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Munster Joinery Window Install

  • 12-12-2016 11:10pm
    #1
    hesker
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    I picked up a couple of Munster Joinery windows and a door in their returns section in Ballydesmond. I'm intending to fit them to a garden shed / workshop I'm building but I'm not finding much info about fitting them online.

    There's one thing in particular that's puzzling. Both the windows have a protruding strip on the bottom outward edge of the window. The same edge is not present on the door.

    I managed to find a drawing online that shows a typical Munster joinery window as fitted to a Munster joinery window cill. See attached. There is no evidence of this extra strip. Does anyone know what it's for?


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  • #2
    colm_mcm
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    Strip goes in front of the window sill, rest of window sits on window sill. As in concrete sill.


  • #3
    hesker
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    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Strip goes in front of the window sill, rest of window sits on window sill. As in concrete sill.

    Cheers for reply.

    So it's an updated design feature. Admittedly the only drawing of window + cill I could find was from 2009.

    Pity they don't publish more technical info on these things.

    It seems that if I want to fit a face mounted steel flashing instead of a normal cill I would have to fit a timber strip to lift the window clear enough so that this strip would not catch.


  • #4
    colm_mcm
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    The strip comes off easily enough I'd say. It seems to just be clicked into the channel in the bottom of the window. That's the way pvc Windows used to be done back in the day anyway.


  • #5
    hesker
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    Yeah it probably is just clicked in place but it seems fairly solid. I don't want to risk breaking anything until I know for sure.


  • #6
    colm_mcm
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    You won't. If you look at the window, the bottom of it is the same profile as the sides, it has two channels on it. Just bend the trim piece outwards at the end and it'll usually just start coming out. Pvc is flexible, it won't break the window.
    Stick a screwdriver into the hollow of the trim piece and yank it out.


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  • #7
    hesker
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    Stuck the screwdriver in it this evening and it peeled right off. Looks easy to fit back on if I need to.

    Thanks again


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