Restoring Old Wood Trim

They can easily be taken apart to insert new rails or muntins cross pieces separating the panes.

Restoring old wood trim. They can last 200 years. Wood window restoration and repair is easier than you think. Pam rodriguez didn t set out to restore old house windows for a living. Soften old paint along the edges of trim and stained baseboards with alcohol.

Just buy the stain and apply but take it from the furniture makeover experts of hometalk much can be done to enhance the staining process. First make sure you sand the wood even if you don t see any sort of finish or top coat. In the case of visible grain woods such as stained or sealed redwood. Wood finisher john thomas is doing just that at the 1904 brownstone in brooklyn new york owned by karen shen and kevin costello.

If you have an old house blessed with artful millwork you can always breathe new life into it with proper cleaning or refinishing methods. A rag wrapped around a putty knife lets you scrub the trim without slopping alcohol onto the wall. Old wood windows were made to be repaired. While residing in massachusetts pam learned restoration techniques on the fly first in an 1875 church she volunteered to help revive and then in her own home a 1930s dutch colonial in boston with 22 windows in dire need of repair.

Broken parts can be remade or whole sashes can be duplicated. A confident do it yourselfer pam figured out techniques as she went taking apart sash. One of the trickiest parts of a wood restoration project is finding stain to match. You can pry off a small piece of trim and ask the paint department to mix stain.