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Final week, I told you how to measure for your vinyl replacement windows when replacing aluminum windows. Now that you are prepared to order your new vinyl replacement windows, we need to have to talk about the different frame style alternatives available. In most of the country your selections are limited to either new construction or replacement frames. New construction frames come with a nailing fin to attach the frame to the studs in the course of the construction of the new property. The replacement frame is fundamentally the new building frame minus the nailing fin.

But in the west, exactly where stucco houses are common, producers came up with a third sort of frame known as a retrofit frame. The retrofit frame has a fin about 2 inches wide, located flush with the outdoors face of the window. This is the ideal decision when replacing old windows, but not all jobs will accomodate a retrofit frame application. So let's go over how to figure out which frame is going to function for you.

If you have a stucco exterior, retrofit is the way to go. You install the new window from the outside, and the flush fin covers the old aluminum frame that you are going to leave in spot. Then you screw the new window in using deck screws via the side channels as well as the leading header. We will get into a lot more detail on the actual installation in a future article. If you have a stucco exterior, but there is a wood trim around the opening of the window exactly where the flush fin would typically go, you can still use the retrofit style frame. You would want to eliminate the wood surrounding the opening, set up the retrofit window, then acquire and set up new wood trim. The old trim will no longer fit given that the retrofit window frame dimensions will be larger in width and height than the old window frame. An additional choice is to install the retrofit fin on top of the wood trim. You can do this as lengthy as the depth from the face of the wood trim to the point in the residence of the innermost portion of the old aluminum frame is significantly less than three inches deep. The cause is because a great quality retrofit window will have a three inch frame depth from the back of the flush fin to the innermost part of the frame. That innermost part needs to be further into the residence than the innermost element of the aluminum frame so that the aluminum frame will be hidden following we apply the inside trim. What if you have brick around the window openings? Or siding? Then what? Well, if you can install the window against the face of the brick or siding and nonetheless have the innermost portion of the vinyl frame be further into the property than the old frame, then you can use the retrofit style frame. If not, then you have to use the replacement style frame,then use trim to finish the outside. If you are in a position to get a retrofit frame with a reasonably thin fin, you can also trim down the fins so the window fits between the brick or wood. That would eliminate the want to trim out the outdoors. Some companies of retrofit frames will have grooves in the back of the retrofit fins. You basically run a utility knife in the groove until you are able to break off that piece of the fin.

The main point to keep in mind when figuring out whether or not to use a retrofit frame or a regular replacement frame is that in order to use the retrofit frame there demands to be less than three inches from the outside point where the flush fin will rest to the inside point in the room exactly where the old frame ends. If it really is less than three inches, go with the retro, much more than 3 inches, use the replacement frame and add trim to the outside in lieu of the flush fin.

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