Barn swallows... go somewhere else...

[Western]

What about using clear plastic, just long enough to prevent nesting, or buy time to build your windows.

 

[riptides]

What about using clear plastic, just long enough to prevent nesting, or buy time to build your windows.

I am now using a hazy plastic heavy weighted sheet on each window. Last night I saw three taking up residence, so it is best I get off TBN and in the barn.

I use a heavy duty stapler to get the plastic up, I'll take them down when the breeding season is over. But I think they have multiple hatches a season, or that is what it looked like these past few years. I need to check on that.

Unfortunate, I have other pressing needs in the house for carpenter type work. I was thinking about using craigslist for bidding out the window frames. The glass work I can do myself. The frames, I need to last another 100 years. I only have 5 complete ones left in the 100 year old barn. Gotta love oak, and the worksmanship back then.

 

[Western]

I am now using a hazy plastic heavy weighted sheet on each window. Last night I saw three taking up residence, so it is best I get off TBN and in the barn.

I use a heavy duty stapler to get the plastic up, I'll take them down when the breeding season is over. But I think they have multiple hatches a season, or that is what it looked like these past few years. I need to check on that.

Unfortunate, I have other pressing needs in the house for carpenter type work. I was thinking about using craigslist for bidding out the window frames. The glass work I can do myself. The frames, I need to last another 100 years. I only have 5 complete ones left in the 100 year old barn. Gotta love oak, and the worksmanship back then.

Aint that the truth, older it gets, the "purdier" it is

 

[2manyrocks]

People used to pull wooden windows out and donate them to Habit Restore and places like that for resale. If you have a standard size window, could be a few to be had if you call around.

 

[riptides]

2manyrocks Yep. They have not had the number I require. But I got some for another building I have, and made a little more of a donation on the sale.

They are a good organization, and your idea is spot on.

I have even tried a company down south of me that specializes in recovery. We got an original claw foot tub from them and had it refinished. Now that was an install project!

 

[2manyrocks]

Yes, their inventory entirely depends on whomever has done a remodel and donated building materials.

Unless you see some windows on CL, it's a matter of waiting or having them built. Wooden windows used to come off assembly lines at mills. Having them built by hand could get expensive.

If you could tolerate some historical inaccuracy, maybe you could have simple full pane window sash built inexpensively to which you would add the same kind of plastic dividers they put on metal doors/windows today?

The ongoing maintenance problem with traditional multiple pane windows has always been that the window putty dries out and then has to be replaced every so often. I'd think you'd want a design that avoids this.

I'd take the barn swallows over having to reputty a bunch of wooden windows for the rest of my life.