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Posted by Claude Hopper on September 14, 2008, 6:25 pm
Sam wrote:
> I know that, in theory, glass installed in wooden windows or wooden
> doors is typically held in place either by putty or wooden strips --
> but I have a door leading to a second floor apartment, containing
> Florex glass in the upper half of it, and I cannot figure out how the
> glass was installed. The glass has been broken and needs to be
> replaced, but it's almost as if the glass were somehow built into the
> door! I know it sounds strange, but this is a 125 year-old frame
> building and almost everything in it is strange. My only clue is that
> one side of the frame does have the impression of little headless
> nails spaced every 4" or so, which would suggest that a strip exists,
> but there's no area where any joining has been done.
>
> Ideas, anybody?
>
> TIA.
>
> Sam
125 years old, must be 50 coats of paint on it. Scrape the edges down so
you can see something.
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