Tools

Window Removal

• Window zipper

• Utility knife
• Utility knife blades
• Numbered die stamps ( to mark for replacement in correct jamb)
• Screw drivers
• Small, flat ply bar

Restoration

• Speed Heater – infrared heating device to remove lead paint safely

• Spray bottle - to mist wood before scraping
• Carbide scraper - for 2” blades
• Profile scrapers & pull-shave scrapers
• 1.5” stiff putty knife for applying glazing putty
• Bastard file to sharpen profile, steel scraper blades
• Orbital Palm Sander, 5” with dust bags or a sanding block [editor's note: Sanding with an orbital palm sander is NOT typically a lead safe work practice.]
• Wood chisels
• Sharpening stone & oil
• Large garbage can (to break glass out of sashes on top of)
• Hammer & nail set
• C-clamps, Quik-Grip Clamps- lots
• 3/4” Bar Clamps- lots
• 2 1/2”, quality, angled bristle, trim paint brushes - one set for oil & one for latex
• Exhaust fan for fumes
• Double filtered face mask with lead cartridges
• Compressor with blower
• Bench grinder with wire wheel and/or cotton buffing wheel to clean-up hardware
• Caulk guns
• Table saw with thin kerf blade or router with slot bit for slotting edges for Dorbin system
• Off-set, dovetail saw
• HEPA vacuum or shop vacuum with drywall filters

Supplies

• Carbide scraper blades. 2” - lots of them

• Profile steel scraper blades with several different profiles (curved etc.)
• 100 & 120 grit, orbital sticky disks with dust holes [editor's note: Sanding is NOT typically a lead safe work practice]
• Abatron Liquid Wood & Wood Epox - two parts each
• Glazing compound & glazing points (no DAP! Use compound with linseed oil)
• #10 galvanized casing/finish nails (used as new mortise & tenon pins)
• Wood screws & cup washers for re-installing parting and finished stop
• Tack cloths
• Acrylic latex, siliconized caulking
• Primer - alkyd oil based
• Paint thinner
• Brush cleaner - the type that spins around
• Acrylic latex paint or oil enamel - color to be determined
• Aerosol spray paint - matte black for pulleys
• Dorbin Metal Window Weather-Stripping System
• Storm window weather-stripping - from Dorbin or hardware store
• Boxes of cotton rags

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Bob Yapp was raised in Des Moines and was an early Sherman Hill rehabber and Sherman Hill Association Board member. Bob is a furniture maker, old house restorer, author, teacher, preservation consultant & hosted the national PBS series “About Your House with Bob Yapp”. Bob lives in Hannibal, Missouri and can be reached at yapperman@msn.com. More detailed information is available on Bob's website, www.bobyapp.com which will be up and running March 1, 2009