Blockwork and Window Install | DIY Garage Conversion
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Catching up on the garage conversion project! A few weeks back we managed to get the additional blockwork done and the first window installed. No top marks for the masonry skills but we did what we could! ;-)
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Tim you make it look so diy doable, and enjoyable to watch your ups and downs, we might do same as you and replace the original wooden garage window which has severe wood rot all around the frame, Peter
Starting to look like a room!
Great work Tim
Yay, the window is in! So much brighter in there now!
I don’t know about you but I always felt like I spent more energy and time planning and prepping than what I expended on the project 😄
Just got in from work. Perfect timing to watch at tea time :)
Did a similar job on my garage last summer. Got 4 used windows for a grand total of £10. Had to cut the concrete down of the single skin prefab garage with a 9inch grinder. You can add wd40 within the predrilled holes which aids the screws when screwing in. Also used a ratchet wrench to screw them as the drill was difficult to control
I’m REALLY enjoying watching your films. Excellent production and relaxing to watch. ❤️👍🏻
It's getting there mate, I know how hard it is while juggling family life, keep it up it will all be worth it 👍
Awesome seeing different ways of doing things and different codes...We could never install window in mortar like that here in Canada.
'Straighter than the rest of the building'. Yep that's what I keep saying too. Just started renovating a 1910ish timber framed ex fishing lodge with 1960s brick extension in N Devon. Way more work than I bargened for but great fun. Inspiring watching you Tim even if we do differ on the aesthetics of raised beds. 😉
great work Tim, as always I am quite impressed by the details - good quality work!
Thanks you given hints which I was looking in many video about gap in between frame and insulation.
Love to watch your video. Please need to know how can fill cavatie empty wall was build 80 years old.
Thanks.
Sunny fine weather. I am watching a video from the UK am I not? Amazing. 😁
Nice. Always generally short first. The longer has more flex makes it easier to go in.
Looking good 👍you should buy
Concreate screws for fixing frames you will never use plugs again we use them for everything Realy good
It was all done with concrete screws, just was showing the frame fixings as an option. 👍
@@TheRestorationCouple o sorry mate missed that bit lol love your videos 👍
Good job.👍
Btw the beads/scotia help conceal the cracks where the plaster abuts the window and when new it will look fine but very quickly a crack will appear at that point which is normally concealed behind the plastic trim/scotia
A bead of flexible caulk has always a fine job at covering the transition a bit more discreetly. 👍
You didn't use a cavity closer - Only expanding foam, will this be sufficient to control cold bridging which causes mould and damp. It's awhile since i fitted windows but i do remember we always fitted them across the cavity using fixing cleats and fixed to interior wall - Maybe this has changed since i last fitted windows.
Great stuff Tim! Just wondering why you didn't go for cavity closers though? Or perhaps it was just another journey to make and you needed to crack on, which would be very understandable. It's just when I see them in books they look a good product, don't know how much they cost though.
Just because I had so many offcuts of PIR to use and was internally insulting the reveals anyway, I.e both in and over cavity. 👍
Great !! may i know how much for the costing in the conversion in total?
I've had and look and not sure if I've missed the clip, have you done anything with the outside of the garage conversion. Cheers
When are you gonna update? We've loved watching the whole project so far
Got distracted by garden projects. Back on it soon. 👍
Is it marked on the window as to which way it goes in, putting one In my self soon.
Beads on the inside and glazing will be labelled interior and exterior.
The Restoration Couple, thanks is this temporary marked up or etched on glass in some way 👍
looking good Tim just you got a lot to do
Great videos mate, really helping me ahead of my conversion. Just a quick question, I've got an attached garage, single skin with no sign of DPC, what would you suggest in terms of bricking up front with no dpc to link into?
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Worried you've used a 150mm cill with minimal/no clearance and still need to render. Curious of result.
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Hi Tim, did I miss it where's the rest of the garage conversion after the window install?
Nope just not done yet. 🙄
Great video buddy,, what video editing software are you using if you don’t mind me asking 👍
Looks great.
Do you know where I can buy uPVC or composite window frames? I have a bunch of double glazed units but need new frames. Can’t find anywhere that sells the frames without glass
IS YT Try Warwick Windows in Liverpool. They should be able to sort you out.
You need scaffolding to work off .ladders are no good .think of your family if you fall and you can’t work .i worked in construction for 30 years known 3guys got killed working off ladders. old jimmy Western Australia retired .besides that your doing a good job on your place
Get some scaffolding mate
So what your doing is not real work ?
He just means his actual job
Just a point regarding the nonsense that is ‘Fensa Certified’ window installers, I fitted double glazed windows and a door to a house i was renovating and when it came to selling the house I informed my Solicitor about this and they told me that it was not a problem as they could get an indemnity insurance which cost me about £35. Obviously different matter when building an extension as the Building Inspector will sign off on the windows/doors anyway as i am also currently doing.
Yes we have some in the main house that need signing off or insurance if we sell.
Someone's nicked the garden block wall cladding.
Great spot ! 😂
Why didn’t you just go out and get yourself an 8 mill. Drill. Lol
Because I already had the concrete screws and know for a fact that there are 3 or 4 lurking in the workshop already! 👍
Wtf is this. I wanna see every detail. You cut all the parts with the install and just talk.