Floor Restoration

• Reclaimed tobacco barn oak floor

• Restoring 80-year-old oak floor

• Restore and repair an old wood floor with a vinegar pickling stain

• Cleaning and refinishing

• Matching stair treads

Door Repair & Reclamation

Whether you just need hardware repair and cleaning or for it to be replaced entirely, I do both.  To the left is one image of a hinge mortise (carve-out) that has been filled to prepare for re-hinging where the old mortise was shot. Hinges can be refit as seen here.  The same holds true if your doors have become out of shape and need some re-working for them to fit and engage properly -- you don't need to replace the whole door.  Even if your door has failed joints (like in some of the windows in the photos below), these too can be repaired and your doors can be saved.  Locks can often also be reworked and cleaned for them to properly engage. Old doors can be a tricky to work with and re-fit, call me for your reclaimed door installation. 

Window Restoration

Window restoration can add value to your home by preserving quality original features, improving some aspects of energy efficiency and by saving on replacement costs that may be unnecessary.

• Re-glazing & Glass Replacement — many wooden windows have glazing putty that retains the glass in the window sash, and sheds water from the glass.  When this putty fails, water gets into the window parts themselves and can cause window failure.  The water can even seep though the window entirely and damage other areas of your house if failed glazing has gone without repair for too long.  Not to worry, glazing repair is part of regular maintenance on your windows and is one easy way to repair an otherwise good window.  Above is an image of failed glazing.   Glass replacement is also an option.  Whether you simply have a broken pane in need of replacing, or you have a window into which you're interested in having some antique glass installed — either can be done.

• Joint Reconstruction & Reinforcement — Sometimes the joints that hold wooden window parts together fall apart.  These joints can be repaired however, and I have the experience to do it.  Above you see an example of some old windows in need of serious attention.  Since the windows were curved and not the simplest fix, we were able to save some resources on this project by reconstructing the joints of the windows without replacing entire parts (an option that was not an objective of this project).  As you can see, more than one type of material was employed to achieve this stabilization and it cannot be described as pretty -- that's where paint came in in this case.  The project was at an old farm house in Sonoma, California and I restored over 25 windows there.  That comes out to over 50 sashes in this case. 

• Wood Patching — sometimes a piece of your window, door or trim is torn or rotted out.  A wood patch, or a Dutchman, can be used to fill these areas.  See above for pictures of wood patching.  Similar patches can be done on doors of both paint and stain grade.