How to replace glass in a timber porch? Putty Job for a Timber Porch, Window and glass repairs
March 16, 2023
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For a timber framed window or door, or a porch, if the glass was broken, you need to do a “putty job” to repair your broken glass panes or replace a glass. Left: a linseed oil based putty; right: a putty knife. (Copyrights reserved by tgm.net.nz)
Steps of A Putty Job, window and glass repairs
In general, you must follow the following steps :
Clean and remove the broken glass and hardened putty from the window/door frame rebate
Remove any of sprigs or glaziers’ points along the rebate of a window
Put back putty in place of the rebate
Place the glass pane onto the back putty in rebate of the frame, press the pane of glass into that bed of back putty ensuring that it is evenly bedded in and the putty is squeezed up and down between the back of the rebate and the glass pane.
drive or shoot glazing sprig/glaziers’ point just into the bottom of the rebate to ensure the glass pane is held in position
Apply more putty by your thumb in front of the glass pane, and smooth off to an even slope, press the pane to back putty side and get a firm density.
Remove the surplus putty from the inner face of the glass and betweem glass pane and rebate frame rebate. Putty job is completed and the next job is painting job. Below pictures are the real putty job done today by our glaziers.
Step 3. Apply back putty in rebate (copyrights reserved by tgm.net.nz)Step 5: shoot sprig in bottom of a rebate in front of pane (copyrights reserved by tgm.net.nz)Step 6. Apply more putty by your thumb in front of the glass pane, and smooth off to an even slope, press the pane to back putty side and get a firm density. Comparison: Top part: putty was smoothed off and the bottom part: not yet smoothed off (copyrights reserved by tgm.net.nz)This porch has 6 broken glass panes to replace with putty job. The rebates and frames are not squared. The rebate depth is not enough. We have made templates for the toughened stipulite glass panes to fit the non-squared frames. Pictures shows the porch without the glass panes before we install the glass (copyrights reserved by tgm.net.nz)All surplus putty has been removed and smooth off. The toughened stipulite glass has been installed in place. Putty job is completed. (copyrights reserved by tgm.net.nz)Viewing from inside of porch: glass panes are in positions and glazing job is done. It shows to you that the surplus putty of back putty between frame and glass pane now is hidden and can’t be seem. (copyrights reserved by tgm.net.nz)
Do you have broken windows and glass doors? Do you need Window and glass repairs? For your timber windows, the putty job is required to fix your timber-based broken windows and doors? Call us at: 0800-00-GLASS, 09-5769060, visit our website:https://tgm.net.nz, email us:info@webmaster
