Recent content by Sndy

Excellent! Thank you Crank! This has worked perfectly well but it looks a bit hard to handle for a beginner, is it worth sticking with it for the replacement, or a more obvious modern version? External caulk of some kind? I’m impressed with how well the wood has survived all these years...

Mystery composition! I'm repairing a window frame in a 1960s house. The gap between the wooden frame and the concrete external sill is filled with this yellow sand. The frame itself is held up on blocks that this stuff is packed around and then painted over. It's moist, sticks together between...

Hi! Looking for some advice please. I’ve got a 1965 house with tilting windows with Spilka hinges. I’m going to refinish them because they’re still working BUT there’s some gaps opened around the bottom corners. See the pic. The near frame is the example where it looks like the bottom rail has...