Part 1: Take one very old window…
I saw a picture of this window after trawling the local “stuff for sale” website and immediately saw a project which would turn it into a great little hot-house for our patio or balcony.
Hundred years or so of Norwegian winters takes its toll!
Many older windows here in Norway are double glazed but not how you imagine them to be. Windows were made with the normal outside set of glazing panes and then another set were added to the interior (called ‘secondary glazing’ in the UK). This was often done years afterwards to upgrade very old windows.
This window is around a hundred years or so old and may have had the second set from the start. I’ll find out more once I start working on it.
Wonderful big dovetail joints holding this very heavy window together.
I plan to turn this one into a greenhouse by repositioning the inner windows and fixing them open at 90 degrees. The whole thing will then sit on a plinth to raise the height a little and then go against a sunny wall we have. A couple of infill side pieces and a piece of twin-wall polycarbonate to form a roof and we are good to go.
Of course the paint is flaking off in large pieces and the outer windows don’t close properly and the glazing putty is falling out. A little TLC is in order first….when I get a moment!
Stay well
Ian
