Octagon window and siding

[AllDodge]

Getting the materials together to vinyl side our rental house. The house has 2 octagon non-opening windows. They are wood and the molding extends out more the the J-channel.

I want to cover all the wood I can to seal it up, and I have a aluminum brake. I can bend 8 pieces on metal, and try to overlap each and use sealer of some sort. This will take some work and I'm not real sure I will like the outcome.

Thought about removing all of the exterior wood molding and then place aluminum over and around the window, then install J-channel around. Could also install Plastic trim around the window after removing the wood trim, seal and go with J around it.

Most octagon windows have a square hole which has had 2x installed to make it 6 sided. Could remove and replace the windows with a square one, but really don't want to go that route.

Anyone have any opinions?
Other forums that deal with this kind of stuff?

 

[anythingyoucanimagine]

Other forums: places like fine home building.

They sell octagon windows with integrated j channel. They actually aren't as crazy expensive as I thought they were going to be... and in hindsight, it was worth every penny.

I'd look for the cheapest octagon window with integrated J and make the hole fit the window. It's SO much easier with a nail fin and integrated J....

 

[AllDodge]

Thanks, will see if I can find what you mentioned.

Don't really want to remove the window if I can keep from it, If I do remove the window, thing I'll just change it to square.

The blur pic on the left is the house, and the one on the right is a stock pic which someone used silicone which I don't like

 

[spudley]

Get creative with the break and trim over any wood, install vinyl J around that and you're good. Make your J tight as there won't be much expansion/contraction in less than one foot pieces.

 

[AllDodge]

Can do that, but would really like to change the brick to something shorter. It sticks out past the J

 

[spudley]

They do make a wider J which may work, or remove the brickmold and replace with a thinner board.
On my garage and house, I trimmed around windows (including one octagonal),doors and corners with 1x4 cedar and placed J tight to the cedar.
I'm not a big fan of brickmold trim.

 

[anythingyoucanimagine]

Why not thin the brick moulding down? (table saw, jointer...)

 

[spudley]

Why not thin the brick moulding down? (table saw, jointer...)

Give that man a cigar!

 

[AllDodge]

Agree reducing the size or the wood around the window will reduce the amount of aluminum need to cover it. Don't know how much of a gap there is between window and framing, but will find that out if removed.

Will keep looking, thanks for all the ideas

 

[Milton Shaw]

Years ago my wife asked me to make her a pattern for stained glass. She asked for a hexagon 14 inches across. So I made her one to use as a pattern. She made a beautiful stained glass panel. Except when we go ready to put it in the door, it was an octagon instead of a hexagon. She eventually turned it into a hanging decoration and cut a piece of colored glass for the door. I have learned to count sides on anything else I do and measure for myself.

 

[mike93lx]

I would install a vinyl window way before thinking about bending all that aluminum and installing a separate j channel. Way less work