Month: June 2010

Whew… for some reason today feels worse than yesterday humidity wise, maybe because we never really got enough rain yesterday to break it.  With a quick trip to home depot to start the day we got to work around 11 removing the window and getting the new one installed.

The original window was a little wider than the cupola windows but we decided to make it the same width, I don’t remember how large the next size up would have been but we would have had to adjust the rough in so this was our best option.

Finished in just 2 hours which is pretty good since I was feeling pretty lazy (humidity probably).  So we’re just sitting down to some home made pizza now.  The last window in the livingroom has to be borded up and re-sided since we’re removing it.  We don’t have enough wood (need a few more 2×6’s) so it will probably not happen today.  Today I may work on stripping some more trim for the gym or something since it’s raining out again.

We finally have a full weekend to work on the house and we got right to work today. We installed the last 2 windows in the cupola in the livingroom. They were a little more work than the first three, the header had to be replaced on these so the windows would fit.

We decided to quit at 6 tonight and relax the rest of the evening. Tomorrow we’ll replace the last window and hopefully close up the other. The livingroom windows will be complete then!

Now we’re settling in for the evening, I’m watching Emma and Ryan’s working on his laptop (he got a new harddrive and windows 7 a few months ago and hasn’t yet had time to install it!).

Today we decided to tackle the windows project. This project includes a total of 9 windows to be replaced (in 2 rooms) and one window to be removed and sided. Since this is a huge project we’re doing it in stages, starting with the windows on the porch which we can do just the two of us. These large windows are quite heavy but Ryan was able to carry them out and put them in since they’re not high off the porch floor.

We took a ton of pictures so I’m going to let the pictures tell the story – unfortunately it was too dark by the time we cleaned up to take pictures of the final product so I’ll post those tomorrow. Here’s our day…

We started with the decision to do 2 windows toward the back of the cupola to start.

We had to remove all the decorative window box wood – we’ll have to redo this design with new wood.

Our new windows are a little shorter (on purpose – we’d like to be able to fit outlets under the windows), so we had to build up the bottom a bit.

While Ryan built up the first window I started taking out the second window.

Both windows all stripped down at this point and Ryan built up the second window bottom.

At this point I got started cutting felt paper and ice shield to install.

We got both windows just about prepped before installing either.

Awwww… someone’s walking on the outside walls!!!

The first window went pretty smoothly.  Of course it didn’t have to line up with anything, just be level so it was the easiest of them all.

And what a pretty window it is 🙂  At this point we decided to order some pizza for dinner so we could keep working and we also decided we could manage a third window before dark so we started the demo of the third window.

It went pretty quickly since we had the hang of it at this point.

We got the felt paper and ice shield up on the third pretty quickly.

At this point we installed the second and third windows.  They were slightly more difficult because they have to be level AND the sills all have to be level with each other since they will connect around the cupola in the window box design.  I think we managed okay and we got all the tools picked up before dark.

Unfortunately we won’t be able to continue tomorrow because Ryan has to go into the office for the day but I will post the window pictures tomorrow and whatever project I decide to tackle by myself…  so much to choose from!