Folks down the road asked about putting a couple of new windows in their house. Photos by the original builder show the house in many stages of construction, and if they’re accurate, the building has plywood shear everywhere and tyvek over it. Siding is fiber cement with an embossed woodgrain pattern and 6″ exposure. Both new windows would be first floor and my concerns are mostly about making them waterproof.
Here’s #1:
The blue tape on the wall shows the proposed new sill. The new window would match the other two and the trim would wrap all three. This side of the house is exposed to steady breezes in summer ranging to high winds in winter. The FC siding shows gaps at all butt joints and I’m sure there’s plenty of water rolling down the wall behind it.
#2:
The new window would be between the 2 existing at lower right. The two existing would be removed and replaced with picture windows of the same size (one sash each). Again the trim would gang all three.
My two questions for y’all:
How much siding would you remove, if any, to ensure a proper waterproof (as much as Tyvek permits) install? I can easily pocket-cut the opening from inside and out without removing any excess siding at all, or I can strip the walls above the new holes. I’m sure in the owners’ minds the idea is that you cut a hole in the wall and stick a window in, so a proposal that describes stripping the wall, residing, and repainting will puzzle them, and will cost more than not doing that.
AND… what are the chances of removing a window from a Tyvek hole without mangling the Tyvek? Worst case is the installer used a tube of Sikaflex behind the fins and those windows are going to take Tyvek with them.
None of the remodels I’ve ever done have involved pulling a new-ish fin window, and certainly not with the intent of trying to put another one back in the same hole. Usually we’d be stripping an entire wall or an entire house, pulling old double hungs, moving holes, re-papering and re-flashing, installing new windows….. nothing as surgical as this.
Edited 7/11/2004 11:49 am ET by davidmeiland
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I don't see any problem at all. If ya can get a head flashing up an in, and cut the siding cleanly, use the stick on windo wrap flashing over the fins.
I am sure, gentle work around the FC will be called for, and possibly some creative use of a hacksaw blade screwed to a long handle, can sever any recalcitrant nails.
To hell with the caulk/tyveck joint, use window wrap stickum....if ya need help getting some, lemme know. I sent a roll to Bob in CT. it solved his problems..(goodwrench Bob, with the GPS, driveway from hell..et al)
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Maybe you can convince the HO to skip one of the window cjanges, and build a decent back porch instead.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
and build a decent back porch instead
That elevation does seem to scream "I need a deck! And not a puny thing like on the east side!" (Although having the matching bright white skirting & planking from the house elevation was a thought-out approach IMHO.)Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
The next project is a deck, or so said the owner, in the way that owners sometimes do when they want you to think they're going to keep you in clover for months.
So, no one so far has tried to extricate a window from a tyvek install, or cut a new window in??
I'm behind "sphere on this one, pop in that z-bar,and the sealer tape!
Sounds like you need one of these - from MALCO:
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