She finds she can fix just about anything, though, if she takes a window all the way down to its frame. In the process, she’s run into “all kinds of weirdness,” like a window someone had taken out and reinstalled upside-down. Today, she’s Fairmount’s go-to guru of window restoration. That turned into a job for Pam, and soon word of her skills got around. Not long thereafter, an acquaintance in Fort Worth’s historic Fairmount neighborhood faced a quandary when she discovered she would need to restore the crumbling old windows in her 1920s Colonial Revival. In 2005, she returned to her native Texas to be closer to family. “I’m a restorationist at heart,” she says, so she learned to preserve original materials whenever possible. A confident do-it-yourselfer, Pam figured out techniques as she went, taking apart sash and frames, making the necessary repairs, then putting it all back together again. While residing in Massachusetts, Pam learned restoration techniques on the fly, first in an 1875 church she volunteered to help revive, and then in her own home, a 1930s Dutch Colonial in Boston with 22 windows in dire need of repair.
Pam Rodriguez didn’t set out to restore old-house windows for a living.
Self-taught window restorer Pam Rodriguez works on a home in Fort Worth’s Fairmont Southside Historic District.
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