Well, that's the plan anyway.
I own an old concrete house with steel frame windows. One of the windows had a cracked pane of glass. Below the crack, water had obviously gotten into the frame, because it was starting to rust. Heres what it looked like:
I decided it would be a good idea to replace the glass, sand down, rust proof and repaint the window frame.
Step 1: Measure the window frame. Check.
Step 2: Find a glazier who will cut me a piece of glass to size on a Saturday morning. Check. I found a nice bloke in East Bentleigh, who not only sold me the glass but also a big blob of putty to use in installing it. He flinched a bit when I told him it was a steel frame window and told me that they were more work to deal with than timber frames.
Step 3: Stop by Bunnings and purchase some tools I was missing: a putty knife and a cold chisel. It turns out that a Cold Chisel is not just a band name, it is a type of chisel (unlike a wood chisel) designed for use on hard surfaces such as concrete. Many thanks to dad for that useful piece of info (he didn't know that Cold Chisel was a band, so there was an information exchange there).
Step 4: Remove putty and Glass from window:
This was much harder work than it sounds!
Step 5: Remove all remaining putty, and scrape with paint scraper and metal brush.
Step 6: Overpaint rust with Rust converter
Step 7: Paint with Metal primer, to protect the sections of bare metal without rust:
Now, wait 4 to 6 hours for the metal primer to dry. In this case, that means wait until tomorrow.
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