How To Replace Window Glass In Wooden Frame

Replace broken windows in wooden frames

Salve yourself coin past doing your ain glazing. This easy-to-follow guide will help you do a professional chore. Delight take intendance to protect yourself from the hazards posed by working with glass.

Your tools:

•   Record measure
•   Hammer
•   Putty pocketknife
•   Water bucket
•   Goggles
•   Gloves
•   Hacking pocketknife
•   Chisel

1. Measuring for new glass

Measure the rebate (the expanse into which the drinking glass will fit, including the groove in the frame) both horizontally and vertically. Double-cheque for squareness by measuring the diagonals, which should be equal. If your frame is non square, cut a piece of stiff cardboard to the exact size of the rebate. The glazier will use this as a template for cutting the glass to the correct size, allowing for the necessary clearance.

Measuring for new glass

2. Hacking out broken glass

The process of cleaning out an old rebate to have new drinking glass is known as hacking out. Wearable protective gloves and goggles to remove segments of drinking glass from the broken window. Utilise a hacking knife to hack out former putty and drinking glass. Carefully pull out console pins with pliers or pincers. Clean out the rebate using a dusting brush.
Hacking out broken glass

iii. Utilize putty on the inside

Never apply putty to bare wood. Use a primer to prevent wood sucking oil from the putty. When the primer is dry out, knead the putty into a workable plastic state by squeezing information technology in your hands for a few minutes. Squeeze the putty roughly into the rebate, using your pollex and forefinger.
Apply putty on the inside
4. Fit glass

Working from the outside, put the pane of glass in the bedding putty and printing information technology gently into place. Exercise non press the middle of the pane as this may cause it to crack. Tap in panel pins until they are flush with the glass, using a hammer. The hammer head should slide gently against the glass to secure the sprigs. (Practice not aim blows as if you were knocking in a boom.)
Fit glass

5. Apply putty on the outside

Fill the rebate on the outside of the window with putty, pressing it in with your thumb and forefinger. Employ a putty knife to obtain a shine finish, matching the angle on the surrounding panes of the glass. Form the putty into a nifty mitred joint at the corners of the frame. To prevent the knife sticking, go on dipping it into a jar of water. This smooths the putty and seals it onto the drinking glass. Cutting backlog putty away from within the window using the putty knife, then castor downwardly with a dry out brush to seal.
Apply putty on the outside