Learn how to repair your wood windows- click here to register for Historic Ithaca’s Hands-On Window Restoration Workshop, June 11, 2011.

Windows in the news in Rochester:

http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/news/articles/2011/01/PRESERVATIO

Why to Repair and Retain Your Old Windows

“These Windows Matter” The National Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.preservationnation.org/issues/weatherization/windows/

Original and Historic Wood Windows: Repair & Preservation
Preservation League of NYS Seven to Save List 2006
http://www.historicsaranaclake.org/PDF/Preservation-of-Wood-Windows-10-6.pdf

“Should Your Old Windows Be Saved?”
Rob Yagid, Fine Homebuilding, 2010
http://www.finehomebuilding.com/PDF/Free/021210040.pdf

“Repair-Don’t Replace-Those Older Wood Windows”
Rebecca Williams, NTHP, May/June 2009
http://www.communitypreservation.org/enews/windows.htm

“What Replacement Windows Can’t Replace:
The Real Cost of Removing Historic Windows”
Walter Sedovic and Jill Gotthelf, APT Bulletin, 36:4/2005.
http://www.state.il.us/hpa/ps/images/replacement_windows.pdf

Preservation Brief 9: The Repair of Historic Wooden Windows
http://www.nps.gov/hps/tps/briefs/brief09.htm

Maintenance, Repair Guides, and Weatherization

National Trust for Historic Preservation Window Resource List
http://www.preservationnation.org/issues/weatherization/resources/windows.html

“Historic Preservation and Weatherization Toolkit”
NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

http://nysparks.state.ny.us/shpo/documents/WeatherizationForOldHousesToolkit.pdf

“Restoring Window Sashes”
David Gibney, Fine Homebuilding, Feb/Mar 2004.
http://www.finehomebuilding.com/PDF/Free/021161084.pdf

“Saving Old Windows: Reputty, Reglaze, Repaint, Repair”
Thomas Baker, This Old House, Nov/Dec 1995.
http://www.dahp.wa.gov/pages/HistoricSites/documents/SavingWindows.pdf

“Strips and Storms”
Steve Jordan, Old House Journal, Nov/Dec 2004
http://www.oldhousejournal.com/strips_and_storms_windows/magazine/1099