So the Andersen window thread got me thinking..... How do they typically replace windows with a brick facade on the outside? My house is typical wood framing and sheeting. The best I can tell the windows went in next with a nailing flange. Then a full size brick veneer wall was set. So you cant access the window flange. I did a little looking a while back and I came across 2 different methods. The first was to take apart the bricks around the windows and have a mason reset and repair it. The other method I saw was to tear apart the window and pry the window frame in tearing out the nails and flange. Then it looks like they had a window made that fits in the hole with no flange and attach it and caulk up any gaps. Anyone had it done to there house? Experience?
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Window replacement with brick exterior?
- Thread starter gregs
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I did a huge suburban brick house from the late 40's with horrible AL windows. W/O counting right now -- at least 45. After taking the measurements the Andersen 400's fit almost all the openings the best. I had two odd ones where the replacements would come up short and two of the garage that were a bit narrow. I had a mason raise the brick line with matching brick on the two short ones and we trimmed out the garage so it looked planned. The two original openings that were long -- were odd and it was better to bring the window sill up inside anyway.
We cut the old windows from the openings with Sawzall and grinders -- a pain. In my case the french casements and regular casements with custom muntins worked best. You cut the flange off and use interior straps ... this is the only time where Caulk has to be used on a project in a big way. I used the best line of matching Sika caulk .... this house was done back in the early 90's for my office originally and the Sandtone windows and caulk have all held up.
That video above is about the process I used (i skipped through it) ---- my place had mostly plaster returns w/ marble sills. Some went back the same others got trimmed out. That video shows what look to be custom metal windows going back in and that's a very nice way to do it -- not as available when I did it and would have been more $$ vs ordering all stock at a truckload sale. But -- worth pricing out today. In my case I could have down the two garage with the Al and no way would they have looked any different from 10 feet.
We cut the old windows from the openings with Sawzall and grinders -- a pain. In my case the french casements and regular casements with custom muntins worked best. You cut the flange off and use interior straps ... this is the only time where Caulk has to be used on a project in a big way. I used the best line of matching Sika caulk .... this house was done back in the early 90's for my office originally and the Sandtone windows and caulk have all held up.
That video above is about the process I used (i skipped through it) ---- my place had mostly plaster returns w/ marble sills. Some went back the same others got trimmed out. That video shows what look to be custom metal windows going back in and that's a very nice way to do it -- not as available when I did it and would have been more $$ vs ordering all stock at a truckload sale. But -- worth pricing out today. In my case I could have down the two garage with the Al and no way would they have looked any different from 10 feet.
The new windows go in from the inside, the brick doesn't get touched unless you want a bigger window.
They remove the old window back to the framing in the wall of the opening and install a new casement window to fit along with new trim and flashing. If for some reason they can't remove the old window and it's framing or someone doesn't want to pay for all that work they remove what they can and the new casement window goes in as an insert.
They remove the old window back to the framing in the wall of the opening and install a new casement window to fit along with new trim and flashing. If for some reason they can't remove the old window and it's framing or someone doesn't want to pay for all that work they remove what they can and the new casement window goes in as an insert.
My Old Tools
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I've always seen them go in from the outside, just like the video.