This past winter I worked with the Site Maintenance group at the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum. This article was written for the Museum Times and talks a little about some of the work we completed this winter.
The Site Maintenance team under the direction of Ronnie McEwin have been hard at work performing many of the routine maintenance tasks such as repairing walkways, clearing the locks of debris, clearing walkways of moss, cutting lawns, and moving equipment. The team has also been hard at work doing exterior restoration work on the historic museum buildings repairing doors and windows.
An example of
some of the work done by the team is the restoration of the window sills on the
engine room. Frank Perra and Jim Donaldson took on the challenge to
restore the sills this past winter. The images below illustrate the restoration
work performed on two of the engine room windows. Once warmer weather sets in
the glazing on the window grills will also be replaced by the team which will
complete the restoration of the windows.
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A before and after
view of the window sill. The top shows the condition of the sills after they
were repaired and the bottom shows the decayed sill before restoration.
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The decayed area of
the sill was removed before the new sill cap was applied to restore the sill
to it’s original appearance.
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This is an end view of
the cap that was applied to finish the sill.
The intent was to retain as much of the original sill as possible and
restore it in a way that it looked like the original as well as retain as
much of the original window sill as possible.
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