The last window…

On a brief visit last weekend Paul (thanks again for joining me!) and I replaced the last of the old windows in the house, the third that I had done. My mother kindly gave me the money for this window some time ago and it was purchased but has sat in the corner of the bedroom for many months so fitting it has also helped tidy up the room.

The old frame came out easily following the lessons of the last two window installations – take out enough plaster around the window and then saw through the middle of the bottom piece of the frame and pull each piece out in turn. So within an hour we were ready to install the new frame. Of course nothing is easy and the oak frame to the opening was not square so we had to cut and plane a couple of infill pieces first.

After this the new frame went in fairly quickly and after installing the last of the large screws holding it in we are now almost competent, which is typical as we won’t have to repeat this again (assuming we don’t buy another house to do up…..)! So with masking tape applied we hung the windows which fitted very well.

The next job was to use a whole can of exanding foam around the frame and then plaster the wall and seal the edge with mastic. Another hint you leave the plastic on the windows while doing this, we still haven’t got the foam off all of the first frame we fitted!

The final result was very pleasing with not only more light coming in through the new window but being a north facing wall the room even started to feel warmer with the double glazed panels. So thanks Mum and thanks Paul!