Introduction to Window Repair: 2026 Old House Care Workshops

Learn about window anatomy, repairing rotted wood, glass replacement, reglazing, and sash repair with instructors Ray Tschoepe and Andrew Staples.

The class will be held at Cliveden in the Barn: 98 E. Cliveden Street, 19119. For directions, see https://cliveden.org/visit/.

The class fee is $10 and online registration recommended as space is limited: bit.ly/house-care-workshops-2026

Instructors

Ray Tschoepe
Ray earned his master’s in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania and has worked in the field for more than 30 years – first as an independent restoration contractor and then as Director of Conservation at the Fairmount Park Conservancy. There, Ray and his staff worked to conserve about 20 eighteenth and nineteenth-century buildings. Since 2000, Ray has also taught a core course in Building Conservation in the historic preservation program at Bucks County Community College. He is also a regular contributor to Old House Journal.

Andrew Staples
Andrew is the Conservation Supervisor at the Fairmount Park Conservancy. Prior to joining the Conservancy, he spent five years working as a contractor in his father’s plumbing and heating business. Having been brought up around the trades, he developed an interest in the history and development of construction techniques and technologies.  Andrew holds an MA in Archaeology of Buildings from the University of York in the UK.