Yesterday, all eleven stairwell windows were installed along with the three windows in the south bedroom, which is quickly shaping up as this year's 'must have' bedroom.
The first part of the project was actually Operation Defenestrate Fife, wherein the windows had to be surgically extracted from the manufacturer. If you've never been to a fiberglass window manufacturing facility, well, it's huge and loud and kind of smelly in a solventy way, but really clean and full of trucks. I had to wedge my rented truck, which you can tell is a real gem, in between the many semis picking up much larger orders than mine.
As it turns out, I may have rented a little too much truck, but I wasn't really sure how much space the windows would be taking up.
On my way back from Fife, I passed this huge bus fire on I5 going in the other direction. It was scary. The bus was fully engulfed in flames, tons of black smoke everywhere, and it was really, really hot.
I had to call in reinforcements to get the larger windows into the south bedroom. Fortunately, I know a lot of teachers who do nothing but sit around and eat bonbons all day every day in the summer, so I gave Thatcher a call and he dropped the bonbons and was right over to help me muscle in the big guys.
Next, the stairwell one by ones. I figured out a good method to 1) get the windows in and level and 2) not fall off the ladder by the second window. Which means, of course, that I only had to do a do-over on the first one I did.
I stacked all the windows on my building platform inside and pulled them out one at a time to install. First I would put a bead of caulk around the window hole. Then I put a deck screw in one of the side holes of the window so that it would stay in the wall and I could still adjust it for level. After I levelled it, then I pounded in 2'' roofing nails through the rest of the holes in the fin. Wash, rinse, repeat times 11.
The window on the tippy top left is the only one that I had to redo.Too pretty for captions. I thought I might have broken the client's camera, but no.
2 comments:
you are a very funny man.
How long must we wait for the next turgid installment of Upstairs and Downstairs??
We on the east coast are growing impatient as we eagerly await another posting. Maybe the Client can post a few items during this interim silent period, eh?
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