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Time for a new window

16 Mar 2010 at 22:20

jhitesma

cooking, diy, food, house, projects, walls, weekend

The screen never fit right in our dining room window, so I figured we should replace it. Read more for the photos.

Window replacement

Time to replace a window!

Crete can still move fast enough to blur in light shade despite being 14 years old!
She looks sad from this angle because of her bad eye, but she really did look happy most of her visit despite her age.
Pretty much what we started with. We had already taken the trim off the day before to assess the installation of the original window.
The assessment showed that while there were 5 screws holding in the left side of the window, there was only 1 on the other side. And to be honest it didn’t have much to bite into.
Tried to get an early start since we had a pizza party planned that evening. Things were a little slow moving though since it was Sunday morning.
The wall has no idea what’s about to hit it.
I almost got a photo of dude. This does capture his essence well though. He looks like something from a nature film half stalking half hiding in the forest. Only without the forest. And …
Once the old window was removed Psammy was quick to show the other dogs why we sometimes remove the screen during parties and put a step under the window. So I figured a slightly taller rep …
Demo on the inside starts by making room to extend the opening.
Wow, that really is nice!
Yep, the replacement will have to be taller for sure.
If it’s going to be taller why not just make it wider as well. Will make it easier to make the new header.
Matt Rox and Savy showed up to help for awhile.
Since there were at least 3 studs within 6″ of either side of the opening we were able to get away without any extra supports while we got the new header in.
Keith put the header together while I cleaned up the mess so far and Matt got us some lunch.
And after lunch Keith pops in the new header and window frame.
Less lunch, more wall supports.
Despite the new window being a little bigger than the old one, it turned out the opening for the old one was a little too low. So we had to go ahead and replace the cladding. @ $30 a sheet …
I will have to stain it though, thankfully I found a gallon of the original stain in the shed. And a half pint of the trim paint.
By this time David, Lisa and the girls had shown up as well as Tommy. So they all got started on their big experiment for tonight. Chicharrones pizza with homemade chicharrones.
See, they ran off to get backup food and left Lisa to the experiment after it started to go south.
The homemade chicharrones were not a success…though the chicharrones pizza with store bought chicharrones was. Chicharrones is fun to say, but not so much to type.
I had offered Keith to leave it with just the cladding for the night – but he wanted to get the door in so we could really enjoy the party.
By this time I was getting pretty busy making pizzas while Keith continued to make steady progress on preparing the door opening.
The chicharrones pizza came out great, but the only photo I got was with my cell phone and is in another album. We did get the door in, but only with a few temporary screws for the night so …
Rest of the party went great. And the new window was so much nicer to carry the dirty dishes through than the old one at the end! Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion in part 2 – new …

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