How to Build and Install Storm Windows in an Old House
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Storm windows falling apart? Come and see how Dave builds new ones for a 136 year old farm house. Constructed from simple joinery, all supplies for these windows were purchased from a home center.
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If you're cutting (and especially planing) the lumber, there's no use in using treated stuff. Once you cut through the exterior face you lose the protection from treatment and will have to add some type of finish yourself.
When cutting glass, after scoring you need to lightly tap the line you made with something hard in order for the scored edge to start cracking the full profile of the glass below it. Small handheld glass cutting tools have a ball on the other end for this purpose. Otherwise the scored line might not be enough to give a clean line for the glass to break on, as you discovered.
Best video I have seen on the subject. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice craftsmanship! But I do agree with Jack below. Using traditional glazing material should have been used. Should one of the panes break it will be a lot easier to replace the glass too!
Yeah, my uncle told me the same thing about glazing material. I guess I didn't do enough research before embarking on the project. If I ever build windows again I'll give it a try.
@@craftsmandavid5970 If a pane breaks and you find the caulk has gone hard and is difficult to remove, just use a heat gun and a carbide scraper and it'll come off.
In my opinion there is nothing wrong with using wood trim "cleats"... just do a neater job! My windows are original, 85 years old and done in that style. They have beveled profiles and mitered corners, and are inset to create a nice clean step that looks 100x better than any glazing putty. (These days mitered corners are discouraged on the bottom piece though, as that's the usual point of failure/rot.)
Excellent video!
amazing work!
Great work bro. Very nice.
I just happened to have installed 7 interior storm windows and deleted 3 windows in my house. I had single glazing. Six of my windows had a louver drape in front of them. I bought 6 mil clear vinyl sheets in a 54 inch width that sell for about $6 per yard. I used a staple gun and attached the vinyl to the interior face of the wall at the head overlapping the wall 2" at the head and jambs and flush at the sill because it stuck out 1/2". This was quick, inexpensive and not visible when the blinds are shut. On three smaller windows I installed between 1" to 3" of foam insulation and no longer threat them as windows to reduce energy use. The foam insulation was covered by blinds so not visible. I generally never opened the windows, I open just the downstairs sliding door and front door.
Nice job... Great video!
Listen for that zip sound you heard on the successful try and it will part properly every time. We don’t generally have these on old properties in the U.K. but they look like just what I need one question though what holds them in place? Surely they don’t just balance there? This rookie needs to understand thanks for such a great video loved it very inspiring
Those cleats are going to rot out way sooner than you think. It's better to use traditional glazing putty. That caulking won't hold up.
My windows still mostly have the original 85-year-old wood cleats, and they face outwards and are mitered at the corners, are heavily weathered where the paint has flaked off, but they are not rotted. I guess they don't make wood these days like they used to.
Agreed, the caulking won't hold up. But he can easily service these windows, since the cleats are just held in with screws.
How are they held in place?
When I was a kid, we would put up and take down the storm windows on our house every year. We'd keep the storm windows in the basement. I wonder if modern homes have this anymore.
I've had a problem with green treated wood holding paint. it will hold for a while then ....
Ed Sheeran! I had no idea you were also a DIY King! Great video, sir, despite my stupid joke. Liked. Subbed. And now Commented. (Is "commented" even a word? No, it is not. Sorry.)
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Good job, I too am making my own wooden double pane storms
Great video. One question, did I hear that you used treated lumber? How long did you have to wait to paint? Did you use latex exterior paint?
PT never holds paint. Better to buy old-growth lumber.
I would be wary of cutting treated lumber with shop equipment. I noticed it makes my circular saw rust
Yeah, I imagine it's due to all the moisture in the wood. I tried to look for pieces of wood that had been sitting at the lumberyard for a while and were a bit more dry.
@@craftsmandavid5970 Great vid. FYI, it's moisture and what the lumber has been treated with for the past 20 years or so that eats steel. Same reason hot dipped galvanized or stainless fasteners are code for the "newer" lumber. Just cleaning your tools is all that's needed. In a pinch, just run some untreated scrap wood through the same saws/machines. More involved: Disassemble and use a solvent, 409, Simple Green, mineral spirits, oven cleaner, alcohol and others.(Should periodically do this anyway) Also, Mr Clean magic erasers(or generics) work okay to scrub pitch off of blades.
The material that they treat with is corrosive to steel. That is why you must use galvanized nails and hangers with treated lumber
Your windows are different from my country, can you explain how do they hold in place and don't fall off?
Hardware that looks like a bow tie that are screwed on to the frame, then twist to hold the window in place.
whats holding them in
Shouldn't we know what holds the window in place?
The windows are held in with store-bought clips that kind of look like a wing nut. The user can be rotated to allow the window to be removed.
So, when you used the ogee bit, weren’t the corners rounded out as well?
Yes they were. Hopefully it's not too noticeable.
Ok 136 yrs old would be great in the title especially out of curiosity for more folk to like, "but I'm only one that doesn't mean nothing bad," just what I would have liked to know from the beginning. Thank you 👍
I use the same tennis ball trick also---ha
Why not just use the old glass?
Should have considered adding security and reflective window film to reinforce the glass and to keep the sun's heat out.
Only good if you have a workshop, plenty of tools and am a wood worker/carpenter.
Step 1: Mortgage house to buy all the tools you need.
I did it myself with the Woodglut plans. I think this is the best way to find out how to build it.
Nice Job!
@@craftsmandavid5970 Thanks!
@@craftsmandavid5970 Pretty sure Woodglut is a spam scam.
I did it with the Woodglut plans.
I checked a lot of handbooks with woodworking plans. Instructions from woodprix are the best I think.
I checked woodprix and really sucks
The respect you loose by wearing the sweat pants really eats into your knowledge base karma. Might as well as wear PJs. Sorry.
I've found great handbook on woodprix website. Good solutions for everyone I think.
I checked woodprix and really sucks
What a waste of time and effort. You should of bought NEW windows to replace those old single pane POS windows then you could of used the old windows to make a storm window and they would have a R value of around 5. Your method will be lucky to have an R value of 2. If you can't afford new windows you can search facebook marketplace for a few months and get used ones for cheap.