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Trimming Out the Double-Hung Windows
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Trimming Out the Double-Hung Windows
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" Bob Riley is here to give Pat [unk] a hand with some of the interior finish work, and this is probably 1 of the most unusual situations in the whole house. You've got a bank of 4 double-hung windows going all the way to a corner, and another 4 on this side that meet. How do you trim them out? Well, what's the answer to that, Riley?"
" Well Bobbie, I was willing to start out with the window itself."
" Yeah."
" You know that's their 1st thought, but we're really treating them as if they were 1 window unit."
" Yeah. As far as we're concerned, it's 1 and then where they all meet we'll be putting the mullion strip in."
" Right."
" So we've already [unk] 5, but you could see it's open a little bit on the top. I'll just slip that out and back it off. Let me get [unk]."
" Because that little bit of backing off will make it meet precisely."
" Right. On the top."
" You don't see the bottom."
" Okay. That looks good right there."
" What size nail do we shoot in?"
" It's either an 8."
" Okay. We'll get that."
" Good. Right there. Okay. Now, we'll just work it down the length of the wall."
" And this has just been ripped from a 1 x 8."
" Right. We ripped it down 134 inch."
" Uh huh."
" Okay. Then the next step is to go from the bottom up and we're gonna look at the header piece, right?"
" Right. That's exactly right."
" A little dry fitting."
" Well then we'll need 1/8 inch reveal. I mean jam."
" That is right here."
" Right."
" About 1/8 inch of the wood."
" We wanna see how this case is gonna fit up against the jam."
" Is it bowed out against the plastic?"
" It's a little bit. A little bit, so all we have to do is I'm gonna take that out and just clean out some of the sheetrock. "
" Tacking will come right out because this is gonna be hidden by the tape."
" Sometimes, it's the insulation that forces it out."
" Yeah. We need some paint over nails and something for those heads."
" Is that good enough?"
" Yeah. Looks good here. How do you like it?"
" Yeah. It looks good down here, right?"
" You don't wanna go too far at the end. It will split the wood."
" I didn't get much area to get in there."
" Go ahead. Okay."
" Take a little scribe there."
" Yeah. We'll just take that out."
" With such a long run of windows, it's more reliable to attach the horizontal pieces 1st and then do the vertical. We'll measure and cut each vertical individually to fit."
" Okay, this looks like they're pretty uniform, and they're gonna 634 so we'll take that, put it down on the table saw and then run them once through the joiner."
" This would be the mullion."
" So the joiner basically takes the edge that the saw blade has ripped and dresses it up just like a factory edge."
" Okay. That's the outer fit."
" That's got a knot in it so let's face it up this way. Got it?"
" Good."
" Okay."
