Plastic window at the cottage

However, to take and easy to change the wooden frame with plastic windows are likely to fail. First - if the house is not new, the window openings in it are rather moderate, and secondly - windows and doors installed in a wooden house "on the spot" directly in the construction, that is - there are no standards in the device window, the window opening and obsade ( okosyachki) simply have no openings. That will have to instead of "replacing" the window frames to engage the device windows and openings almost from scratch ...

For you, nothing is impossible? Then let's see - what to what? In contrast to the stone buildings, wooden house is subject to seasonal and weather "fix progress." That is - the house wall are in constant motion - in the heat of "sit down" during the rainy season "swell" in the cold "frozen out" and begin to crackle, it's natural processes, and they can not ignore. Metal-window design is also sensitive to temperature changes , and linear thermal expansion of them can be quite significant, not without reason during the installation of such windows hardware installed in the 150-200 mm from the corners, just in the corners of these extensions are most noticeable. So the problem is not trivial.

You should start with the preparation of directly opening the window. Knowing the size of future window units, to determine the size it is easy: the width of the window you want to add twice the thickness of the sidewall of the future "casing", and another 40-60 mm for the heater and foam . The vertical size of the opening forward as the window height plus the thickness of Vershinnikov, plus a 20-30 mm insulation, plus a 30-40 mm clearance between Vershinnikov and top opening. This clearance is required when the device window in a wooden house - he is a "damper" in shrinkage and possible "slip" of log walls.

For a good understanding of what is at stake, Figure 1 shows the most common type of casing for a window or doorway. Specific dimensions of each part can be different - the size of Vershinnikov depends on the width of the window, the height of sidewalls of its height and the width of details - the thickness of the walls, but on the whole design looks that way.

After the prepared opening in the wall, you need some logs in the side of the opening to "spike", which skewer the sidewall of our casing: the figure it is clear that this is provided in the sidewalls of a groove. Alternatively, perhaps the same device (60 mm x 50 mm) slot on the side of the opening, and then design introduces an additional element - bar 50 mm thick and 80 mm wide, which is a layer of insulation is inserted into the groove of the opening, but already on him, again through the heater, sit down sidewall obsada.

With respect to the assembly of this structure should be noted that as the insulation is best to use the tow roll (specially designed and), or other natural material. In the first place in the wall opening is set topwood, but already underneath insert sidewall. It is clear that no rigid anchorage casing with walls of log home should not be, because the whole point of this device "box" and it is to lift the load from possible strain walls and window frames. Then the windows do not "jam", not "perezhmet" and not "skew" in any weather, at any time of year.

Further installation of window unit does not cause trouble and does not differ from the standard installation of plastic windows . In the prepared casing window assembly is exposed and fixed according to the instructions given to the window assembly, and zapenivaetsya on the perimeter.

The figure shows schematically the design of the window assembly. It is clear that the trim, covering and decorating gaps need to be fitted directly to the casing sidewalls, irrespective of the walls of the house, providing all the same "mobility" window block in the blockhouse.

Similarly, natural insulation, which obkladyvali ridges (Spike) opening, by the way, our ancestors used for this purpose the dried moss, and filled the entire space between Vershinnikov and logs the opening of our window, and then closed casing, which fasten only to the casing, that is, to the most Vershinnikov.

In fact, casing openings in the wooden house to do anyway, and wooden window frames and plastic, the other thing is that wooden windows behave similarly to the wall materials, and the casing of the opening is necessary in this case more to strengthen the wall, who drank the gap . Sidewall casing securely hold the timber log, and already as a "bonus" soften the load on the wooden window and door, so that the material will be useful to all owners of suburban Cottage .
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