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We’re working on a book for Taunton Press on installing doors and windows and looking for possible photo-opportunities relating to this subject. Below is a wish-list of the particular items we’re looking for. If any of these are on your radar screen please call or e-mail us. I can send you the passage of text that applies to that particular job so you can see what we’re after. Part of the book remains unwritten, but in those cases I can send you the applicable parts of my outline.
If you’re interested in taking pictures, great! We’ll pay for any we use. Or, it may be possible for us to send a photographer to your job-site. We need in-process shots rather than completed work. This would really help us out. You can reach us at:
Scott McBride
ph./fax: 540 987 7254
e-mail: [email protected]
Andy Wormer
ph: 802 877 3023
e-mail:[email protected]
p.s. If you’re an architect, perhaps you could fax this to a contractor you know.
LIST:
* Cutting-in a narrow door opening in an existing exterior wall – no shoring required
* Cutting-in a wide window opening that requires shoring the ceiling
* Installing an exterior french door pair
* Installing wood casement windows with exterior casing
* Installing a vinyl replacement window
* Installing a nail-on aluminum sliding window with drywall jambs
* Installing a bay window or bow window
* Installing a “greenhouse window”
* Installing factory-built fixed glass units (picture units, polygons)
* Building site-built fixed glass windows
* Installing a round-top window
* Installing an aluminum storm/screen combination unit
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Andrew,
I guess I'm a little confused. You're writing a book about installing doors and windows, but you have no pictures of your own work? Does this mean that you don't do this for a living? Have you ever installed a door or a window? Please explain.
Ed. Williams
*Please, please include a section on removing and replacing 1950s era solid aluminum single/double hung windows from brick exterior ranch houses.Of particular interest would be replacing them with brick-to-brick installations without the use of brick moulding.(Using wood windows with exterior clading.)Also, there are the steel casements, typically found in many 1950's era houses and are a pain in the butt to remove and replace because they are set in concrete.Many of these are also found as tiltouts in basements.
*Andrew --I'll be installing some wood casement windows -- 36 of them -- in my place in Hollywood, California. In some cases, there's also termite damage in the rough framing around the old windows that will have to be replaced. The structure dates from 1926, stucco over wood lath with beveled edges and tarpaper on the outside, ordinary lath and plaster inside.-- J.S.
*I second Alan's wish.Rich Beckman
*Hi Ed.No big mystery: I was a carpenter for about a dozen years before I began to work as an editor at Fine Homebuilding magazine back in 1995. During that time, I installed plenty of doors and windows, but I never thought to take pictures of the process. The writer of this book - Scott McBride, also an FH contributing editor - is probably one of the most experienced and accomplished carpenters I know and has surely built and/or installed more doors and windows than he even cares to think about. I'm sure he even has a few photos kicking around, too, but what we're looking for are current projects that can be professionally photographed so that the book we're working on won't look like it's been photographed by amateur photographers using point-and-shoot cameras.Andy
*I'm in the process of changing 25 of the old steel casement style windows now. Some of them are in framed opening, some are in masonary. Both are with brick veneer finish, all are on the same job. Still have 5 to go. It's a fun job!! Replacing them with vinyl(Sunrise) doublehung windows.
*Andy,OK, I feel better. It seems that if you're going to write a book about something, you should have a working knowledge of the subject. It's plain to see that you do. We will be installing (in a few weeks) some custom made 5' x 8' double french doors with transoms (about six units I think) in a new house here in Dallas. There are also quite a few custom casements and fixed sash units. We took delivery of the second floor windows last week, and will be looking for the remainder next week. It's a very large house and will take a while to install all of these.If you know of a pro picture person in the Dallas area, I'm sure the builder will have no problem with allowing him access to the property while we install these.Let me know,Ed. Williams
*Ed,Yer going to have to wear the t-shirt with out the holes in it for this one.: )
*Andrew Have just redone a few windows and used my digital camera. Are you limited to traditional film or can I email some of the one's I took? Skip