (OP)
You can buy a basic bitch PVC window for like $200-300 in this size, you're gonna put in 20 hours of work to get a total garbage window still. Go mow lawns or something for 20 hours and buy a new simple pvc window.

>>2943503
it's a commieblock so I'd have to get approval by the committee as the PVC frame wouldn't match everyone elses wooden windows
also this is australia so x5 that price
the window is 1.7m x 2.4m, Americans have it so easy if a window that size is only $300
Appreciate the input, even if it’s basically a non-answer. Anyone with real experience want to weigh in?

>>2943484 (OP)
I've restored windows in worse shape and they should be good for the next 30+ years with minor maintainance:
>strip all paint and modern fillers
>cut out truly rotten-through wood back to the last solid area and dutchmen in replacements
>do not use any alkyd hardeners or modern epoxy/acrylic fillers
>replace glazing putty with proper chalk and linseed oil (many have additives that are detrimental to the putty's longterm purpose), also use this for cracks and small rotten areas that you've raked out
>paint with linseed oil paint (not 'oil based' it has the wrong properties completely)
>maintain by wiping linseed oil on the paint every 10 years

It sounds old fashioned but this material system is tried and true: it is very flexible and won't crack, it penetrates the wood deeply to give it water resistance, it is permeable so will allow the wood dry (wood will absorb water whatever you try to do) so you stop any more rotting and paint flaking off. I have 130 year old windows still working using these materials in my main house. A newer holiday property my family owns, with new sapele windows that uses modern alkyd paints from factory seems to be proactively rotting through windows at a rate of 10-15 years - it's stupid and I hate the waste of this dumb fucking new-window industry that seems to be designed to encourage replacements. I don't want to perpetuate it, but I don't have a say about it. New wooden windows will look like this soon enough so I suggest you work with these as they look good enough.

>t. lime plasterer and building conservator

>>2943511
thanks fren
also continue the good fight against the Big Window Conspiracy and thanks for raising awareness about it, it's the first I'm learning of it

The windows on my house look like this but I don't have the time or money to do anything about it

>be OP
>waiting for it to stop raining so I can start this /diy/gore project
>also have to jump through hoops to post on 4chan now
>>2943780
damn .. maybe you should at least cover it in plastic or something to keep the water out?

>>2943484 (OP)
Smash the widow from the outside and take a picture of a baseball inside with glass around it. Send to insurance company.

>>2943780
Use a tall extensible ladder and smash the window frame. Put a rake next to the ladder and take a picture of the ladder in the broken window and send it to the insurance company.

>>2943484 (OP)
Are those old school glazed windows? Super simple to fix. Sand it. Paint it and redo the glazing.

>>2944111
they're from about 1975, if that's what you mean by old school
the construction seems quite simple and straight forward
I was looking at window diagrams to understand what I'm doing but all the diagrams have way more pieces than my windows

>>2943780
you have time to post on 4chan tho

>>2944142
Use a glazing knife to scrape put the old glazing. Buy a few contrainers of new glazing. Its this moldable putty stuff. Also buy some new glacier points. These supplies are cheap. Its an older style of window that predates newer multi-pane windows. It was more common in USA 60s through 80s. It wasnt a huge deal if your kid broke a window playing baseball or whatever because it was just a simple trip to hardware store the repair the windows.

Glacier points are just little tacks the hold the window pane in place for the glazing.
Anyway, you can find a guide thats more comprehensive than the infos I just posted here.. but i told you about the basic parts.

>>2944142 #
Use a glazing knife to scrape put the old glazing. Buy a few contrainers of new glazing. Its this moldable putty stuff. Also buy some new glazier points. These supplies are cheap. Its an older style of window that predates newer multi-pane windows. It was more common in USA 60s through 80s. It wasnt a huge deal if your kid broke a window playing baseball or whatever because it was just a simple trip to hardware store buy a new windows pane and the repair the window.

Glazier points are just little tacks the hold the window pane in place for the glazing.
Anyway, you can find a guide thats more comprehensive than the infos I just posted here.. but i told you about the basic parts.

>>2944185
Honestly. That probably pre-dates the 60s. As I said its old-school.