DIY Slip-In Window Casing for the Off Grid Cabin

[Music] we've been getting this uh unsettled weather all day rain and thunderstorms in and out I love it all right a lot of people been giving me uh slack for not trimming out the windows and the cabin so I think I'm going to work on uh building some uh trim pieces that I can slip in next time I go out there so got a couple of uh 2in strips here these are 24 in they're going to go in my uh 24x 36 in window and this is going to be the the trim piece so I've got 36 in plus the trim plus another inch so I'm just trying to figure out uh how wide I need my uh seill to be okay there's my sill and I need two more 24in pieces I think I can get those out of the cut off here all right so these are are uh actually cut 3/4 of an inch short so I have room for my uh 36 in piece here and it won't go above 24 in so I need to make that cut I've got a 36 iner I need to get cut and ripped down to 2 and 3/4 in and then I'll have everything except for my top piece of uh trim which will go across above that and that will be 2 in wide similar to this so let me go make those cuts okay [Music] [Music] now I just need my piece of 2in trim to go from here to here all right I've got all my boards cut now uh what I need to do is Notch out the bottom corner on both sides of my window seal so that it'll fit in and then I'll be ready to start gluing this up all right so I need to come in two and a qu and go up two and 3/4 so that's pretty Dam close right there come in that far up that far okay I need to cut that out on both ends all right I think the first thing that I need to glue up are the sides so I need to get these glued and pin nailed and then uh let them set up so this one and that one right over there that that's why you never hold a board with your fingers when you're using a pin nailer I've actually done that and had that go through through my finger [Music] [Music] all right I've got the frame all done and uh I've just got it dry fit right now and the reason that it's dry fit is because I still need to Route um the edges you know they're pretty crisp and I want to get those rounded over and it's it's going to be a lot easier well it'll be impossible to do completely once I get this put together so I need to uh get all of the corners rounded over before I glue this up and then I'll be able to glue this up and then I guess we're ready maybe probably do a little bit more finished sanding and uh get it stained and sealed and uh take it to the cabin all right I've got all the pieces this is all glued and pin nailed together it's all routed sanded and ready to go and uh so is the sill so all I need to do now is get the sill glued on and uh pin nailed and then uh from that point uh just just need to stain it so let me get that glued [Music] on for [Music] is for [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so I got this all glued up and it's uh pretty much ready to install except I forgot this piece that goes right here so I cut this sanded it routed it and uh it's prepped it it's ready to uh get installed so let me get that done all right so I got it all clamped up I threw a couple of pin Nails in the back and uh I guess we'll just wait let that finish uh drying up I'll probably let it sit all day probably all night and uh start working on it tomorrow little finish sanding and uh we'll get it stained and sealed all right I've given this uh couple of coats of true black uh stain from Minwax I know that uh Kevin Robinson really likes that and uh this is what I've been using for all of my trim at the cabin so uh I've been using it a lot myself but um gave it a couple of coats and I've given it one coat of uh water-based polyurethane so I've got some 150 grit uh sandpaper so I'm just going to give it a light sanding just to knock down the rough edges I like to do that on after my first coat then I'll give it a couple more coats and we'll call it good so I'm not doing a really rough sanding I'm just knocking down just you get these uh places that are a little bit raised just knock that down a little bit and then I'll rinse it off with a damp rag and we'll be ready to apply a few more coats of the polyurethane and then we should be fine all right so I just got my second coat on so I'm going to leave that to dry and cure overnight this stuff dries pretty fast um you're good to give another coat in 2 hours but I'm going to let this one sit overnight then I'll come back uh tomorrow and give it another coat and then we'll probably call it good