I’m getting together the building supplies that I need to build the coffee roastery onto my garage. After scouring the local paper, I picked up some used windows. The only thing is, they have flanges on BOTH sides. I’m used to windows that have a nail strip on one side but I’ve never seen any like these. The windows are in perfect shape, never installed, and I got a great price on ’em.
Should I just cut off the inner flange and install them or is there another way of doing it?
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You sure those aren't replacement windows designed to be installed in an existing jamb?
Hard to tell from the pic, but looks like they might be.
Doesn't mean you can't use 'em, just a different way of installing and getting 'em weather tight.
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Those look like a vinyl replacement window to me. I have only a little experience with vinyl a long time ago, but the "flanges" (I think) are a structural element and are meant to fit up against some type of molding on the out side and then held in by a similar molding on the inside. I have no clue how they are supposed to be chinked.
They certainly do appear to be vinyl replacement windows. You should be able to shim them in them opening pretty tight and then spray foam them in place. If you don't trust the foam to hold them in place put a couple of screws through the sides and into the framing.
Those are vinyl replacement windows. They're designed to fit inside an existing window frame. They are not nailing flanges.....do not cut off the "interior flange".
Make up some window frames out of 1 x.....maybe an inch larger than the units themselves all the way round. Use the exterior trim as the stops. Install the frames into your rough openings, and the replacement windows into the frames pushing them all the way forward to the "stops". Screw the units into the frames using the holes provided and install interior stops.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
What everyone else said. Those are replacement windows.
Now get in the shop and get ta makin some frames for them.
Thanks to everyone for the input. I'll make some frames and shim up around them.