If you have some initial skills, you can install a wooden window without any problems with your own hands. We will now tell you how to do this easily and efficiently.
Increasingly, wooden windows are beginning to return to apartments and houses. Despite the advantages of PVC windows, one can point out their main disadvantage - plastic ones do not breathe at all. Modern wooden windows make it so that you can easily install the same double or triple glazing in them and they serve no less than plastic ones. It happens that the openings are a little skewed and if you call in specialists, installing a wooden window will cost a pretty penny. That's why we do it ourselves.
First, you need to decide which window you will install: with what profile, with what fittings. What kind of wood should it be made from? We decided, ordered and bought. Now installation.
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Preparing the window opening
First of all, you must dismantle the old window. No special skills required here. After all, breaking is not building. Clear the slopes of plaster. You will still have to make new slopes.
Inspect the opening; if the house is made of brick, then there must be a lintel that holds the wall above the window. In wooden houses, most often there is a log frame and there is no lintel there, since there is no load on the frame.
If a window sill was installed in the old window, it must also be dismantled. Anyway, with the installation of a new window you will be installing a new window sill. In general, you should end up with a bare window opening, which you must clean from construction dust and excess debris. There shouldn't even be any remnants of plaster. Everything must be knocked down and cleaned, otherwise it will interfere with you when installing a wooden window.
Mortgages should remain in the opening - these are wooden inserts into which self-tapping screws are driven. If they are not rotten and sit firmly in place, then you can leave them and install a wooden window in them. If the situation is bad, it’s not a big deal, since it can be done without mortgages.
