Glazing windows in place

go all right so uh this is gonna be a full length instruction video on glazing windows what you need to look out for and uh techniques we're gonna go over a lot of things and put it into one little uh video so that you could theoretically take this watch this and and do it yourself even if you had no experience in glazing prior to this um basically where we're starting out this this window has already been deglazed and this is this area here is called the glazing rabbit uh if this is a wood window that you're trying to glaze you want to stay pay real close attention to your edges because as you you go to tool you're glazing that's going to dictate your straightness is you're going to ride your knife along this edge so if you have gouges and things like that you want to repair that first before you go ahead and begin your glazing process these have already been treated they've been primed and they're ready to go so i'm going to go over a couple things the first thing that you need to do is actually look at your glazing and i'm going to show you an example of inconsistencies that you'll get in a glazing product if you can get a little close-up view on that that's got about a quarter inch of oil on the top of it and if your glazing is in this condition you're not using this today you're most likely not even going to use that tomorrow uh you're going to have to empty out the entire continents of this bucket mix it up by hand and let it dry for a couple days before you can use it so other times you get glazing that is will have a hard crusty part on the top and that will have to be removed before you you can use it this this is about ideal um you want your glazing to be more or less kind of like a pizza dough consistency and you need it in your hands before you go to use it and you see the uh you know the smoothness that's in the glazing uh you want that to be real smooth if you have any kind of lumps you're gonna have to work those out before you start otherwise you're working against yourself i mentioned you know sometimes i'll have a hard crusty part over the top you need to get rid of that before you start glazing uh if you try to mix that in with your glazing it'll be about like trying to tool something with rocks in it and you're gonna you're gonna really wish that you didn't do that so into the glazing rabbit the first process is what we call loading loading the glazing and seeing that the window's in place gravity's working against you so you have to do small portions at a time and i'm going to do this side so you can see this technique basically i'm taking my my pointer finger to push it in and i'm rolling rolling my finger just a little bit at a time all right as soon as i'm right-handed i'm going to start in this corner to work back this way doing the same technique it helps to be a little bit ambidextrous you know uh when i get to this side i'll show you i can do that with my left hand too it's just a little bit a little bit more difficult the main point on this is just to get it just to get it in place you don't want to overload and i'll give you an example you know if you if you're putting like that much glazing into that that position that's going to be a problem for you later when you come back to tool it so you don't want to use you know more than you need to but you want to have enough in there to where you got something to work with you don't have low spots and what um what i'm going with uh what what you you want to go with when you glaze you can see that the glazing rabbit the interior portion you don't want your glazing to be pushing out any further than that you know because otherwise you could see that from the inside and it looks really ugly so that that point right there on the inside is actually what is going to dictate your angle of the glazing right there so you want to keep that in mind that's that's your benchmark that you're going to and realistically most times you want to be slightly behind that and the reason for that is that when you come back to paint this your paint is going to touch the glass so and you're going to need to do that and we'll talk a little bit about that here as we get closer to the finished product so loading and you know you're going to develop your own little uh methods to this your own dexterity you're going to kind of have to because everybody's hands a little bit different and what makes sense to me might not make sense to you as far as your method of loading the window just as long as you accomplish it all the same you know that's the important part doesn't have to be you know nice or pretty it's just you want to get this done as quickly as you possibly can because you got a lot more windows to glaze and each time i mean each step of the the process you want to try to do as as efficiently as you possibly can you know because all this adds up a couple seconds here a couple seconds there when you times that by a hundred windows or so it it really adds up so the main point get it in there so that you got something to work with all right so once once you have it more or less loaded i'll come back with my knife and kind of push it down now the the reason for this is to work out any voids that might be behind there but also to remove the excess glazing so it'll be easier for you to tool and i'm just letting gravity do its thing as far as i got my hand here to kind of catch what i can i'm not too worried about those little pieces falling down there's not much you can do about it when you're glazing in place like on a bench on a flat surface you're not going to have that problem you'll find that to be a lot easier but when you can when you can glaze a window in place like this you're gonna you're gonna be equipped to glaze in any condition and again i'm doing this quickly is pushing it and removing any excess glazing and if you have points where you look like you need to add a little glazing you know you could do that too say if this was low at this point you know you come in and just push in a little bit more okay so once you've reached that point again uh that that interior portion of the glazing rabbet is your benchmark that that you're running with and this is all uh gonna be done by eye you know there's no jig or anything that's gonna keep your your knife you're gonna have to do this yourself and it's gonna take a pretty decent amount of pressure whenever i can use both hands i actually do and my main pressure point is up against uh this edge of the blazing rabbit you know but i'm also pushing against the glass pretty hard don't be afraid of that now obviously gravity's doing this so this is going to be the last portion that we're going to deal with because otherwise you know you would just mess it up when you go to cut your top now here's another thing when you're glazing in place that you have to be aware of you have obstacles you have obstacles all around you so you can't go from corner to corner you have to develop the skill of meeting it in the corner okay so don't be afraid when when you come into situations like this because it's really easy to fix and you want to just get away any uh marks of that transition you know more or less you're trying to keep this straight now i'm going to detail this at the end of the glazing process so there's certain parts that you know might not be absolutely perfect right now but i'll show you a quick way to deal with that here in a second the great thing about glazing is you've got a long time before this dries so you know if you don't get it right right away don't worry about it you can mess with it as long as it takes but the object of the game is to lessen that time period obviously you know you want to get it get it presentable as quickly as possible but it's not like certain products like concrete or bondo or something like that that's working to dry as you're using it this you've got probably you know at least a week before this sets up now let's you know kind of step back and get a visual because sometimes you know your lines can can go a little wobbly so you want to get them pretty well straight you know they're not going to be absolute perfect but uh you know you don't want it to look like it's like the guy who did it was drinking the night before so once you get to this point and you can use your gloves i i should have showed that i had a little rough edge right here and and i just kind of took my gloves and and did that to take that out you don't want to you don't want to touch this glazing any more than you have to as far as you know putting force because it's really fragile at this point um so i think i got a little spot here i want to detail real quick first it didn't look very straight [Music] now at this point the glazing's got linseed oil in it and you can see all over the glass you've got all this these smudges so i'm going to take just a regular old brush you don't need a nice new brush you see how that the hairs are kind of even sticking out on the side don't worry about it rainbow that this is commercial whiting it's basically uh calcium carbonate and with one dip into the uh powder here i go across and i'm hitting that area right next to the glaze and then i'll go ahead and just kind of hit the field the reason i hit the field sometimes you get this glazing on your gloves and and you rest it and it'll it'll have a smudge on the glass that one didn't work out but the the reason that i'm cleaning this right now a lot of people take the approach of coming back later with windex and a paper towel or something like that that's that's a huge waste of time and resources and money look how easy this comes out and you can clean it right now while the glaze is still wet if you try to do this with windex and a paper towel you would bump into that glazing and you'd have to come back and fix all that i can actually brush the glazing with this and get all the smudge off now you're going to see when i when i do this in the corners it's going to make a few little dimples and once i get it all clean i'll show you that but i'm not worried about it i'm not not even remotely concerned about that because real easy to come back and fix you want to get all that excess off you know if this was something you were doing in a shop on a flat table you could actually just reuse a lot of this powder now the important thing about getting this off right now these oils the next step that we're going to do we're going to prime this glazing after it dries you don't want the oils on the glass to be interfering with that adhesion from you know your primer to the glass this is what is going to create a seal once you put the primer over the glazing and you're just going to barely touch the glass with that so that water will not be able to seep in behind where the glazing is it it'll keep it flowing off it also creates a nice clean line i've seen painters come and they get half of it on the glass and then some of it doesn't touch this glazing left exposed will become real ugly and you're never going to be able to clean it if you're not if it's not all the way covered with paint so uh we got to prep it that you know the purpose of cleaning the glass is to prep it for that stage so i i talked a little bit about these marks you can kind of zoom in and see the paint marks there and up up there from the uh the paintbrush looks pretty ugly so what i do i carry just a little bit of it doesn't even have to be clean paint thinner just a little bit in a bucket here and your knife i'm going to dip that in i'm going to kind of re-detail my corners the two things with glazing that people you know are really going to look for is nice straight lines and nice clean corners so you see how that took all the the marks off and that that thinner will dry and it does it real nice and smooth i find that uh in detailing it i will use just a little bit of thinner but for the rest of the process i don't i've seen people use thinner throughout the whole process i think that's kind of kind of a waste and not necessary my hand shaking a little bit i didn't have enough coffee this morning so you see also you got brush marks from where i did that with the brush and realistically that's fine but if that was a concern for you and you wanted to take it out you see how that fat thinner just really makes it smooth um any kind of like honeycombed areas or anything like that you can just come through and detail and that's really all it is to it that window is ready i can go on to the next one uh if i wasn't doing the film right now i'd probably load both of these at the same time so that that you're doing that same process the more times you switch your process you're actually you know you're wasting a little bit of time uh the only other thing i really wanted to mention is is that as you're detailing your pressure is a lot different so i talked about you know when we were actually cutting the glazing you you saw me almost use two hands to to apply the pressure this you want to do very lightly you know because that that paint thinner actually you know it cuts down the friction so much that you could you could really easily damage this so you want to leave that alone tell all your guys not to touch it and uh see if they listen but from start to finish that's about the length that that the amount of time that it's going to take the process um checking your glazing is really important checking your glazing rabbit is is really important but uh if if you follow those steps you're going to develop your own dexterity you know like i said the first time you ever do this it's not going to go this easy obviously it's going to take you about 10 of them before you're really comfortable with it but um you know you can you can do this as many times as you need to in order for it to come out the way you want it you know it's not a product that if you do it once wrong you're stuck you could just pull it all out and do it again if you had to so um don't be intimidated by the process a lot of people don't know how to do this but it's as you can see it's actually pretty simple as long as you follow those those basic guidelines and and know what to watch for and know what uh um you know your potential problems are gonna be so one of the things like uh with this product this says on the label to not apply it when it's over 90 degrees outside in catoola that means that you want to do this before lunch you know because almost every day it gets to be 100 degrees and you're going to see why if you try to do it it becomes like a goo you can't you can't work with it like this it's not like pizza dough it's more like you know pancake batter so and if you don't know what pizza dough is if you never made pizza you should try it's pretty simple anyway that's all there is to it uh hope that helps and uh we'll get with you on the next one

Channel: dooey dessimal

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Keywords: #windowglazing #windowrestoration #historicrestoration, glazing windows

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Length: 20min 55sec (1255 seconds)

Published: Fri May 01 2020