This commentary is by Alex Tolstoi, a preservation consultant and carpenter who founded Vermont Property Preservation Consultants. Snow is melting, the sap is running, and uncovered heads and hands ...

Maybe it was a flyaway baseball that sailed through a window, who knows or will admit to it? The job of repairing a broken glass windowpane in a family home is a common one. And a broken windowpane is ...

Q: I live in a designated historic district with strict limits on the type of windows allowed. Many windows in my house are losing the edging around the panes. Can this be repaired, or do I have to ...

A few years after their installation, the putty used to hold the glass in the window (glazing) and door frames started cracking and falling away, leaving parts of the glass exposed. What could be the ...

LECOMPTON — Lawrence resident Jim Clark placed a Speed Heater onto a window frame to soften the old, cracked paint and glazing putty that had been applied years ago and then used a scraper to remove ...

After putting away the summer garb and pulling out the winter woolens, getting ready for colder weather usually means prepping the house against leakage. Insulation and caulking are two of the first ...

EVERY now and then you will need to replace a pane of glass in a window or door. Although it can be a fiddly job, this is certainly not beyond the capabilities of most DIYers, so it’s worth tackling ...