I've been Glazing for over 30 years and I've never seen a window like that ! Wow Counter balance with lower pocket for sash to slide into . Super cool old technology.
Journeyman Glazier, 38 years of experience. Yes, I have seen many of these hide-away window sash. Change out the ropes, sand the paint off the entire frame and sash. Apply linn seed oil to the wood everywhere except the "run-channels" use bar soap there and enjoy for another 100 years....
Glazing is just to much where I'm at in south Carolina, you're talking 30 years of painted shut windows 😑 nope, I rather demo, frame out a rough in and put a new window, drywall trim and paint before I start cracking every piece of glass 😂
That's what you call a real old school window. That's like something that will be in your Grandma's house. For when she puts the pies in the windowsill to cool off.
I do work in houses and love to see the action inside the walls. Just a big weight on each side. For the fishermen, these weighs are great for alligator fishing if you set lines.
@@Warez556 Milwaukee is filled with old Victorian style house but they update most of all windows so all we see is the pulley and weights left in the wall. Its sad
My house on the Obersalzberg had a big window that would retract down into the wall and open the living room up to the outside world, this type of design has been around for many decades!!
Seen those before, they are awesome!!! The coolest windows I've ever seen were in an episode of ask this old house.. they went to this old house that was built like late 17, early 1800s, and then it was added on to again later on. Anyway, they had double sill windows, w sets, and the bottom sash done this exact thing, it sunk down into the wall, the top window actually lifted up and in, and there was a hook on the ceiling in the room that would hold the window up .. fell in love with them immediately. I've got screen shots of it on my phone, I plan on building a set of them eventually and installing them into my A frame cabin.
That's old school it's so you can bring furniture in the window without destroying it or removing it there's also lead weights in the walls the operate the pulley system without dropping the windows freely
😂 i thought the same thing.. unless we can't see the gap where our hands would go to lift it up.. I don't see how it goes back up.. plus.. that has to be bad for the wall when it rains.. can't really caulk it or weather strip it cause of the moving mechanism..
Looks like water damage waiting to happen. Id think sliding and hiding them upward would be more beneficial but maybe the original maker didnt have any latches to keep em up 🤔 I love recessed doors these as well.
The rope is right there. Might be tough to see but look at the top of the frame when she’s pushing the window down and you’ll see the pulley turning and the rope running over it.
😂😂😂😂 they don't you have to replace everything every so often with water resistant material but that's the building style of the early 1930s and up to about mid 70s because of the mold and other hazardous but id imagine that there's ways to invest making a more modern permanent one that would actually work without risking water damages
