Home Improvement.
I have a window in my bedroom that has seen better days. it’s better days have seen better days. Yesterday I intended to go look at it to see if I could determine what I could do to help it limp along, and I grabbed a punky looking piece of the sill, and it came off in my hands. So I figured, I guess today is the day I have to do this.
I managed to get a reasonable cross section of the old sill cut out, and I used the table saw to get as close as I could to the original profile. I pulled out the punky wood and cut back to good, dry wood, and I made the replacement out of PT. Screwed and glued it in place, put in new stainless screws for thew whole assembly, and called it a night. Need to fix a couple of pieces of trim now, and recalk and repaint, but I no longer have to lie in bed when it rains and wonder if there’s water getting into the house through the rotted sill.
It’s nice when circumstances force your hand and take away all possible excuses for procrastinating.
Tat is exactly correct, Harry.
I was remodeling my kitchen years ago.
Pulled away drywall from around he kitchen window. Saw a 2×4 with a small hole in it.
Then saw a carpenter ant crawl out.
I was amazed at how many came out after I poured diazinon in there. Whole 2×4 was hollow!
Stainless screws was a good touch on your part.
So in other words, you re-booted Windows?
*serpentine run!*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
lol.
I have a window in the bedroom I need to do this with. Years ago, Dad built a linen closet in the corner of the room, and to make it fit, he had to cut out about half the trim on the right side of this window (and chop off the sill, too, of course). The linen closet is long gone, but he never went back to fix the trim and sill. And of course it leaks cold air like a sieve in the winter.
The windows need replaced anyway, but no matter whether I replace the entire window or just the guts (and it’s questionable at this time which way I’m going to go with that), I’ll still have to remake the sill.
time to fix it. I had to laugh at Jim though.
Nathan, if yours is a frame home, I’d do the whole window. I did this because it’s limestone I’m dealing with. Bloody difficult to replace the whole unit.