How to Repair Window Glazing - GardenFork

[Music] So today we're in the basement and I cleaned up my workshop table cuz my friend Bob here is an expert on glass he's a Glazer he does this for a living and my windows are in really really bad shape um so he was so nice to come here and show us how to do this because I've tried this and I've screwed it up so really badly I actually I bought this thing it's called a putty Chaser and you put a drill on it and you go and um it destroyed the wood I guess maybe if you were careful you could do a good job but I I did not few things that we need to start with you need to get get yourself a putty knife um I find the ones that are have a little Bend like this work really great um kind of just what I'm I'm used to using um and also the thing about putty knives and to get a really nice job the the key is to have a stiff a stiff putty knife you don't want one that has a lot of flex or bend to it cuz you got to apply constant pressure to the putty as you're as you're running it to make the bead nice and smooth and another thing you need is either a gasket scraper or a putty knife with like a a sharpened Edge just something that you can knock the loose putty out this putty is is is really old and dried out and as you can see it's kind of chipping off and flaking so this is going to be really really easy to clean out just kind of get in there and you want W look at that you want it that's in bad shape you want to go nice and easy because you don't want to break the glass that's in there um and if you do break it it's not a big deal to replace it but if you can avoid it you want to you want to avoid it and when you're scraping this out you got to be careful because if you look there are points that actually hold the glass in it's a little piece of metal like right there little triangles a little triangle and that's called a point so again you just bust all the old putty out and sometimes it goes a little harder than this when this is when you're doing a just a a reglaze like this the most important thing is that you want to get the the the real loose stuff off if if some stuff is is still nice and tight to the wood it's okay to leave it so you don't have to doesn't have to be completely right exactly exactly we actually we call it spot glazing now this is all this is all pretty pretty clean you want to just to make sure you get a nice smooth edge just clean this up just so that you're not going over any loose stuff because then that'll cause the putty at to stick so you want to just get it get all the dust out of there now I brought um putty that I use is called dab take your putty knife and get a handful of putty here and you want to kind of Squish it all in to your hands and get it all nice and soft and pliable it helps if you have the latex gloves that we I forgot to get some but you know and you want to get the putty nice and warm so it's pliable pliable just like kneading bread get it all uh get it all nice and soft and sometimes when you have older putty that's been sitting around your basement for a little while and you want to reuse it you'll notice when you open up the can if air gets into it it starts to dry out if you take a little bit of linseed oil and you don't need much just like a little cat full put a little linseed oil in there and knead it around a little bit that softens it up and makes it nice now what we do is you take the knife and you can hold it and you'll see as I'm doing this I kind of flip it around the knife and I use it every which way but use it the way that you feel the most comfortable with it you take and I actually packed the putty in there first I just go right down the line you don't have to be real neat about it we can clean it up afterwards just pack it in there so it's all nice and into that Groove so you don't have any voids in there and then what I do is I take the knife and if you can see I'm I'm kind of putting this Edge against the wood like this got an angle there and I've got my angle like this with the front edge picked up so that I'm not dragging the putty and pulling it out as I'm as I'm going with it then what I do is I push in tight like this and I find the angle and the way I find the angle that I'm going to I'm going to work at is I go by the sight line on the inside oh where the molding is on the inside because you don't want to go over that sight lineer you're going to see the putty the inside and it kind of doesn't doesn't look real great so what you do is you find your angle apply steady pressure that's the trick steady pressure you just go down and if you push you'll see that you can I'm actually cutting the putty out of the way as I go on both sides and I start to lift my knife when I get to the edge tilt it and then come up like this and nice clean corner and then you could just take your finger and peel that out of there and bingo one side's done nice if you look you got a nice sight line look at the difference from the inside so that you can't see day oo original now the thing is with this putty you could buy all different kinds of putty with this putty once you're done you don't want to uh you don't want to paint it right away the best thing to do is to to let it and if it's cold out it takes longer for the oils to dry out so the best time to really do this is uh early fall or in the summer or late spring when it's a little drier weather and it dries out quicker and then you can paint it do you have to paint it you don't have to paint it if you don't want I've been like I was taught that you kind of rolled the putty up into a long hot dog and then you stuck it in the groove and I've done it that way too now like on this side I'm I'm right-handed so it's easy for me to go like this down this side rather than going like this so now that I'm switching sides I'm going to flip my knife the other way and go the other way wow and I'm just going to do the same thing just backwards that's amazing just like so I've been dreading doing this and then now it's so simple and again the key is having a nice a nice putty knife that's the trick can you get those from any hardware store or is it specialy item um you know what we order these in bulk we get a bunch of them at a time and we get them from a a distributing company called CR Lawrence this way you can either go come from this end and go that way or i' flip my knife around and go that way doesn't really make a difference so when I get into the corner now that I'm I'm ready to mend two seams yep I'll take my knife and I'll put it at at an angle and come up the corner like so y wow and then when I get to this Edge I'll do the same thing oh that's sweet come up come down so to get the g off the glass do you let it dry and then you can use Windex or something you can you can clean it right away if you want um the key is not to push hard with the paper towel against the putty like this putty I mean you can you can run your finger down it or whatever like if you get a little lump like like see I got a fingerprint in it yeah if you just take your finger while the putty's still wet you can get rid of that and the [Music] top so the thing I didn't realize is that you if some of the putty is stuck in there you can leave the old putty in there if it's already if it's adhering well right exactly you just work over it exactly I mean it's the you really to make a nice a nice glaze job and to make it the easiest it is your best bet would be to get all the putty out of there right if if you don't if you don't really if it doesn't if you really want to reglaze all your windows and you you're worried about any old putty being in there and the putty comes out really hard another trick is that you can do is you take either a uh heat gun and a haird dryer will not work so you you you need either a heat have a paint heat gun a paint heat gun or a um a torch yeah something something like this exactly and you just want it you know you put your flame on low and just go back and forth and and you just you just warm up that putty until it gets a little soft then you take your torch away and you can just kind of go ahead and scrape right it right down this is the pain we just did and if you look you can't see any putty coming to the inside so you have really nice sight lines oh yeah yeah cuz on these other ones you can see the putty sticking out and Bobby's does not stick out sign of a professional here so that wraps it up thank you for coming thank you Bobby and it's time now to to go to the barn [Laughter] [Music] again

Channel: GardenFork

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Length: 8min 51sec (531 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 21 2008