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okay pretty exciting here we're gonna
take this window out that's about my
guess
million years old and we're gonna put a
new one doing new double-hung window so
I'll show you how to do it should be a
lot of fun here's the old window now
what we're gonna do is I got this metal
screening already take it off they had
like a storm window it's been em a
time all the screws are all rotted off
so I just pulled it out the windows
right there it just came out pretty easy
we'll take this trim off you know around
here I already took some of the trim off
on the inside but I'll go through with
you let you know how to figure out what
size of window to get so let's go any
inside take a look at this before we get
inside here's the new window we're gonna
put in a typical double hung window this
is a impact glass and the pressure drop
rating so we're gonna have some clips we
got to put on this one shouldn't be too
big of a deal but I just got out of the
box and just look at the rough opening
size for it and you know measured it up
made sure it all look good it does look
good so let's go inside and we'll review
a few things here we are in the inside
you got a look at now is uh you know
before you get too far into this you got
to figure out how big this window is how
big the rough opening is behind it so
you know you got some as you can see you
got some you know stuff on the way here
so my suggestion to you is if you're
doing it yourself take the trim off take
the trim off the window the existing
window and you can sort of get your
scale on here you know this one's about
34 but at the same time you can feel
back there and you feel there's nothing
there you know there's a little bit of
room back there so it's probably a
little bit bigger than 34 so you figure
that out you do the same top to bottom
you figure out how big your hole is and
again you can usually feel down there
you can feel a little bit more room so
you know it's a little bit deeper a
little bit higher than what you're
actually seeing right here so you go to
your anderson window brochure whoever
makes your windows and get something
that fits in there
if you
have to get something a little bit
smaller you never want to put a bigger
window and then your rough opening
because that's a lot of that's a lot of
swearing okay if you got to build in a
little bit in each side
up and down with a piece of wood or two
not a big deal when you got to get into
you know knocking a 2x4 out or taking
one of these horizontal pieces out
you're gonna hate that so like I said if
you get if you fill the wall back here
and you figure it's 35 or whatever don't
put a 36 wide in there put something a
little bit smaller put a 34 and a half
or you know go down one size well you'll
find with these new windows is even
though they're the same size or maybe a
little smaller their glass area is so
much bigger this thing is gonna look
like a you know something out of a
submarine compared to when I put that
new window in here so anyway let me tear
this window out and get a little closer
to putting a new one in okay about 20
minutes later everything that was there
is pretty much on the ground these old
windows they don't put up much of a
fight to get out they come up pretty
easy so I got it all taken out now my
openings 37 and a half by 58 so I got
the window laying on the ground now it's
pretty windy I don't want to lean it up
against something and have it blow over
so the top the bottom is about 57 and
the widthwise of the window is 54 so you
know I got to go or 30 34 sorry so I got
to go from 34 to 37 and a half two by
fours one and a half so I put a couple
two by fours and one on each side and
that would bring that right into you
know 34 three four and a half inches top
and bottom you know I got 50 58 rough
opening it's 37 oh sorry
58 rough opening I got about a 56 and a
half probably 57 be fine so I got a make
a skinny one inch and if you either put
a 1 inch on the bottom or I can put a
half inch top and bottom whatever I got
laying around so I'll figure that out so
that's it so I got a frame it in a
little bit
from what we got and pop this sucker in
there had to go in pretty easy okay
let's do it
so some of this siding was the 1-inch
stuff they had here was getting in a way
because I would have put a piece of wood
to build this up again this wide I don't
want to go this wide I want to go this
way that's where the that's where the
windows gonna be hooking against so I
want to get the want to get this flush
so I did that my trusty sawzall out in
the ladder here just shaved it down here
got it all nice and smooth not a big
deal this is like hemlock or something
it gives up pretty quick so and if I got
a little bump or two it's not a big deal
but now I'll put a I'll put a base on
here whatever width it is then I'll put
two vertical stringers here I don't want
to put anything on the top because I
want to get the top and bottom about
even and there's nothing right now to
nail into here
you know because right now we're at the
siding so I'll bring this up you know
the width of a 2x4 and I could probably
sneak it under there if I needed to the
face you know the flange of the window
so good now here we go I built in a
frame and again it was old Woods who
wasn't perfect so you know any time you
put a piece of wood like this and check
it and you know mostly these old houses
are pretty good and you know what I did
I it wasn't great so I put a shim
underneath it on the side so I got this
thing just about a plum or I should say
level plum is vertical and same with
these things you know this came out
pretty good I didn't do no shimmy at all
so I left about a 3/4 of an inch left to
right here to get the window and so
you'll split the difference there and
you know one thing I found all these old
houses is you know you can see that's
not quite perfect but if you look at the
house it's not quite perfect either so
it's a catch-22 what do you do right
you make it perfect that would put a you
know kick the window out quite a bit at
the bottom as you try to make it the
same as what's there right or wrong
that's what I do so anyway I got it
pretty even the whole way up so I'll be
able to put that into a no problem
and sand weighing it down get that in
there like I said this one has a bracket
so I'll have to fit all that a little
bit but then I'll shim up if needed try
to get it even in the hole and I'll try
to get it even out here too you want to
even reveal here cuz you're gonna be
putting some to buy whatever here for
outside trim and you want it even you
don't want it like one inch on one side
and six inches on the other side you
want to get it within you know that way
you see it from the bridge you won't see
too much yeah I see it you don't want to
be obvious anyway okay let me keep
playing okay here's the beast in it what
smooth as usual
you can see I added a little bit of
material here like I say the worst thing
you want to do if you put a new window
in the old house and this is a
replacement window really because you're
replacing an old window you already got
a hole in the house it's not a new hole
it's the same hole you just make a
little smaller so I would say us a
replacement window but it is what they
Lowe's or Home Depot would consider new
construction has this flange here a
replacement window if you ever look at
them you know you're expected to use the
wood you already have for the window you
just take the panes out and built in
from there but usually that wood is so
rotted and again you can see that the
wood I took out it's it's wonderful
that's the old window weights that cool
thing is these window weights are still
attached to the ropes that's a nice
story but anyway so the window went in
no problem so now I got to get some you
know some 2x4 and do a little song and
trimming and whatever and the crap
out of it no big deal and on the inside
I got to do a you know I got a mess with
I got a mess with the trim on the inside
like I said it's not too bad plumb wise
you can see it's a little bit off it
it's pretty much even with the house you
know you look at it this way
and it's pretty sweet
you know see a shim it up a little bit
usually if you got a good solid base
here like I did I got that pretty level
I put a couple spacers underneath there
to get the
where the windows gonna sit pretty level
and you don't have to do much messing
with it and you just put a tack in every
one of these holes and on the inside
there's some bracketry I got an anchor
in but I'll get to that tomorrow and you
know I got to get a bunch of trim and
start trimming it up so that'll probably
take easily as long as putting in this
window because these windows usually go
in fast but they finish slow so hope
this is a good video for you if you ever
have to do this product to your house
don't be too intimidated take your time
you know figure out where you're at get
everything like I say get the window a
little smaller not a little bigger and
you'll be you'll be doing good so of
course if you're up 20 feet in the air
it gets a little tougher but usually
people will bring them in from the
inside of the house and you know put
them in place put them outside and bring
them back inside so you usually have two
people I just had myself and my 11 year
old girl helper and she did pretty well
so I hope you had a good video bye
okay here we are the windows all trimmed
up it takes a while for the trim and I
really don't expect this video to be
anything about the trim just basically
you know how to figure how big a window
to get really that's the hard part you
figure that out you get the window in
you'll figure out how to trim it when I
do the trimming I just put a simple side
here this is a 1 by 3 you know this is a
1 by whatever usually I rip it to the
width of the wall you know you want this
stuff to lay flat but anyway I don't buy
the jams the jams will cost way too much
money from Anderson so I just get to
select pine and anyway rip it then I put
a 1 by 3 and down here I'll put a 1 by 4
I leave the edge you go a little long
and maybe chamfered or something pretty
simple stuff I mean you can go crazy
with trim you could easily spend as much
money on the trim as you do in the
window so and I'll show you outside to
what it looks like looks pretty good so
I'll just let this for the person who
owns it and let them figure out what
they want to stain it if they stain a
great as long as they figure out what
stain to put on I can do that
not a big deal it's a little bit of a
pain because when you're saying these
things you gotta wash you don't get the
glass fit anyway
here's the outside I trim this up too I
just put to buy whatever I got whatever
I needed and cut him down you know what
a little above tried to get the sides
even when I put the window and I was
pretty close so I only had to rip one
size of these I put it in there then on
the top I put a piece up there then I
also put a piece of corner flashing up
there I slid that underneath underneath
shakes and talked the crap out of it you
can see I got a bunch of right here
I usually beat it on a lot of people
were better than me about with caulking
but I usually beat it on and hit up my
finger to smooth it out a lot of people
don't even have to do that they're much
better so that's it I'll let that dry a
little bit paint it white and put the
screen in I got to take a film off too
and be done so I hope you enjoyed the
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