At last! What a refreshing and lovely experience finding Cleary and Son. After trekking around to several specialty lumber shops in the area in search of parting beads that were not just flimsy pine and receiving blank stares and substandard wood, I finally made it to Cleary and Son. Rachel knew exactly what I wanted and had several sizes in stock. Let me tell you the quality of this wood is incredible. After buying flimsy pine beads elsewhere I couldn’t believe the difference in these cedar beads. I will be back to get more supplies as I restore 16 centurion windows. Trust me you only want to restore windows one in your lifetime. Cedar on the left from Cleary and pine… read full review
Feb 2024
5.0★★★★★
We have an 1870's house in the historic part of Concord and all of the upstairs windows were original and needed a lot of TLC. Rather than replacing all of them (we could not use replacement windows, but would need to remove all of the window structures and do a complete replacement with wooden (2 over 2) windows to reflect what was there, we decided to look at window restorers. We found Kim Cleary last year and had his crew remove the windows, bring them back to the stop and rehab them completely in just under 6 weeks. They turned out beautiful and we are really happy with the results. We also noticed that the restored windows are so solid, that we are able to lower… read full review
