Pozzi Wood Windows forklift operator Don Heinze showed up for work Wednesday thinking he was going to move crates. Instead, he got five minutes of fame.

”It’s interesting,” he said, as he sat parked in his forklift inside the Pozzi factory in Bend and waited for his cue.

With the nod of his head, Russell Morash, executive producer and director of the Emmy award-winning television home improvement program ”This Old House,” signaled Heinze to drive by, and the film started rolling.

Heinze beeped the horn on his forklift twice, and drove around the corner where Rick Hetherington, vice president of Pozzi Wood Windows, and Norm Abram, master carpenter and co-host of the show, began walking toward a row of packed sheets of glass shipped in from Fresno, Calif.

Barely audible over the clanks and bangs and hammering in the window factory, Hetherington pointed out to Abram facts about the window-manufacturing process as the two walked along 8-foot-tall sheets of glass packed together in bundles of 40 that weigh almost three tons each.

After several takes, Morash looks at his hand-held computer and gives the two a thumbs-up gesture.

”There we go, boys,” he said.

Pozzi windows, which are being installed in a rustic, shingle-style home in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., is being featured on ”This Old House” as part of the program’s multi-part series on the remodeling of the 1883 home.

Aired on PBS, ”This Old House” attempts to demystify the home improvement process and celebrate the fusion of old-world craftsmanship and modern technology through programs illustrating workmanship.

Each season of the program features two renovation projects, one of which is filmed in Massachusetts and the other somewhere else in the U.S.

With distributors on the East Coast, Pozzi Windows was chosen for the project, and ”This Old House” wanted to show its viewers how the windows are made. While it has filmed five other window manufacturers in the course of its programming, ”This Old House” was interested in featuring some of Pozzi’s unique processes that have never been shown before, Morash said.

”We’ve never seen this sandwich of glass being made,” he said, referring to raw glass that is cut with a computer-controlled hard diamond tip and washed. Next, a piece of insulating steel is sandwiched between two sheets, and is sent through a hot oven where the steel melts and cools, setting the glass in place. The window then goes on to be fitted with wood, or other specifications, and finally is shipped off.

As the the computer-operated machine moved and cut the glass sheets, the glass broke and the crew had to momentarily stop filming.

”When we start shooting, there’s always a lunch break or machine failure,” Morash said, laughing about the perils of filming programs in factories.

Morash, Abram, a cameraman and a production assistant arrived at the factory early Wednesday morning for a full tour.

The director pieced together his storyline using information gathered by a researcher who was sent to Pozzi earlier this year.

The Boston-based crew’s stop in Bend was one of several its making along the West Coast to shoot segments for episodes of all three shows it produces, ”This Old House,” ”The Victory Garden” and ”The New Yankee,” said production assistant Sara Kowalsky.

Jason Conn, production manager, said Pozzi employees buzzed about being featured in the television program.

”It’s really exciting,” he said. ”People are asking for Norm (Abram’s) autograph.”

The program’s segment about Pozzi Windows will be about seven to 10 minutes long, and will be aired on PBS sometime this fall, Kowalsky said.