This month, our attention turns to the repair and energy efficiency improvement of wood windows. When you learn the different parts of a vintage window and how they operate, you can repair them to ...

Q. The windows in our house are old and don't work well. We have to use blocks of wood to hold the lower part up when we want the windows open. A neighbor said this was dangerous, but we don't know ...

Dear James: The wood frame windows in my vintage house are pretty deteriorated. I want to repair them, not replace them, to maintain its character. What repairs to them can I do myself? - Don H. Dear ...

There is something about a sash window, isn’t there? The gentle squeak and heave as you lift it up, the rush of air that greets you. ‘For some reason, houses with them feel like a proper home,’ says a ...