The old kitchen window (new kitchen location, old window) came out today. The old sliders that are in the house now don’t seem very old, but they are stiff to open and close, and plastic parts are broken. The new one is a triple pane casement.
The removal didn’t take much effort, but altering the framing did. By building code, if we are not enlarging the window, the original framing can be used without being required to add king, jack, or cripple studs and headers. The old window was 30W x 60H, and the new one is 30W x 40H.
The top sill was not even nailed in! It had one nail on each end, allowing it to pivot, presumably to create a slope, but you would think they’d stop it from pivoting when in place. Not so.
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We used boards from other places in the house to patch up the bottom hole. This is only temporary as it is not weatherproof.
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There is also SM‘s Xplornet receiver hanging there. What to do, what to do. I guess leave it there for potential future use.
