Installing a Window

 

Final Install:

If you put the last picture first, that's the picture that shows up in the blog listing. So here is the finished window from the inside. 

 

Cutting the Openning:

This window is on a garage wall where a small office was installed in the oversized garage. Unfortunately, this made for a very dark office. Our job was to install a window in a way that it looked as if it was a part of the original construction. First trick. Finding the studs. Trickier yet because we ordered the window before we opened the wall to be sure where the studs were. We were correct. 

Another trick. The vinyl siding is relatively easy to remove and replace, whereas the sheet rock on the inside is textured and painted in a way that would be hard to match. So we cut the inside opening to match the window and the outside larger to install the headers. That last little bit of 2x4 was cut at the top then twisted to pull the sheet rock screws through the wall board without disturbing the inside finish. It worked perfectly and saved a couple days of labor for the customer. 

 

Header Installed:

We quickly tacked a double 2x10 header into the new openning. 

 

Opening from the Inside:

It's a bit startling, and refreshing, to see a new hole in the side of a house where there had only bee a wall for years. We were lucky that none of the wires from the enormous fuse box went sideways to the garage through our window space. That would have been time consuming. 

 

Window In:

It only took about four hours to get to this point. The window is in with new external trim and most of the siding reinstalled. There was a bit of new siding in the ratersnun the garage, but the old siding was faded and anbit powdery, so new pieces would have looked very out of place for years. So we managed to use all the old siding in its original place minus the window cutout. 

 

Window Installed:

Without interior trim. Yet. That was the next day, and is shown in the first pic at the top of the blog.