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Windows for summer house

  • 17-03-2018 2:43pm
    #1
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭


    Is it feasible to just use the sealed inner portion of double glazing - not the pvc surrounds, and set them into a wooden frame in a timber summer house? I don't want the pvc on show and would prefer to mock up a surround with timber. Obviously just panes, not openable windows.


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  • #2
    my3cents
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    Yep done that myself with just the plane double glazed glass. Used the std timber you get for a door frame as the top and sides and made up a cill out of iirc some 8 by 2 timber. The cill made up the bottom of the frame. Double glazing glass was about 30 x 30. Lots of silicon plus a wooden strip to hold the glass in.


  • #3
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Great, thanks, I figured it might be - and it has the added benefit that I don't have to worry about the condition of the pvc!


  • #4
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Also soaked the wood in Protim as I used softwood and bedded the bottom of the panes on the cill on a couple of plastic spaces made for the job. That way the glass is supported on two points and the support position doesn't change if the wood wraps a bit. One other tip leave a decent gap above the top of the frame and the load bearing parts of the wall so there is no way you can ever get put pressure on the frame from above which could lead to the glass cracking.


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