hey what's up guys you have seen me put a lot of windows in fact I'll go ahead
and tag this video right here where I kind of showed how we try to properly
flash a window and make it leak proof on a metal skinned exterior well today
we've got a little bit of a different window system that I don't necessarily
like or dislike it's different so I thought I'd share it with you guys we
don't actually install the window until all of the steel has already been ran so
what we've done is behind this steel there is a window box so very similar to
the way we frame all of our windows but now what we've done is we've marked the
corners of the window box and I've got them all pencil mark and I'm gonna go
through and I'm gonna snip them out after the fact so this is kind of boring
we'll go ahead and speed this up but I'll show you what we're doing
oh okay forearms are dead so that is the first thing that I don't like about this
style it's really hard to get a pair of nibblers in there when you're cutting
right against the window frames but what you'll notice is up here at the top
we've cut it 5/8 of an inch taller it's more like 3/4 because I've learned 5/8
is too tight but three quarters of an inch taller but then we've also cut
right around the perimeter of the window jamb so now let's go ahead and take a
look at what these windows are so these come from
pleco pleco is a very big name in the post so pleco is a really big name in
the post frame industry they do all of our windows and walk doors I take that
back they do all of our walk doors but only our windows if we're going with a
aluminum window typically if we're gonna do a dark color we'll go that route
because I'm not really a fan of dark vinyl because it fades and scratches
easily but what's special about these windows here take a look at this
so the typical window it looks kind of like a replacement window but instead of
a nail thing going all the way around they have this extra large nail fin here
up top and that's what's gonna tuck up underneath our steel and this j-channel
is where the water is gonna run out over it and then what they do is they've got
this weather seal here you can see this is what gets pushed up tight up against
the wall and this covers the hole so it gives it like a boxed look instead of a
piece of open j-channel that you can see in this is like a full almost like a you
trim that's attached to this and it becomes all one piece so enough
show-and-tell let's go ahead and we'll install it and then let you guys see the
finished product and then you know exactly what it looks like one other
thing too is once you've created your opening you're
to add another 7/8 of an inch past your jam and you're gonna snip this little
channel and I always try to go on just a slight angle up right to my 7/8 mark and
if you noticed I use greens over here because it pushed the top out naturally
by the way the snips work and then I'll use my Reds over here so that it pushes
the top out on this side you see how it does that it pushes this out and it
pushes the side that I want behind back that way when I put my nail thin I
showed you it'll tuck right up in there
so the first kind of difficult thing is you've got to get it up into those
little slots and I found it's probably usually best to kind of get one side in
and then just work your other side there so once it's up as far as it'll go then
the goal is you've got to bring the top out past the framed opening so that you
get the bottom in and then take it down because there's also a little bit of a
lip down here a flange that gets tucked underneath your steel so in order to do
that I'm going to pull these couple screws
okay so how years from home to top there now remember I never said this was
quicker or better but it's different and that's how this building was designed
I know you just basically pull these steel pieces out
okay you got your levels there that good go down both sides so what we've done is
we've put our speed squares on the inside just to give us that little bit
of an eighth inch gap so we can tuck our finished rims inside but once that snuff
once that's done we'll go ahead and pack our screws back in
so once we got the window in then our goal is remember that big flange up here
that's what we're actually going to fasten with so I'm going to screw right
through the side steel and that plane
okay so I wouldn't say it's faster if different I think this is a great
application if you're doing a cold storage building that you don't want
like perfectly sealed what I don't like is that I don't really have the
opportunity to properly seal the window but it does save me the steps of having
to install the window properly seal it flash it with je channels then cut all
my steel out around it then install it this is kind of like you just get to go
fast run the steel on your wall come back cut the whole lot which is a little
cumbersome because it's hard to use any you know cordless tools but here come in
here Greg and show this seal now you kind of see the the action what we did
you can kind of see this seal how it you know snugly fits right in there into the
steel and then up here where that match was you see that's nice and tight water
that's gonna run down the goal is for it to run over and come over this trim
which is all sealed up here and work its way out this way so it's not you know
has less of a chance to get into the building so there you go not necessarily
I'm saying the best way to do something but this is a labor saver in a sense if
you get proficient at it and it get it does have a nice look to it I mean it's
a nice boxy trim so I think it looks well you know fitting on the building
and pìkô makes a really good window so it's what we've been using for years so
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