Ruth:

Here are two different people in your neck of the woods that might be able to
direct you to a good window repair company.

Ken Epworth
The Barn People
P. O. Box 4
South Woodstock, VT  05071
Phone:802-457-3356
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Rory Brennan
Preservation Plastering
RFD1- Box 772
Putney, VT  05346
Phone::802-387-4623

Hope this helps.

Bryan

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Ruth Barton wrote:

> Hi,  This is something to which I can relate.   I have old windows
> that need some help.  I don't want to put in new windows, there is
> nothing wrong with the ones I have it's just they don't seem to fit
> the holes they are in very well.  I can wiggle them in and out and
> even from side to side quite a bit.  What do I need to do to make
> them fit right again?  Thanks,  Ruth
>
> PS:  Neither my husband nor I are very handy at this sort of thing
> but we can't seem to find anybody in this area who knows even as much
> as we do about fixing old house stuff, all they want to do is rip it
> out and put in new and that's not what I want to do.
>
> At 7:59 AM -0400 4/5/00, J. Bryan Blundell wrote:
> >Met History wrote:
> >
> >>  Architect/coop shareholder who is supervising the restoration (not
> >>  replacement) of the several hundred wooden windows in his coop, at a cost
> >>  comparable to that of getting entirely new wooden windows:
> >>
> >
> >Good choice.
> >
> >Even though the repair costs are comparable to new wood windows the
> >dollar value
> >to the repair compared to the new is most likely greater. The
> >assumption here is
> >that the existing windows are better than replacements for several
> >reasons. The
> >one reason I will bring up now is the idea of wood being a food
> >source for decay
> >fungi.
> --
> Ruth Barton
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> Westminster, VT