Date/Time
Date(s) - Wednesday, October 22, 2025
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Bodgery
Categories
Time to tighten up those leaky wood windows and storm windows!
Learn to reglaze a window with Bob!
When: October 22, 2025 (I know its late, but better than January!)
What time: 6:30 – 9:30pm
Class size: 5 max, its hands-on if you want to.
Cost: $30 per person (refunds allowed with 24 hour notice)
Safety equipment will be provided: if you want to bring your own gloves and eye protection that is fine too. Make sure the gloves are proper for working with cut/broken glass (think stained glass style rubberized ones). This is a class for age 18 and up.
Tools being used: For this class all will be our hands and minds. Hand tools for glazing will be provided.
Where: Bodgery Shop Classroom
What we’ll do: This class aims to show you everything you’ll need to know to reglaze your old leaky wood frame windows (sorry no metal ones, that’s a different thing altogether). We will cover removing glazing and old glass, prepping the frame for a new pane, bedding in a new pane of glass and securing it, final glazing of the outside surface, and priming and painting the frame. I will also show a bit about how to repair wooden frames, and how to make new ones. (The frame making is great for making or repairing screen windows too.)
During the hands-on portion we will cover tools, materials, safety (Safety Third!) and where to buy parts or find options for your windows.
Background. About 15 years ago, my family bought an OLD (over 100 year) house in Madison. Why not, I thought, there are only 18 original windows (double hung, single pane 9, 12 and 16 over 1) with existing storms (no screens). That’ll be fun!?!? Honestly, a previous owner ‘renovated’ the second floor’s 10 original windows with crappy replacements — I wish they hadn’t…
I will bring a few of my basement storms that are in various stages of repair/reglazing so we can practice; they are a good size around 24” square. If you have any about that size that you want to bring, let me know and we’ll incorporate them. I’m also building a couple small roughly16 x 30 sized that will be ‘new’ construction (previous owner used a sheet of plastic for a ‘storm’ window).
Instructor info: Bob Meyer is one of the woodshop captains and is in a perpetual state of remodeling/repair of his 100+ year old house. (built in 1911) I’m a firm believer in trying to repair when possible as some of the old ‘stuff’ is pretty high quality that you can’t find anymore. Good, well glazed, and sealed storm windows work quite well.
Contact Bob Meyer on Slack (@bobmeyer22) or at bobmeyer22@gmail.com
Bookings
This event is fully booked.