What each window went through
Every opening on the house got the same sequence, in the same order. Skipping a step is how a window peels again in three summers.
- Wash — pressure wash and let the wood dry fully before any scraping
- Scrape — all lifting and failed paint off the sash, trim, and sills
- Detail sand — feather every edge so the new coats lay flat
- Glaze — cracked and missing glazing compound cut out and replaced
- Prime — oil primer on every bare or repaired surface
- Paint — two finish coats, brushed by hand in two colors with clean cut lines
- Storms and screens — each piece sanded, primed, painted, and spray-glazed off the house
The eave bracket nobody makes anymore
On a nearby Cleveland Heights home in the Ambler Heights historic district, one of the decorative eave brackets had rotted through. Replacement stock does not exist for a hand-cut 1920s profile, so the crew traced the original from the lift, cut new blanks in our shop to match the template, then primed and painted the rebuilt bracket to match the rest of the eave line.
It is the kind of detail a replacement-window company would tear off. It is also the detail that makes the house look like itself.
What this work costs
We publish our numbers. Every price below is built from the actual hours our crews log on Cleveland Heights restoration work, and it is the same price whether you count it on this page or get it in a written estimate. Materials are billed at cost on top. A repaint-only window is listed for comparison, because the honest first question on any older home is which one you actually need.
