Bay windows, fixed windows, double-hung windows, steel swing casement windows, French doors. It is much less expensive to restore existing wood and steel windows than buy and install new ones. Restoring the existing windows is better for the overall historical integrity of the structure and the extended neighborhood.
Do not believe that plastic "vinyl trailer park windows" have any business installed in your home. Remember the louvered windows of the 1950's, the vinyl siding of the 1960's and the Tex-cote (20 times thicker than paint) of the 70's to the present? The "NEW" windows will be looked back on, in time, as the scam of the 2010's.
We can completely restore your existing wood windows, both interior and exterior sides, to where one finger will be all you need to open or close them. Steel casement windows are designed to last forever. We can install new glazing putty if the 70 year old putty is cracking and allowing moisture to come inside, install new cranking mechanisms.
Do not believe that plastic "vinyl trailer park windows" have any business installed in your home. Remember the louvered windows of the 1950's, the vinyl siding of the 1960's and the Tex-cote (20 times thicker than paint) of the 70's to the present? The "NEW" windows will be looked back on, in time, as the scam of the 2010's.
We can completely restore your existing wood windows, both interior and exterior sides, to where one finger will be all you need to open or close them. Steel casement windows are designed to last forever. We can install new glazing putty if the 70 year old putty is cracking and allowing moisture to come inside, install new cranking mechanisms.
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From the highest point on Mt. Washington. Replacing sidewall shingle, restores the turn of the century warmth and traditional beauty to your Craftsman home. Shingle manufacturers specify no more than 40-50 years for a serviceable shingle lifetime, though many, incorrectly, push this shingle specification to 100 years and more.
This 1928 Late Gothic Revival, Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building, HCL #275, was designed by Curlett & Beelman for the talented muralist Anthony Heinsbergen. Each brick had been salvaged from the original Los Angeles City Hall building and brought to this site to re-use, to re-build. Because the brick and cement grout on the tower roof are different substrates, they expand and contract at different rates.
North Gramercy Place in Hollywood, was once a designed turn-of-the-century neighborhood modeled after Gramercy Place, New York. This beautiful 'home' is one of the last on the street, that was once, all spacious traditional California homes. Frank M. Tyler was the architect of this redwood Tutor-Craftsman mansion, with it's quarter sawn burl oak door veneers, it's old growth redwood fascias and it's sidewall shingle.
Villa Aurora, is owned by the German government and staffed by the greatest bi-lingual staff one could ever hope for. The tops and bottoms of doors and windows must be sealed well, from moisture. Even when an alarm system is installed, the holes they drill must be sealed, or it will jeopardize the entire door or window.
All of the wood work and kitchen cabinets, we used 'conversion varnish' rather than the lacquers. The Pella windows and doors were completely disassembled, primed, painted, re-assembled, then reinstalled. The Pella sales rep referred to us, much more work because of how we treated their products. The majority of door and window failures are because they are improperly finished.
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