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Removing and Relocating a Window

Bob and Ryley take a look at the corner of the house where the sidewall has been removed to show the plywood and Douglas fir sheathing. Ryley explains that the gaps between the boards are there because of shrinkage over the years. He points out a bedroom window on the wall that is now in the middle of the addition. The window needs to be removed to take part of the wall down and moved to the corner so that the bedroom still has adequate light. Bob and Ryley remove the window and next, Ryley uses a reciprocal saw to cut the new hole in the sheathing. The window hole is already framed on the inside to receive the window. Ryley continues cutting as Bob starts closing in the window with studs and three quarter inch plywood. They hang the window in the new opening, level it, and nail it into place every twelve to sixteen inches.

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Removing and Relocating a Window

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" Now what is it is a good quality sheathing of the of the lumber that's done there status as back for a pilot and it's is that for a which you don't find in Colombia ads anymore I know there are photographers as a high grade apartment has been here for so long. And you can mean you're not home. Why he closes the gap in between all the boards bonuses when they put it together they about it. But it has shrunk over the years over the years the dried out frank yeah. So the idea here is that this window in this middle bedroom one of the girls' bedrooms it's smack dab in the way of the addition. Right we want to get this while often than not that they get a lot lot. The windows -- mold it right away and we want to keep released. A window here in the corner for the benefit of the bedrooms that we do it right that the wood that's right when -- ready to pull it out you have to give me a hand Pelham one nail is outside Cleveland yeah. That's. -- should come right. Right we'll set it up. Now against the house. What's next. We're gonna ready to cut the -- for the new home so that -- giving the reciprocal saw. You powered up."

" All right -- got one nice clean cut in the framing is already done in here. The Jack studs on either side in new header to receive that existing window. They got one more cut along the bottom and in the top one not. Maybe I should start closing this him I that I did the studs right frightened by -- We got we're gonna do is add plywood sheathing in here."

" But pass yeah level erratic job looks pretty good and."

" All right."

" And we're going to close this -- three quarter inch plywood which we've pre cut. I don't know it down estimates. All right we ready for the window. -- Korea and that back up there. And you're going to work from the inside not so let's hold it here a minute what you get in there. OK got the wind out of the top senses loose round OK -- like trying to salvage an old windows -- Scene sixty years well OK senate level opening. Believe it or not that's right on that are -- really. OK well we've put we are. You got -- yeah I got I got -- out. We don't want to use the same old nail -- And we want to put him in about every eight or ten inches around -- About what to sixteen -- to sixteen."

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