In a message dated 4/14/2000 6:46:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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<< 1) What maintenance?
        Broken sash cord, baseball through the window pane, or lower sash no
    longer operating smoothly?
 2) After how many maintenance occurances do the screws go into the same hole
 and still work.
        How about once every 10-20 years for one of these sorts of problems?
 3) How many of these olden days windows had jamb weatherstrips.
        Now you're talking about an ideal-ideal situation.  The former Walter
Estate      in Joisey City, and the fabulous Summit Old Town Hall both had
routed      jamb and meeting rail weather-strip as retrofits.    However, the
mecum,      Mead & White JJ Goodwin Res  (now US Trust Co on W 54 St) in NYC
had         its stops set with screws and finishing washers (a condition not
previously      observed by the undertyped) and I seem to remember seeing
some old        house out here in Mogulland similarly equipped.
 4) Why do the modern day window archeologists discover that all the interior
 stops, reguardless of screws or not, are nailed in.
        No question that the stops are in fact nailed in 99.9% of the time.
However,        "all" suggests "each and every one without exception."
 5) When using jamb weatherstrip just what is the function of the interior
 stop.
        The same as any other molding-- covers up a (potentially) ugly joint,
in this         case between the sash/jamb/weatherstrip; besides, the stop
was there       before the routed weatherstrip.
 6) How many of you are willing to pay the required amount of hard currancy to
 rebuild the jambs to accomodate screwed stops.
        Nobody's willing to pay for nothin', including this impoverished
architect       paying for new routed to replace the previous.  So what else
is new?
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Ralph