Removing glass from window

jogdish

Hi,
I have a few very old windows, so glass inside the wood frame. I would like to salvage the glass for another project, but the wooden frames are just too far gone to try saving.


Whats the best way to go about separating the frame from the glass without breaking the glass. As best I can tell there is no glue.

MAJJ

jogdish wrote: »

Hi,
I have a few very old windows, so glass inside the wood frame. I would like to salvage the glass for another project, but the wooden frames are just too far gone to try saving.


Whats the best way to go about separating the frame from the glass without breaking the glass. As best I can tell there is no glue.

Prob best to put a photo of inside and out up. Often putty or slim pieces of wood pinned in. I did this before and used a flat head screw driver and a paint scraper to lift out the wood pieces and then glass popped out and I recycled all the glass.

jogdish

MAJJ wrote: »

Prob best to put a photo of inside and out up. Often putty or slim pieces of wood pinned in. I did this before and used a flat head screw driver and a paint scraper to lift out the wood pieces and then glass popped out and I recycled all the glass.

Some pictures:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1chJoeKLSY3rnB1PqpTgResYoJPEn1FKN/view?usp=sharing
and
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OQh7-FSu6dokhs8W0WRijus-MnWrCLwd/view?usp=sharing

colm_mcm

Is there putty holding in the inside?

jogdish

colm_mcm wrote: »

Is there putty holding in the inside?

No idea, won't know till I go at it, waiting to get a plastic cover for the door since it will be a multi day job given my schedule.

Gen.Zhukov

That's putty on the outside (2nd pic, the cracked stuff) Looks like it's ready to fall out pretty easily. Try to take one of the cracked bits out gently and then work on the other bits from the sides ie. not towards the window. Use a flat screwdriver and/or sharp chisel.

antiskeptic

You could be tapping your way all around that window and just one mis-step and you crack the glass.

If it were me (and I did a 1950's one recently this way, and by accident (since I wasn't looking to save the glass), it worked) I'd:

a) pull the window out whole.


b) saw through the frame on four corners to as to leave yourself with 4 pieces of wood detached from each other but still attached to the window

c) lay the window flat on a patio or floor, putty side down

d) take a piece of 2"x1" (maybe 4" long) and lay it on the glass and touching the wood in a corner of the frame

e) start tapping the 2x1, letting the hammer slide along the glass. Sliding along the glass means you won't hit the glass!

d) work each corner a little in turn. You'll find one start letting go. Work up that side and back, gradually loosening it

It might work!