We’re excited to announce that we have a designer and manufacturer helping us with our sash windows. Bob, president of the Architectural Resource Center, has very kindly offered to help us source supplies for our sash windows. We were blown away by Bob’s generosity and it has truly touched Aimee and I and is one of the few highlights of 2020. We had a lovely chat with Bob on New Years eve and hope to meet him in person later this year.
As a bit of a background, Bob stated off in the military before becoming a wood working lecturer which he did so for 19 years before starting up the Architectural Resource Center in 1985. Since then the Architectural Resource Center has gone from strength to strength and has an impressive list of clients including the The Biltmore Estate, Carnegie Hall and the White House to name a few.
To give you an idea of the hardware required for one double hung window, you need:
- Four pulleys
- Four sash chains
- Four sets of sash weights
- One window lock
- One or two sash lifts
That’s a lot of hardware for a single window and multiplied by eight it adds up quickly and that’s just for the ground floor. The majority of this hardware is brass for longevity.
Thank you Bob for helping us make our windows work!!
yayyyyy! I love that you’re doing your windows this way! I flatter myself to have been a slight influence, with my vehement criticism of gross prefab windows being used in old homes as a shortcut, from the moment I moved to Kingston and saw beautiful old houses marred by them. You won’t regret it! I wish I could be there to watch and learn! xoxoxox
I wish you could be here too! We’ll definitely post lots of pics so you can follow along 🙂