Togalosh
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I need help & advice to help with getting my embarrassing porch sorted out. I want to replace our existing god awful mess (that we inherited I hasten to add) with an oak design along the same basic shape (I know it'll be modern looking & I love victoriana but it'd look pretentious to do something flamboyant in our case). So I've a few snags to sort one being not being able to take a low enough res pic that are of quality !
1) The window above the door needs to be double glazed & I was thinking about making one with an oak frame to match the porch but how do you know when a single piece of shaped wood will do or when a curved piece needs to be made in sections? Is it because the end grain weakens the section? Looking at the pics below would you do this triangle in 3 pieces (2 being curved) or 5 or more?
..however the existing pane is mounted on the inside & there's a really wide section of wood on the outside of that..if I could take that off & reduce it's width to allow for the thickness of the double glazed pane but would this be nailed/screwed in ? & what's the chance of a 100 year old piece coming out in tact?.. I guess could copy that piece.
2) The internal decorative door & window frame/coving has been butchered by some 3 fingered DIYer & drives me to distractioin while watching telly - how/where can I get it matched up with new ones? I do not have a spindle moulder or moulding planes (or the skill or the time to learn how to use moulding planes .. & I am trying to stay at the top of that slippery slope too !).
3) Glazing for windows & doors: I was going to just rebate the back & fix the glazed panel in with a bead with EDPM gasket. Do I need to worry about water pooling at the bottom of the pane. Old glass panes are held in with a bead of angled putty but a rebate will have some 90 deg face even if I bevel most of it.
4) Doors: how do you make doors that do not twist? ( & don't say by them from Wickes)..I want the doors to match the frames & so I have to make them. I have a thing for doors I really would like to make a lot more & I have read up on them a bit but they only say what to do & nothing I can recall about what not to do.
As ever your help is greatly appreciated.
Togs
