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Replicating Old Bay Window Moldings and Replacing Them
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" All right so we're back at our little remodeling project here in Melrose Massachusetts on our 1921. Dutch gambrel styled house and this is a house that has you know sheltered families and seen a lot of people through here but it never has had a real face lift on the outside. So some of the things that we've been dealing with -- include some of the really important components of the house the trim the porch ceiling. The porch deck peace in the windows in particular we've already replaced. Many of the windows on the house with the Bob product made locally by Harvey industries which is the wood double hung sash with aluminum cladding on the outside but here on the front of the house we've got a couple of projecting bay windows or Oriel says they're often called this is a three. A three sash. Bay. And there's another -- just like on the other side. And the big problems that we had here was cold air infiltration not just from where the windows -- but from the whole structure or frame of this little projecting bay so we had to look at. You know. How best to repair that. And in fact what we did was we had some of the local carpentry. Fellows and contractors called a -- here in -- who came out essentially took it all apart. Found a way to insulate and restructure all of that and then of course the next problem that we had was. How do you re trim and when you can't find the kinds of moldings that they had 85 years ago and for that we turn to our friends from Forester. Who have essentially come out and reproduced the moldings that we had here take a look."
" Well the problem is on these older houses. Moldings like this you can't find him in Colombia -- today. So what they have to but we have to do is re manufactured this piece. And in the way to do that is I use this this needle gauge. And I pressed up against the board like this. And get the profile. Very carefully precedent. The next step is I take take the needle gauge are laid out a piece of graph paper. And and I take the take my pencil. And Trace it out. Like get get the profile pretty good. And it's ability a little bit try to get the dimensions. As to the thickness. And the width of the piece. In the next step from there is we will take this piece and -- run it through our catalog and see if we have anything that matches it. If it if we don't have anything that matches and the next thing is the we'll scan this into the computer. And guys move next we'll Trace this out will make tonight. And the knife goes in the machine. One pass. It comes out and it's -- done this nail it up."