DIY New Window Installation Made Simple

Hey guys, it's Lindy and it's Mike here and this is TIY the tiny yourself channel And today we're gonna show you how to install windows. Yep. We're gonna do one window from start to finish So hopefully you'll learn something. All right, let's do it Do it. Okay. So here are the supplies that we'll be using today We have our leftover tape for when we did our house wrap. We have a measuring tape We have our flashing tape that goes around the windows You have a quarter inch recycled wood shims we have our drill we have these nifty screws some scissors a Sharpie and then our sure corner kind of helps stabilize the corner of our windows All right So when you're putting your windows in of course You should already have your house wrap on and because the house wrap is on I can't really see the window I could just go inside and kind of do all the marks and cuts from the inside But it's easier to see what's going on from this angle So right now I'm just finding exactly where the corners are and I'm putting a mark All right now we are going to mark with a Sharpie the lines that we're going to cut the house wrap on and We're essentially gonna wrap it inside a bit like a present and that way we will protect the frame from moisture We have a metal frame here So it's not as moisture damage prone as a wooden frame, but we're still gonna do the same process and so what we do is essentially a upside down wine glass and I'm gonna do it in a way where we're gonna have a solid four inches here to just fold down onto the bottom frame And so we start with that diagonal line Coming out to four inches. I'm gonna map four inches out here diagonal line here, and I'm just gonna go like that and Now we have our bottom cut line and then we're gonna do an incision that goes Straight up the middle all the way up and that's since this is a 36 inch window That's gonna be about 18 inches in which is right there And then we're gonna cut the top just at the top line. Just straight the whole way and I can sort of track track the top right there with the marker and Then I'll look at the 18 inches. This doesn't need to be really precise because this is slack. That's gonna be trimmed off anyway And I can probably find it. It doesn't even really matter That and then we have our corners here Which come out at a diagonal angle like this and this is gonna fold over the top of the window as you will see in A second. All right, so let's cut All right, so now to adhere the house wrap down to the inside of the frame I'm just gonna use a little bit of that house wrap Attack a little bit on each corner and we have this nice floppy extra slacky piece here And it's catching the wind. So we're gonna also cut that down to the four inch thick frame and tape it in the same manner Okay, so now that we've folded in the house wrap you can see that there's this little exposed area in the corner here So we got these from our local hardware store and they just sit in here like so to help cover that Exposed area and then the window goes on top of them and we just wanted to make sure that we had extra kind of protection for this area because it does sit below our Valley here, which means it'll have a lot of excess moisture coming So in this corner We have a little bit of a unique situation because we're doing two windows side by side and we have a four inch post in Between them if we were just put this in there, it would obviously overlap here So we're just gonna have to trim it up so that it sits nice and flush with this other one right here Okay, so this is nothing fancy. We're just gonna mark out where it overlaps and then cut it with just simple scissors So this is our behemoth of a window it's 36 by 54 and we have two of them right here This other one's already been installed and we're just gonna unbox it a little Okay. Now you can really get an idea of the nailing flange essentially just this thin piece around that will adhere that will anchor it down to the wall and That is going to be done with these screws So it's really a screwing flange in this situation and we're using those a lath or truss headed screws here The ones that don't have a sort of countersink situation here So they're not gonna pierce through this flange, which is relatively thin and create issues It said it has a nice wide head and we went with a one and five eighths inch just so I could get into our metal Framing but if you have wooden framing you might want to go a little bit further So your rough opening size is the size that matches the actual hole that you've cut but the window itself will actually be smaller than So that is why you need to use these little guys Which are shims to basically hold the window in place and to level it off So we need to do the bottom of the window first Which means we'll be cutting shims to fit down here and we'll be cutting about five of them for the window to rest on And they will be about the length of the inside of this window here, which you'll see in just a second Alright, so this is a side view of our window this is the inside and this is the outside and so the shim is the width of the inside which Looks like it's about one and a half inches and so we're gonna cut the shims to that length So when you're designing a tiny house on wheels the street legal limit is eight and a half feet So you really have to keep in mind like everything that's gonna bump out from your trailer like lighting fixtures everything and that actually includes The windows as well since these don't sit flush into the house You have to add this amount as well popping out from the trailer Yeah, so we have about an inch and a quarter here So that brings you from the outside of your OSB if that was eight foot three This would be basically eight foot five and a half and that's about what we're doing right now So you got to be careful about this stuff So now you can see what the shims look like There is a gap there and that will be spray foamed and then the next step is to make sure that it is Plum it is level vertically and in order to do that We're gonna put some shims on the right side and then it should all happen because right now on the right there's no gap And then on the left, there's about a half of an inch gap All right, it's a little hard to see what's going on I can't even see my face But Lindy is pushing the window in from the outside and we are gonna push the window over and put this shim in and then We should be good to go All right Now you can see what's happening and it is even all the way around and let's see if it's level and it is now perfectly Plum and level so we are golden. Okay, so before you screw your windows in place. You want to make sure that This flap is actually sitting over the frame of them This is gonna help wick moisture away from the window. So to hold the window in place We're gonna put screws in each corner and then we're gonna go back around and do 16 inches Okay, now that we've done all of our screwing It's time to do our flashing and you have to start at the bottom and you have to have four inch overlaps on all sides and then once you've done the bottom you do the sides and then the top is last and the idea is You want to think about how water travels down the building so we don't want any water in any of your seams now We weren't really thinking when we did this side because we have a unique like window situation here if I was to do it over I would have done one long continuous strip on the bottom But we're just gonna end up doing two pieces and it won't be that big of a deal and then these will also share a piece in the middle will be obvious which side is which because Obviously this has a protective coating that you just peel off and then this is super freaking sticky So once it's down, you cannot get it off. So make sure it's placed, right? So once you have it aligned and you press it down make sure that you go from one end to the other to get All the bubbles out and you can get cuz I'm kind of like pressing mechanism and really like roll it down But I think your hands will be okay. Okay. So now we are doing the vertical strip Same process as before And I want to mention that we just laid these out in a table use a tape measure to cut the right length mark out the sharpie and then cut it with scissors and So the top here is gonna go under that little flap All right. Now we're gonna do one long top strip and not have any seams or things like that. So let's try it It's gonna go again under that little flap. All right, it's starting to get dark But now we're gonna do our final step Which is just the house wrap tape along the whole side and over those diagonals So no water gets in so we're actually cutting off a little bit of that Flap because otherwise there's nothing for it to stick on to and it gets a really awkward joint right here So this way there will be contact for the tape. I already did part of it right here You can see it's getting good contact now And now Lindy is doing the finishing touch getting that diagonal slit fully weatherproofed with that tape All right on this other window we're gonna experiment with another method and that is using this product called sill sealer It's essentially just a thin strip of foam which is gonna act as a thermal break between our metal framing Which is particularly conductive and our window so it should prevent some heat loss and normally if you had wood You could probably just staple it right in but since we have metal here I think we're gonna have to tape it and I'm gonna tape Starting at halfway up on the right instead of the corner so that we don't have a weak spot All right, let's go So we're just doing the same process as we did with the other window now that we have this extra sealant We are just placing our shims on top of that So we started popping it in with the sill sealer and the shims on top like we just showed But the hole became a little bit too small We popped the shims out and then now it's fitting perfectly just with the sill sealer It was able to close the gap and make it fit quite snugly. So we're feeling good about that Another thing I like about the idea of sill sealer on a moving tiny house is it's kind of like a nice little padded buffer thing So that maybe when things shift it will prevent a window cracking Hopefully that won't be a problem anyway, but it's just one more added feeling of security All right. It's the next day and we have some good lighting here so you can see the final product The windows are officially done now. We got our corner all taped up nice and our window flashing on and it's looking great Well, we hope you learned something today and let us know if you're gonna do anything cool with your window placement We've messed around with the idea of doing like stained glass, but we don't know yet Yeah, we're not sure and then we're actually making our own windows in the future Hopefully we'll get a video out on that because that's gonna be a pretty complicated process. So All right. Thanks. 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