Thread: Window glazing in LOS?

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We always called it body filler, pudding or Isopon P38

The glazing stuff has got Linseed oil in it
You like that smell ?

Sorry but I haven't logged on for two days. I used to paint in U.S. for 5 years before getting into the wood floor installation/re-finishing business. On older houses, all the windows on the outside had glazing/putty instead of wood. As it aged, it would get brittle and possibly fall out. By the time that someone would hire me to paint their house, I would have to take a stiff putty knife to remove the old glazing and replace it with new glazing. Dap, in the U.S., has the market for selling glazing at paint stores and places like Home Depot and Lowes. To replace broken windows, you would remove the glazing and metal "push points (they are metal and have one point down and a place just above the point down where you can place your putty knife to push it down into place). You would use two push points per side of window and they are small enought that a small box wouldn't take any space in my suitcase (either would a small or medium sized can of Dap glazing). I tend to bring things from the U.S. that I can't find here, like my De Walt 18 volt cordless tool set (I'm bringing back a cordless nail gun this time). When I had my teak house buiult, the person that put the glass into all the windows did use silicon and I have no problem with those. I guess that its just a difference in what you are used to. When painting, I got used to using glazing. Thanks

No. I wasn't planing to bring back panes of glass to LOS.

Originally Posted by Dean

When painting, I got used to using glazing.

No, you got used to using putty. Glazing is glass, even in the US.

The building that I put the two windows is just a studio house, with a kitchen and bathroom. The 4 windows in the studio section are the crank open type with maybe ten glass slats on metal frames. Not exactly energy efficient but I don't plan on using an air conditioner, so it doesn't really matter. Sorry Marmite but I am in the U.S. and went to Lowes yesterday and bought the small package of "push points" and saw the Dap GLAZING material. It is actually called that. I'll post a picture of the can on this site after I get back to LOS on May 10. I guess you can't be right all the time.

Originally Posted by Dean

Dap GLAZING material

OK, a material used for glazing. Glazing is still glass.

You are stubborn, MD! Like I said, its GLAZING in the U.S. I found another brand, that I bought because it is in a smaller container, and it also says GLAZING. I'll post a picture of it when I return.

Originally Posted by Dean

Like I said, its GLAZING in the U.S.

Sorry, but you're talking out of your arse.

GLAZING

Noun

1. Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.

2. The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.

3. The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.


Verb

1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.


From the Seppo Dictionary of simplified English.

MD, first you say that its called putty and not glazing in both the U.K. and U.S. I knew that you were full of it then but waited until I got to U.S. and saw the containers with my own eyes (obviously, you haven't, at least in the U.S.). I politely corrected you and what is your response? That I'm still wrong! You finally go to the dictionary (probably from the U.K.) and say that I don't know what I'm talking about. The fact is, I can back up my claim with a picture of the product. All you say is that you know what it is called in the U.K. and, even though you have no knowledge of it, you claim that it is the same in the U.S. I somehow miss the logic in your argument and the only post that I will make further on this topic is the picture of the container, which says GLAZING!!! Enough said!