The Sash Window Restoration Versus Replacement

Sash window restoration is not such a commonplace art any more. With everyone scaling up, making room for more, and replacing the old with the new even before considering its value, the sash window has suddenly become an iconic piece of art work.

A sash window is very much like what many of today would consider a standard window. However, instead of two panes of glass stacked on top of each other, the sash window has six panes (usually) that stack atop of each other. With three panes on the bottom, three panes on top, the pattern is then repeated to the upper window, each panes separated by a thin but remarkably strong muntin bars.

Homes with sash windows generally are easy to spot. These are windows commonly found in home of the Victorian or Georgian design that are authentically designed. The sash window is a panel on panel framework, usually made up of about six panels within a single window. Each panel is then held tightly in place, as well as separated from each other, by a thin piece of wood known as a muntin bar.

Sash window restoration requires the skillful ability to remove broken or painted pieces of window only within the panel that is affected. Then, the skilled replacement consists of recreating the pane and replacing it, creating an airtight seal.

The sash window restoration is one of the skills that requires a very dedicated hand. Recreating the single paned seal of the sash window is not particularly easy, but it can be done with skill and precision when you know who to ask.

Sash window restoration is one that should always be considered well before replacement. These windows carry our unique history, and tell the story of travels from and to afar, creating lands of freedom and lands of wealth. These are the windows that spot London and that can be seen from the roadway of Georgia’s loneliest highways

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