Last week, I told you just how to measure for the vinyl alternative windows when replacing metal windows. Given that you are ready to purchase your brand-new plastic alternative windows, we need to discuss the various figure design options available. In many of the country the options are limited to both new construction or replacement frames. New construction frames feature a nailing fin to add the body to the studs during the construction of the new house. The replacement frame is simply the new building frame minus the nailing fin.
But in the west, where stucco homes are common, companies came up with a third kind of frame called a retrofit frame. The shape has a fin about 2 inches wide, located flush with the external face of the window. This is actually the best choice when replacing old windows, however not all jobs will accommodate a retrofit body application. So let’s talk about how to determine which framework will do the job.
Retrofit is the strategy to use, If you have a exterior. You install the new window from the surface, and the fin covers the old aluminum frame that you are planning to leave in place. Then you definitely screw the new window in using deck screws through the utmost effective header in addition to the side channels. We will enter increased detail on the particular installation in another report. If you’ve a exterior, but there is a trim around the opening of the window where the flush fin would normally go, the retrofit style frame can be still used by you. You’d need certainly to install the retrofit screen, eliminate the wood surrounding the beginning, then obtain and install new wood cut. The trim will no more fit because the retrofit window frame sizes will be larger in height and size compared to the old window frame. Yet another alternative would be to install the retrofit fin together with the wood cut. You can certainly do this as long as the level from the face of the wood cut to the position in the home of the inner part of the old aluminum frame is less than 3 inches deep. The reason is really because a good quality retrofit screen could have a 3 inch frame level from the back of the flush fin to the innermost element of the frame. That innermost part must be more into the home than the innermost part of the aluminum frame so that the aluminum frame will undoubtedly be hidden after we apply the interior trim. What if you’ve stone round the screen openings? Or siding? Then what? Well, if you can install the screen against the experience of the brick or exterior and still have the inner part of the vinyl frame be further in to the house than the previous frame, then you can utilize the retrofit type frame. If not, then you definitely need to use the replacement design frame,then use trim to complete the exterior. so the screen matches between your stone or wood if you’re in a position to obtain a retrofit figure with a somewhat thin fin, the fins can be also trimmed down by you. That would get rid of the need certainly to trim out the surface. Some manufacturers of retrofit frames will have grooves in the back of the retrofit fins. Until you can break off that little bit of the fin you just run a knife in the rhythm.
The main point to remember when determining whether or not to use a retrofit frame or a typical alternative frame is that in order to use the retrofit frame there needs to be significantly less than 3 inches from the external point where the flush fin may rest to the inside point in the place where the old frame ends. Go with the retro, more than 3 inches, If it’s less than 3 inches, use the alternative figure and include trim to the outside in lieu of the flush fin.
A few weeks I am likely to describe the process of removing the old metal screen.
