How To Install Window Trim with Jamb Extensions Easy.

ah welcome Jeff from Ottawa designed a bill here again today going to show you some tips and tricks on doing finished carpentry for windows what we have is we got a builder window with the Builder jam this Jam came to the extent that that's what came with the window they screwed it in here you go unfinished basement now it's up to you to finish it so there's two options one we can rip up the jam that's here or we can just extend it so what we're going to do is just extend it it's a little simpler production we don't risk damaging the window so just going to start we've got to clean off a little bit of this extra plastic out of our hair here make sure your site is clean because what we're going to do is we're going to install a little bit more of the same three quarter inch pine alright so as long as I can see what's existing I'm going to be comfortable that I can install the new we have to custom-make four pieces of trim here because you can't just buy this standard you want to finish right to the surface of the drywall so what I do is I take something flat across the corner I'm going to measure and make a mark of that stick and here we go that is three and three quarters make your life simple right around the frame okay and that'll be the same mark for that depth on this piece of wood end this one we're going to take the same measurement here it is the same and the reason we got to do all four quarters because when the Builder installs the window they're in a hurry and they're going to just make sure it fits to the relatively the right location and a lot of guys especially with basement windows that put it on an angle so that it helps to drain the water don't ask me why I think the windows are built to drain anyway but if you get it on a twist here you go this is three and a half or its installed crooked this way it's still going to look fine from the other side so going to a seal it's going to function properly but you can't finish it by going to the store and just buying wood and this one's going to half so reality if it was all three and a half I could just go buy a piece of one by four that's three and a half inches if I do that now I'm going to have this corner over here I'm going to have big gaps it's going to look like garbage so what I do is I usually buy a bigger piece of wood usually I go one by eight and then I'll just rip all four pieces nail it together and then I'll have a perfect every time so what we have here we have our thickness of our wood we also need to have the actual dimensions so we'll take an outside dimension of the window I would side of that jamb to the outside of the jamb is 55 and 7/8 we're going to add an eighth for each side 56 and then 8 okay so that what we're going to have is our pine is going to come just a little bit inside and it leaves me a place to put caulking because whenever you're ripping wood down and going from different dimension you can't use the table saw guide your clear cutting by hand so you're going to need that some cocking so make your new window Jim just a little bit wider than what it is now and they don't find that very easy here that's an actual 23 and a half so we're going to go with by 23 and we'll go five-eighths because I want to keep it flush as I can on the bottom all right so now we got our numbers we're going to go to the table saw we're going to cut all this lumber down and then I'm going to come back and I'm going to assemble it for you so you can see how to build it and stick it in the hole [Music] all right so now we've got my lumber cut just wanted to show you what I've done is I've marked it all so I got bottom top left and right side so I'm going to build it like I'm outside the building looking in keep that factory clean edge down there there's the top piece okay right and left very important we get that proper at the right and the left well it cuts so good I can hardly tell which one is which all right here we go and the reason we want to build it like this is because the floor is relatively flat so all the factory edges will be flat and that'll be the surface that's on the outside of the drywall we'll put the casing so that keeps all of these elements proper you can see that when you table saw on an angle freehand it's not always perfect it doesn't matter because we're going to be caulking that joint anyway so the most important on here is what does this look like when the casing is comes in contact square it off now all this together very important by the way when you're using this kind of nailer I'm using a two inch nail don't have any fingers or anything within two inches of where you're nailing these things have a tendency of having their own mind you can just fire off and well you don't want to have it finger there when a down pops okay now we have this I'm just going to make sure that it's nice and square [Music] trace of mark now I'm going to measure for my casing so I've got outside measurements sorry inside measurements is twenty two and one about 1/8 the top and bottom I'm going to go 22 and 1/2 now you want to add the thickness of your casing times two reason three and a half inch trim which is beautiful so that seven says 29 and a half inches and then we'll do the same for the side I check the inside measurement 54 and 7/8 now what I'm taking that measurement I'm adding them a little bit about an eighth on each side so that my casing comes shy of the edge again so that I've got a joint there that I can caulk has a nice clean finish add the 7 inches again so I'm up to 61 7/8 alright I love using shims as a note pad we'll go cut all four pieces of trim come back and tell it [Music] okay so now we have all of our casings cut we're going to take our jamb extension flip it upside down rule and we're going to nail all this together now so the reason I'm doing it this way is because walls are incredibly uneven even when you frame it yourself and do your own drywall there's always little imperfection form so what I found is if I build something like this first and then I install it my joints are always perfect what I do is I put the glue on there second let me get a perfect eye first [Music] it's a perfect joint setup with a nail all right now I always blew my joints first because wood does suffer the effects of expense and contractions especially in the window and the other side of the house so if you put glue on what you're doing is bonding all that because there's a grows and expands together and you won't suffer all that crack and you usually get the window trim over time and the reason I try to do this on top of the box because I've had problems before where I've now put all together against the subfloor and like I talked about those Brad nails they fire off in different directions to go right into the floor I me get stuck to the floor or the phone rings and somebody calls in a window glues to the poor [Music] [Music] okay now I'm going to put my window position go back and sit yeah [Music] [Music] start in this corner now [Music] they're square off the frame underneath [Music] tagging so traditionally with this kind of wind installation you build your dam you install the jam your shim around your nail at all in place then you add the casing the reason I like doing this is it quickly simple no one's ever going to be crawling out of this window and so I'm just going to build up my shim pack now on each side and I stick my window in place it's going to sit on this my gap should be perfect and then I can just nail it all in place all at one time there we go let's see if we're overdue [Music] pretty damn please maximum volume using two inch nail a fire right rings and into my 2x4 wall [Music] [Music] so we're going to trim off a little bit of plastic that's sticking out all you've got to do now stick your cocking gun concur with gaff will your nail holes your edges and then paint if you're enjoying these videos subscribe to the channel hit the 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Keywords: jeff thorman, home reno, renovation, bathroom, do it yourself, diy, how to, tutorial, step by step, finishing window, window casing, finishing windows, window framing

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Length: 12min 24sec (744 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 23 2017