I'm convinced as to the merits of linseed paint, on environmental grounds and common sense on what's best for the wood. Bye bye F&B.
However, my old windows have many layers of paint, lead based at the earlier layers. Only the cills have rotted, and the lower joints of the bottom sashes, despite decades of neglect.
Good design helped- the softwood windows are recessed in stone reveals and this protects them from the passing showers of rain to some extent.
So I've used 2 part wood repair resin to fix the minor rot at the sash joints, and patch the cills. I feel a bit guilty about that - the wood repair resins can't be great for the planet, but perhaps overal less damaging than chucking the windows? Probably more extensive repairs are better done with just wood and no nasty fillers.
I don't want to strip my windows back to bare wood all over for several reasons.
1. I'm lazy
2. Erm, I want to retain the historic lead paint
3. only part of the window needed repair, so why paint the whole thing again?
4. concerns about drying time - security is a concern, and it is hard enough trying to work with fast drying paint, let alone linseed based slow drying stuff.
5. I'm lazy, and don't want to paint things that don't need painting.
6. stripping off all the paint surely risks busting something in the process, the lovel old glass for example.
Is there any point just painting the lower sashes and cills with linseed paint, as these components need the best protection?
And will the linseed paint stick to plastic fillers, or will it just peel off?
Cheers
Ian
However, my old windows have many layers of paint, lead based at the earlier layers. Only the cills have rotted, and the lower joints of the bottom sashes, despite decades of neglect.
Good design helped- the softwood windows are recessed in stone reveals and this protects them from the passing showers of rain to some extent.
So I've used 2 part wood repair resin to fix the minor rot at the sash joints, and patch the cills. I feel a bit guilty about that - the wood repair resins can't be great for the planet, but perhaps overal less damaging than chucking the windows? Probably more extensive repairs are better done with just wood and no nasty fillers.
I don't want to strip my windows back to bare wood all over for several reasons.
1. I'm lazy
2. Erm, I want to retain the historic lead paint
3. only part of the window needed repair, so why paint the whole thing again?
4. concerns about drying time - security is a concern, and it is hard enough trying to work with fast drying paint, let alone linseed based slow drying stuff.
5. I'm lazy, and don't want to paint things that don't need painting.
6. stripping off all the paint surely risks busting something in the process, the lovel old glass for example.
Is there any point just painting the lower sashes and cills with linseed paint, as these components need the best protection?
And will the linseed paint stick to plastic fillers, or will it just peel off?
Cheers
Ian
