I broke a window in my door, and my door is old. Its a door with like a bunch of small windows to make one big one. The window i broke is just a bit smaller then a piece of paper. Please help. (I have heard its hard to replace) Some tips on how to replace it please !How do i replace a window on a old door?Home depot 1st. Windoe glass company 2nd. You will need to rmove the wood that is holding the glass (shards) in place. Hopefully it is one of the tick-tack-toe styles that pop all out as one, otherwise you will need to remove the individual wood for than window pane. If you do that, be prepared to replace that piece of wood too, paint it, and fasten in back into place with finnishing nails (once you're done of course)
Any window company sells panes that small. ust tell them the size of the frame and they can cut the glass to fit.
Go to home depot: get a scraper for windor glazing. Get a small tube or can of window glazing. go home and remove the wood, remove the old glazing. It will be hard and brittle. Get all of it out, otherwise you might just break the new pice later or it won't sit right.
Once the old glazing is out, follow the direction for the new glazing. Som ein the wood frame, set the window, some more glazing on the windor where it meets the frame, and then add the wood that you took out (or the new wood).
Be careful hammerring in the wood back into place as you can split it if the nails are on a know or too close to the ends or side.
It's not hard, just takes patience.
If you broke the window and are trying to get away with not telling them, I recommend telling them and giving them your plan to fix it, your pops can help if he isn't going to pummel you.How do i replace a window on a old door?There should be some glazing putty or wood glazing stop on one side of the glass, around the perimeter to hold it in place. Remove the putty and clean up the wood as well as you can. Purchase a new piece of tempered glass the right size, place the glass in the opening and hold it in place with glazing points (small metal fasteners). Then you apply new glazing putty, let it dry and paint it.How do i replace a window on a old door?check to see if the molding is removeable around the opening. If so just remove it with a small pry bar and replace the glass and than the molding. If the molding doesn't remove than try this, with a skill saw cut along the edge of the molding on the one side of the window to be replaced. set depth of saw so you only cut through the one side of molding. do it to all four edges. you will have to remove the last bit of remaining wood in corners with a knife because the circuler saw will not cut all the way. after you get this cut remove what I will call the trim molding and put new glass in opening. seal around the edge of glass with silacone. Now the trim molding if the door gets paint you can use the old molding and fill the seams but you may have to go to the hardwere store and find a molding that matches or is simmular to the original and replace it.How do i replace a window on a old door?You have to replace it from outside. The 4 pieces that hold the glass in are removable, the ones inside aren't.
