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Re: OT: windows for my house.... help :o) Posted by SWEDECAR [Email]  (#112)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from SWEDECAR) on Fri, 7 Oct 2005 21:30:07
In Reply to: OT: windows for my house.... help :o), GM, Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:15:18 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I did all the windows (16 of them) a couple of years ago on my 1940 built house. It for sure was the original wood sash windows in there and they were in bad shape.
I kept the window frame in the house and just removed the window sash and had to cut out a sheet metal track/weather stripping that the old window was supported by.
I also decided to keep the old wooden window sill which made it a lot more time consuming but in my eyes makes it look nicer.
I used an all vinyl double glass window with an outer window moulding already attached to the window (I think they call them retrofit windows?) and that meant I had to install them from the outside in.
That was also the reason why I had to cut out that piece of metal stripping which they otherwise use to support a new window when flipping them in from the inside.
Meticulous (read anal) as I am, I also used a high speed grinder with a concrete disc to shave off the stucco so that it was flat all around the window frame so that when the new one was installed it was not much gap between the window moulding and the stucco.
I still used lots of silicon behind the moulding/stucco an set it in with some screws driven into the old frame.
Since I decided on to keep the wooden window sill, I had to cut the bottom vinyl moulding off each windows (about half of it) in a certain angle to fit the slope of the sill. That was a lot of extra work.
All in all I probably spent about $3000.00 in material and a couple of weekends of my own labor.
A friend of mine had recently upgraded his house with flip in (from the inside) vinyl windows and attached a flimsy vinyl moulding to the outside that also wrapped around the window sill. It looked really cheesy to me and sure enough a year later that window moulding started to come off here and there since it was more or less held in place by silicon only.
After the windows were done I had the house re stuccoed.
Anders
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