Restoring Old Windows Lead Paint

Restoring old windows can be a pain.

Restoring old windows lead paint.

You can remove the lead paint yourself but you will need to take special precautions to protect yourself your family and the environment from lead contamination. Before you get out the heat gun and sandpaper however find out if any old paint on the window contains lead. Strip the old glazing and paint as required to remove the old glazing points small pieces of metal placed every six inches or so in the frame to hold the glass firmly to the sash. We wouldn t do the restoration ourselves no time or inclination.

Stay lead safe while restoring windows any house built before 1978 likely contains lead paint. 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. A confident do it yourselfer pam figured out techniques as she went taking apart sash. Heritage restoration has devised this lead safe operating system for historic weight and pulley windows.

Cobra speedheater faster and smaller than the original speedheater this new addition to the line up is great for the small parts on windows like muntins. Normally i would look into restoring them but the fact that they have lead paint freaks me out since we have a toddler. We use the accurate weather stripping system that eliminates friction on the stops and. Lead is a dangerous substance that.

It was durable and marketed as a premium paint and so homeowners happily coated the exterior and interior of their houses with it. The points are covered by glazing compound. We have been looking into replacing our drafty old windows mainly because they have lead paint. Any home built before 1980 is at risk for containing lead and the older the home is the more likely it is that there is lead paint.

The sharp tip of a paint scraper can be used to carefully remove the points without damaging the glass. In this video we show the step by step process of restoring an old window. Part 1 focuses on removing the old paint and putty with the silent paint remover.