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Historic Sites:
Window Preservation Guidance
Maintenance and Preservation
- Sash Window Clinic: Maintaining the mechanics of double-hung windows.
- Seven Ways to Weatherize: Quick guide on how to weatherize your home for the long winter months.
- Getting the Lead out of Windows? How to deal with lead paint issues on old windows.
- Saving old Windows: Reputty, reglaze, repaint and repair guide.
- Temporary Window Vents in Unoccupied Historic Buildings How to preserve your options while awaiting a vacant buildings restoration.
- Aluminum Replacement Windows for Steel Projecting Units with True Divided Lights and Matching Profiles How to find solutions for preserving or replacing steel windows.
- Is Stained Glass Protective Glazing Necessary? Overview on the do's and don't's of stain glass preservation.
- Interior Storm Windows: Magnetic Seal Information about interior storm window as an option.
- Window Muntin Identification Guide Quick guide to muntin profiles from the 1740s to the 1930s.
Repair or Replace
- The Right Thing. What are the facts and myths of the replacement vs. restore historic windows debate.
- Wood Windows: Repair or Replace? An illustrated real-world case study on the pros and cons of window replacement.
- What Should I Do About My Windows? How to evaluate air lose through your historic wood windows.
- Creating Windows of Energy-Saving Opportunity. Article that suggests that wood windows have a higher energy performance than new vinyl windows.
- Window Restoration: Always an Option The benefits and economies of restoring pre 1940 windows.
Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation
1063 South Capitol Way, Suite 106
Olympia WA 98501
Phone: 360-586-3065
Fax: 360-586-3067