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| I have a brick home, and I’m remodeling a 1950’s bathroom. The current window is glass block, with a tiny double hung window in the center. The current window is 37” wide X 49” high. I would like to keep the width of 37”, and decrease the height to about 39” (whatever 6 - "8” glass blocks are in height. I want to install a casement window, a vertical 2x6, and a single strip of glass block. My question is what do I do for an outside window sill? What should the glass block and the casement rest on? Do you know any resources showing how this is done? |
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- Posted by HomeSealed (My Page) on Fri, Mar 8, 13 at 16:40
| Do you have a picture or drawing? I'm having a really hard time envisioning that. Is the glass block currently set in the masonry, or in the rough framing? |
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| Masonry house (two wythes of weight bearing brick) or brick veneer (one layer of brick over a wood frame house? |
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- Posted by Geoffrey_B (My Page) on Tue, Mar 12, 13 at 11:14
| I'm in the process of demo'ing the bathroom (floor to ceiling tile set in mud and metal lath). I'll get some pictures of the window soon. |
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- Posted by Geoffrey_B (My Page) on Tue, Mar 19, 13 at 11:22
| I want to decrease the height of the current window (from the bottom), and replace it with a strip of glass block ( the magenta rectangles) and a casement window. The red is the framing I'm going to add. The casement is going to be set into the opening, I can get an Anderson 400, built to the exact size of the rough opening, so this is no problem. The green is the window sill that I'm having problems figuring out how do it. Internally, the glass block and the window have to rest on something and I figure it needs to be waterproofed? The sill needs to slant downward. How do I tie all these elements together? |
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| Modern windows are not really designed for masonry openings. You often end up having to instal some wood framing to anchor the window. I would dread the idea of using Tapcons into masonry on a modern window. |
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- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Thu, Mar 21, 13 at 12:00
| +1 A buck frame is usually required to get a really good attachment point. |
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