At 05:25 PM 9/12/2005 -0500, Lawrence R Zink wrote:
>Wet your knife, and push the putty into place at the same time. You did
>take the glazing compound in your hand and roll it into a long strand,
>right? Then laid the strand on the mutton of the window. took your putty
>knife and ran it along at an angle and dipped it into water every few
>inches? A pain but easier than silicone and the plastic glazing strip.
>I've done both, and the hardest thing to do is not breaking the glass while
>pressing in the glazing points.
Thanks to all that responded.
While I was standing in line to pay for the new window glass, I said to my
wife, we probably should have gotten 2 pieces, cause we're going to break
this one. :)
Well managed to get the new glazing points in with OUT breaking the glass.
Yes, I did roll it in my hand and push it into the wood frame. Just as
I tried to wipe it to smooth it out and trim it up, it would pull and
tear even wetting it and the putty knife.
The one thing I didn't do was to prime the wood (mutton). This house was
built in 79 and these are the original windows. The wood under the glass
was NOT treated with anything that I could see. I'll do that next time.
Maybe just a bad day. :) But if memory servers me, this is always a
problem.
John
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