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Trimming Out Bathroom Windows

Bob checks in with Ryley who is trimming out the two windows over the vanity in the first floor master bath. The interior designer suggested that the two windows be trimmed out as one unit. To attach the broad 3 1/2 inch sill Ryley biscuits it and then screws it into the sill. The apron receives a 15 degree angled cut on each end. Ryley supports it with deadmen and then uses a nail gun to attach it. The window casing allows for a 1/4 inch reveal all around and then the header finishes the trim.

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Trimming Out Bathroom Windows

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" Normally, you just come up to a window and you trim it to put the casings on, and you put an apron in the sealant, and that's it, but the interior designer suggested that we trim both of them as 1 unit because they came in after the plate was plastered----"

" Right"

" and decided they wanna put a mirror in the middle of it."

" So this will have 1 big mirror in the middle, and this will be continuous all the way aross and on the top, so what about this?"

" Well, we'll just have to pull these wires up. The electrician will."

" Yeah."

" They'll pull the wires out. We'll cap that off and---- [unk] should go up above the mirror, Bob."

" Okay. Above the mirror."

" Right."

" So the 1st step is to figure out how to attach this rather broad sill, right?"

" Yeah. Because it's pretty long enough so it's gonna be wide, 312 inches wide. So we really can't just nail it up there."

" Yes. Well, over here where Riley is about to market."

" Right."

" We talked about how to join it there. You're gonna use the biscuits?"

" You've got it. We're gonna put biscuit it and then we'll screw it into the sill and the biscuits will help keep it flushed across the top there."

" Okay."

" It fits that 1 there. If you can hold that."

" I got it."

" Let me get the other window."

" We wanna make sure we don't miss our marks of the biscuits joined perfectly."

" Then while I'm at it I'm gonna mark where these studs are because I wanna set a 3/18 hole in here so the screws we're gonna use. Okay, let's see 1 more right there. And the screws wanna go in so that they will grab. They will really grab the meanest width of the window they can."

" Right."

" So the [unk] is just a visual aid to drill the holes straight in there."

" Right."

" Okay. Now the apron receives a 15-degree angled cut on each end."

" Right."

" And that's, I guess, customary here. That's what they've done throughout the house."

" Okay. Now, well just position it. Prompt it up with the little bench man and shoot it. Alright. We got a 1/23 and a quarter inch reveal all the way around."

" Exactly. All the same side."

" Alright. And there's our header."

" Okay. I get a good view a little bit. Right there."

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