Has anybody had any experience replacing Mavin windows that fall in the class action suit due to rot? My Mavin windows are the flat exterior casing with the baked enamel finish and were installed in 1987. The casings and sills are rotting out. The class action suit covers very little of the cost and no labor. The question is am I stuck replacing them with Marvins to fit the R.O.s? I have checked and the aluminum cased Mavins are slightly larger at the outside edge of the casings by about 3/8″. If I replace them with Mavins I definately do not want a painted casing. Any suggestions on a jig to trim the clapboards accurately so I don’t have to reside the house??
Any way you slice it this looks like a big job. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks
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Definitely a tough job. You could make a shoot board for the siding cuts. The best I could get for an interested Marvin owner was 25 off list and no down pmt. You'll also find there's no real set opening size in the glass business. Never did understand why. I would think you should try to get marvin to eat any special sizing upgrades. That it fits in the rough opening is all you can hope for. They won't special size just for cosmetics or ease of installation. Best of luck. Oddly I'm a marvin owner with clad casements from '88. No problemo.
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Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Thanks for the response. It seems I just got "lucky" I have a friend with Mavins installed in '88 and he hasn't had any problems either. I'm thinking I can use the exsiting windows as a guide and use either a router or one of those small Makita circular saws to trim back the clapboards. What is a shoot board?
Easier to make than to explain.
Picture a straight edge to guide and be under your circular saw. Screw it to the claps where you want to cut and run your circ saw up it.
You take a pc of ply a cpl inches wider than the base of your saw. Apply another pc of "1 x " to the factory edge if you trust it to be straight. Now set the saw on the ply up against the 1x edge guide and cut. The ply edge left on the shoot board is now your cut line. Easy to register and easy to fasten to the house.__________________________________________
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
Here ya go, but, 'round here we calls 'em "Shooting Boards" <G> EliphIno!