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  #1 Dickson Nash on 12 Aug 13

   

  Final week, I told you how to measure for your vinyl replacement windows when replacing aluminum windows. Now that you happen to be ready to order your new vinyl replacement windows, we require to talk about the various frame style alternatives available. In most of the country your options are restricted to either new building or replacement frames. New building frames come with a nailing fin to attach the frame to the studs during the building of the new house. The replacement frame is essentially the new building frame minus the nailing fin.
  
  But in the west, where stucco houses are frequent, companies came up with a third type of frame known as a retrofit frame. Study Window Restoration is a provocative online database for additional information about the inner workings of this concept. The retrofit frame has a fin about 2 inches wide, located flush with the outdoors face of the window. This is the ideal decision when replacing old windows, but not all jobs will accomodate a retrofit frame application. So let's talk about how to figure out which frame is going to work for you.
  
  If you have a stucco exterior, retrofit is the way to go. You install the new window from the outdoors, and the flush fin covers the old aluminum frame that you are going to leave in place. Then you screw the new window in using deck screws via the side channels as effectively as the leading header. We will get into much more detail on the actual installation in a future post. If you know anything, you will seemingly need to discover about found it. If you have a stucco exterior, but there is a wood trim around the opening of the window where the flush fin would typically go, you can nonetheless use the retrofit style frame. Visit this webpage source to read the inner workings of this thing. You would require to get rid of the wood surrounding the opening, install the retrofit window, then obtain and set up new wood trim. The old trim will no longer fit considering that the retrofit window frame dimensions will be bigger in width and height than the old window frame. An additional option is to install the retrofit fin on best of the wood trim. You can do this as lengthy as the depth from the face of the wood trim to the point in the residence of the innermost portion of the old aluminum frame is much less than 3 inches deep. The reason is because a excellent good quality retrofit window will have a three inch frame depth from the back of the flush fin to the innermost portion of the frame. That innermost part demands to be further into the home than the innermost part of the aluminum frame so that the aluminum frame will be hidden right after we apply the inside trim. What if you have brick around the window openings? Or siding? Then what? Well, if you can set up the window against the face of the brick or siding and nevertheless have the innermost element of the 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 use trim to finish the outside. If you are in a position to get a retrofit frame with a reasonably thin fin, you can also trim down the fins so the window fits in between the brick or wood. That would eliminate the require to trim out the outdoors. Some producers of retrofit frames will have grooves in the back of the retrofit fins. You merely run a utility knife in the groove until you are capable to break off that piece of the fin.
  
  The main point to bear in mind when determining regardless of whether or not to use a retrofit frame or a normal replacement frame is that in order to use the retrofit frame there demands to be significantly less than 3 inches from the outdoors point exactly where the flush fin will rest to the inside point in the area where the old frame ends. If it's much less than 3 inches, go with the retro, more than three inches, use the replacement frame and add trim to the outdoors in lieu of the flush fin.
  
  Subsequent week I am going to clarify the approach of removing the old aluminum window.Wooden Window Inc
  111 Rhode Island St
  San Francisco, CA 94103
  (415) 357-1370
  http://woodenwindow.com
  
  Wooden Window, Inc
  1900 South Norfolk Street
  San Mateo, CA 94403
  (650) 239-5239
  http://woodenwindow.com

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Final week, I told you how to measure for your vinyl replacement windows when replacing aluminum windows. Now that you happen to be ready to order your new vinyl replacement windows, we require to talk about the various frame style alternatives available. In most of the country your options are restricted to either new building or replacement frames. New building frames come with a nailing fin to attach the frame to the studs during the building of the new house. The replacement frame is essentially the new building frame minus the nailing fin. <br /> <br /> But in the west, where stucco houses are frequent, companies came up with a third type of frame known as a retrofit frame. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wooden-Window-Inc/226327550822613?sk=info" rel="nofollow">Study Window Restoration</a> is a provocative online database for additional information about the inner workings of this concept. The retrofit frame has a fin about 2 inches wide, located flush with the outdoors face of the window. This is the ideal decision when replacing old windows, but not all jobs will accomodate a retrofit frame application. So let's talk about how to figure out which frame is going to work for you. <br /> <br /> If you have a stucco exterior, retrofit is the way to go. You install the new window from the outdoors, and the flush fin covers the old aluminum frame that you are going to leave in place. Then you screw the new window in using deck screws via the side channels as effectively as the leading header. We will get into much more detail on the actual installation in a future post. If you know anything, you will seemingly need to discover about <a href="http://plus.google.com/106455371604352395645" rel="nofollow">found it</a>. If you have a stucco exterior, but there is a wood trim around the opening of the window where the flush fin would typically go, you can nonetheless use the retrofit style frame. Visit this webpage <a href="http://plus.google.com/104009790703456608884/" rel="nofollow">source</a> to read the inner workings of this thing. You would require to get rid of the wood surrounding the opening, install the retrofit window, then obtain and set up new wood trim. The old trim will no longer fit considering that the retrofit window frame dimensions will be bigger in width and height than the old window frame. An additional option is to install the retrofit fin on best of the wood trim. You can do this as lengthy as the depth from the face of the wood trim to the point in the residence of the innermost portion of the old aluminum frame is much less than 3 inches deep. The reason is because a excellent good quality retrofit window will have a three inch frame depth from the back of the flush fin to the innermost portion of the frame. That innermost part demands to be further into the home than the innermost part of the aluminum frame so that the aluminum frame will be hidden right after we apply the inside trim. What if you have brick around the window openings? Or siding? Then what? Well, if you can set up the window against the face of the brick or siding and nevertheless have the innermost element of the 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 use trim to finish the outside. If you are in a position to get a retrofit frame with a reasonably thin fin, you can also trim down the fins so the window fits in between the brick or wood. That would eliminate the require to trim out the outdoors. Some producers of retrofit frames will have grooves in the back of the retrofit fins. You merely run a utility knife in the groove until you are capable to break off that piece of the fin. <br /> <br /> The main point to bear in mind when determining regardless of whether or not to use a retrofit frame or a normal replacement frame is that in order to use the retrofit frame there demands to be significantly less than 3 inches from the outdoors point exactly where the flush fin will rest to the inside point in the area where the old frame ends. If it's much less than 3 inches, go with the retro, more than three inches, use the replacement frame and add trim to the outdoors in lieu of the flush fin. <br /> <br /> Subsequent week I am going to clarify the approach of removing the old aluminum window.Wooden Window Inc <br /> 111 Rhode Island St <br /> San Francisco, CA 94103 <br /> (415) 357-1370 <br /> <a href="http://woodenwindow.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://woodenwindow.com</a> <br /> <br /> Wooden Window, Inc <br /> 1900 South Norfolk Street <br /> San Mateo, CA 94403 <br /> (650) 239-5239 <br /> <a href="http://woodenwindow.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://woodenwindow.com</a></div>

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