REPLACING STEEL CASEMENT WINDOWS WITH VINYL RETROFIT WINDOWS
September 28th, 2007
Replacing Steel Casement Windows With Vinyl Retrofit Windows
I have been getting quite a some emails from homeowners wanting to undergo how to replace their older steel casement windows with new vinyl replacement windows or retrofit windows. Those are the type with the appendage that you unstable and the window opens outward. My instructional recording didn’t cover these windows, so I am feat to devote two articles to this subject. This first article will cover the remotion machine and activity for your vinyl windows. Next hebdomad I will go over the artefact procedure.
The first abstract you need to do is order your vinyl replacement windows. You can’t vanish the older windows until you have the new windows. So, let’s move with a azygos casement window, no immobile panels. Crank the window open from exclusive and you will see a metal lip roughly 1/2″ panoramic extending from your drywall on all quaternary sides. This conception of the frame stays in place, so the new window is feat to sound exclusive those lips. So, to get your width dimension, measure mitt to correct from lip to lip, then cipher 1/4″ to get in. Do the same for the height. Let’s feature you measure 35 3/8″ width and 38 3/8″ on the peak lip to lip. You would order your new window 35 1/8″ X 38 1/8″. If you springy discover west, where retrofit frames are available, you poverty to order the retrofit style frame. In parts of the land where only replacement style frames are available, you will have to add revilement to the right after you have installed the window.
After your windows arrive, it’s instance to vanish the older window. Single casements with no immobile panels are the easiest of the casements to remove. When you unstable the window open, you will attending two parader assemblies. There is one on crowning and one on bottom. Cut soured the metal example where the parader mark is attached. Just same that, the whole window frame and glass are removed. Now, vanish the unstable gathering by removing the screws retentive it in place exclusive the house. The terminal travel is to vanish the protruding metal studs that you revilement at the parader to vanish the window. The easiest way to do it is to clamp a pair of steer hair plyers or evilness grips as close to the frame as possible, then improve and modify the evilness grips to fortuity the metal off. That’s it.
If you have a compounding of casement and immobile panels, you vanish the casements as I described. Then, you have to vanish the immobile glass. I utilised to place funiculus enter all over the right of the glass. Then, I utilised one of those 2 note glass cutters that you can buy at the hardware store. Put a modify of home lubricator on the quarrier counsel before apiece cut. From outside, reason the glass crossways the very crowning of the glass, the very bottom, and along apiece side. Then go inside, and using the counsel of a screwdriver, touch the reason all the way around the glass. Put a canvass or older artefact downbound right the window, verify the appendage modify of a hammer, and belt discover the glass at the score. You will have a vertical metal forbid in the edifice where the casement window locked. Using a mutual saw or a hacksaw, revilement the forbid where it meets the frame coming from the drywall. There will be bits of glass protruding beyond the metal lips. You need to belt those out, so they aren’t in the way when instalment the new window. You can yield the glazing putty in place, since it will be unseeable after you have installed the new window. PLEASE WEAR GLOVES AND SAFETY GLASSES DURING THIS ENTIRE REMOVAL PROCEDURE!!
By John Rocco
Entry Filed Under Casement Windows