Restoration
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For Central United Methodist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee we were asked to restore their stained glass windows and to cover them with Lexan. Their stained glass windows had been repaired previously many times. Sometimes the broken panes were repaired with stained glass that did not match in color or texture. We contacted a glass manufacturer who made a very close duplicate of the original glass. We replaced the mismatched glass with our new glass. All the windows were dismantled; each piece of glass was cleaned; and the windows were re-assembled with new lead that matched the original in size and shape. The steel frames were removed; sandblasted to bare metal; and primed with black paint. Some of the steel frames had rusted completely away. For those frames, we fabricated new frames that matched the originals. The beautiful wood frames had settled and pulled apart to where daylight could be seen through the frames. We bolted them back together; scraped off the layers of old paint; restored the rotted areas; re-installed the stained glass and then painted the frames. As the final step, we covered the windows with Lexan. 
 

Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN	Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN	Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN
Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN	Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN	Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN
Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN	Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN	Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN
Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN	Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN	Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN
Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN	Central United Methodist Church Knoxville, TN