Back Window Casing Install At The Off Grid Cabin

[Music] all right back at the cabin and uh today what I want to work on is getting these uh window casings installed I've got one here for this back window and I've got one for the front window right here so hopefully these are going to just slip right in and uh installation will be easy but uh we'll find out but before I get to the installation I know that it's not going to fit here until I I've got to get all this foam cut out so uh it'll have the so it'll be able to slip in so let me uh and I need to take these uh curtain rods down as well so let me do a little bit of prep work and uh then we'll see if this casing is going to fit [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right let me get the vacuum out and uh we'll get this all cleaned up [Music] all right it's all cleaned up here's a moment of truth all right it's just too tight I cannot get this in so I'm going to have to pull this out and um widen the opening a little bit see if I can get that done okay I don't know if you can see it or not but the 2x4 is Twisted slightly this way so it's making it bind up in the back so I've cut away right here making it you know at a 90° instead of at a I don't know 80° or I guess that'd be 100° so I'm going to do that looks like up to here anyway halfway up before it straightens out and uh we'll see if that helps it on this end and on this end I'm not totally sure what the what the problem is might be the same type of thing but uh that's you know really all I can do is use my multi-tool and shave off a little bit go on up here and probably do the same thing over here [Music] so this sheating right here is just sticking down uh past the uh the window frame right here so little things like that I think the lesson learned here is that I built the casing too tight the tolerance is too tight I should have given it like an eighth of an inch all the way around to uh accommodate for things like this um it would have fit in just as well would a sealed just as well um so next time I'll keep that in [Music] [Applause] mind all right I've got that uh trimmed back all the way around all four sides um so now just let me vacuum that out and we'll give it another try all right I can go ahead and permanent ly install that all right I got that one in um it didn't slip right in it was still a little bit snug had to give it a little bit of tap with my hand and uh but then it went in so I've got that one in all right I feel good about the fit it's right up against the window here and then if we look over here it's the trims right up against the wall so I feel good about that but uh I really uh I messed up when I built this casing I I measured the window opening at 24x 36 and that's what I built that casing to what I should have done is made it a/4 in less on the width and the height that would have given me an eighth of an inch all the way around and then that would have allowed it to slip right in even with the uh tolerances so uh if you guys are going to be doing a casing like this make sure to whatever you measure the frame out subtract a/4 inch and build your casing to that measurement and uh it'll go in a lot easier than than mine did so as tough as this was with just a single opening this one over here is going to be twice as tough with two openings so yeah that one's going to be a challenge