Historic and vintage homes are significant to our cultural heritage, yet often lack energy efficiency and comfort. Our mission is to identify key issues, solutions, and best practices when retrofitting much older homes.
Historical Window Energy Efficiency Upgrade Standards?
Historical Window Energy Efficiency Upgrade Standards? My name is David Clark, and I am an artisan/craftsman and the Old House Window Wright, out in Northern California. I'm also a long time home performance enthusiast. I have been rehabilitating and weather-stripping (WS) historic and period houses, especially 'wavy glass' windows, for 30 years. I restore windows to the Secretary of the Interior Standards, plus a little more to better shed moisture, and then I WS them and address thermal…
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Decent overview/intro to retrofitting vintage homes: "Old House Beauty, New House Performance"
http://www.myoldhouseonline.com/profiles/blogs/old-house-beauty-new...
More resources on preservation and energy efficiency:
Some useful articles and links relevant to traditional windows:
What a great group, John! I look forward to many good discussions here.
A really great resource that I came across the other day is from Building America, called "Energy Performance Techniques and Technologies: Preserving Historic...". It has a lot of useful information and links to case studies and other documents that can help a preservation project looking not only to preserve, but to increase the energy performance of the home.
Hi John, Thanks much for joining the group. I hope you don't mind, but I re-posted you question as a discussion forum entry, so that replies can be attached directly to it. Also, photos can be posted there, as well, if you have any photos that might be helpful.
We should probably use the comment wall for general matters pertaining to the group as a whole, rather than specific problems, since these wall comments can't be replied to directly, and can't be collapsed as discussions expand.
Regarding your question, I have no ready answer for that one. However, I'm in the process of recruiting as many folks as I can who are skilled trades people in more traditional building techniques and restoration / preservation to join HEP and this group. So am hoping we'll be able to get you some suggestions as soon as possible. ~John