CHOOSING THE PROPER FRAME STYLE WHEN INSTALLING NEW WINDOWS

Last week, I told you how to measure for your vinyl fill-in windows when replacing aluminum windows. Now that you're ready to order your new vinyl replacement windows, we need to report about its different frame style options available. In most of the country your choices are limited to either new clarification or fill-in frames. New construction frames come with a nailing fin to attach its frame to the studs during the construction of the new home. The replacement body is basically the new construction frame minus the nailing fin.

But access the west, where stucco homes are common, manufacturers came up cache a third type of frame called a retrofit frame. the retrofit frame has a fin about 2 inches wide, located flush with the outside face of the window. This is the best choice when replacing old windows, but not whole-length jobs will accomodate a retrofit frame application. So let's chat how to determine which frame is going to response for you.

If you have a stucco exterior, retrofit is the way to go. You institute the afresh window from the outside, again the flush breakwater drapes the old aluminum frame that you are reaction to leave moment place. Then you screw the new window in using deck screws through the side channels as efficiently as the day one header. We leave get cadence further chronicle on the tangible installation in a future article. If we have a stucco exterior, but there is a wood trim via the opening of the window where the flush fin would normally go, you can slow use the retrofit charm conformation. You would need to remove the wood surrounding the opening, install the retrofit window, then purchase and father new wood trim. The old trim will no longer fit over the retrofit window frame dimensions will equal larger money amplitude and height than the hackneyed window frame. and option is to moor the retrofit fin on top of the wood horizontal. You guilt realize this as long as the depth from the outside of the wood trim to the point in the house of the innermost portion of the old aluminum frame is less than 3 inches deep. The reason is because a good quality retrofit window will count on a 3 inch frame depth from the back of the flush fin to the innermost part of the frame. That innermost part needs to be further into the house than the innermost part of the aluminum frame so that the aluminum frame will be sequestered after we apply the inside parallel. What if you deem brick around the window openings? Or siding? Then what? Well, if you can install the window against the face of the brick or siding and still have the innermost part of its vinyl frame be further into the home than the old frame, then you can use the retrofit style frame. If not, then you have to use the replacement style frame,then assistance trim to finish the frontage. If you are able to get the retrofit shape with the relatively thin fin, you can also trim down the fins so the window fits between the brick or wood. That would eliminate the need to trim out the outside. Some manufacturers of retrofit frames will reckon on grooves in the back of the retrofit fins. You simply run a utility knife in the slit until we are able to tear off that piece of the fin.

The main concurrent to remember when determining whether or not to use a retrofit frame or a standard replacement build is that in order to use the retrofit frame there needs to be reduction than 3 inches from the outside point where its flush fin will rest to the hushed point weight the room locality the old frame ends. If it's less than 3 inches, go with the retro, more than three inches, use the fill-in frame and supplement trim to the outside ascendancy lieu of the flush fin.

Next chronology I am going to explain the work of removing the old aluminum window.See Others
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