HOW TO Remove a Steel Basement Window

so do you have a basement window that looks something like that and you would like to remove it maybe put a glass block window in it well let's watch jeff as he removes that steel window and he can show you exactly how to do it for yourself in fact muster up the courage if you have a task like this and let's just do it but let's do it together as we watch jeff remove this window so this is a metal window frame this old frame sometimes you'll have wood frames uh in an older house and uh those present different issues than metal windows do so when metal windows are harder to get out and we're going to step through that and show you how we do that but some of the tools we use uh we've got a lot actually because outside the house is not siding it's a brick house so everything inside is concrete and outside is brick so we have to handle this in a different way so what i have is two different types of grinders i have one that will cut metal and then one with a diamond blade on it to be able to take any mortar that i have to take off the brick once we remove this window then i have a couple different sized pry bars actually three of them because once i cut this this is set and mortar we have to pry and pound with a hammer bend it to get this old frame out these old frames have fins on the inside and there's actually a slot between the block and the brick that that goes in so it takes a little work to get them out but we also have this mortar that i'm using today because we're not building these windows so i can go ahead and i'm going to use these if we were building the windows we would use a different type of glass block mortar but this this quikrete mortar mix is appropriate for the job we have i'm using straight knives today to be able to put the mortar in the joints that we do we have a mixing bucket i have a level to be able to plumb the window once we get it in i have a couple of two by fours that i also bought that i'm going to have to rip because i want to reframe before i set the window on the inside here and we'll see how we'll see how we do that i have shims shims are necessary sometimes you don't need them but we have to have them just in case we do to firm that window before we start putting in the the mortar mix and here here's the window we have here that we're putting in today because this is a drier [Music] place where the dryer goes but we got a window that has a built-in dryer vent so when you order a window like that they're going to ask you where you want that vent whether it's up here whether it would be down here or any other place that would be necessary but it's got to be specific to your need and this one is going to be up on the left left-hand corner where the old the old that is so we have everything we need um the mixing drill i don't know that i mentioned that so those are all the things that we're going to have to have to do this i have a little giant ladder so i can get up and give myself support once once i'm ready to do that window that helps me to stand safely and those are good to use for this you can use a stepladder but i prefer this so i'm going to get started okay so we're ready to take this window off now these windows they have these these slide bars and with this when you lift it this is an old rusty window we there are slots at the end of the slot it's open enough to get that notch out so i'm going to try to pry this up with the bar because it's giving me giving me some difficulty i'm going to get under the loose side there we go i'm going to get that so that loosens up be very careful with the broken glass so i can take that see how it came out the hole there so this is working well so far do that with the other side here and there the windows out all right so now what we have here this is metal so to get this out i have to cut this in half so what i'm going to do is i'm going to get my grinder i'm going to put on my goggles and i'm going to cut that i won't be able to cut it all the way through yet but i'll show you what i do because once i get this cut i can hammer it out lift it and then finish my cut okay so i've got my cutting wheel and i'm going to cut this okay so i i put that that way if i had it flip the other way the sparks and and the particles from that metal would have been coming at me so i put it that way the wheel spins there and it takes it all out away from me just i don't like getting all that in my face so i'm going to take this chisel and i'm going to like two pound hammer came off pretty easy in fact if you look at that it's rusted it'll probably i won't probably have to cut that anymore it'll probably bust right out of there again you want to be careful because anytime you do anything especially with a rusty piece like that you don't want to cut yourself you don't want things in your eyes so i'm going to take this other side out go right out now that's loose you can take this pry bar now underneath there pull it to the side and it just fell right out look at that well that wasn't too hard a lot of times when we have these are harder to get out but this one because it's so corroded was easy so now what we have to do is we have to clean this all up here and there there's like a half inch drop behind the basement wall here so that won't hit that won't affect how they make the windows because these windows come in specific sizes all right so very important that we clean clean this brick up and if you notice here you see the old motor that didn't come off we have to make this all clean so because i have to i have to frame this to a degree to get that window in so i've pre-cut some wood to do that and you'll see how how that all goes in but we have to clean up the sides also so we have a nice clean surface it's not going to allow obstruction to the to the framing we're putting in so what i do is i have this chisel and i take my hammer and we just clean this up if i have to use that grinding wheel with the with the stone wheel cutting wheel on it that's what we'll do but i don't know that that's the case [Music] [Music] i have to go from the outside on this one [Music] a little more over here looks pretty clean okay so what i'll end up doing is vacuuming this really well with my uh my shop back clean some of this up that's coming up pretty easy now we can see why that window was getting replaced so that's a real issues [Music] okay so this is cleaned up we're going to there's a little rise here in the morning then i'm going to clean that up with my grinder and just make sure that we've got a good smooth surface so here we go make sure we're all good here i think that should be pretty good and again this is dennis you've just got done watching jeff with home rehab pros remove that window you know what you can do that yourself if you have that task get the right tools educate yourself and let's just do it because i know you can you know what we appreciate you watching we appreciate our viewers and we hope you come back for the next video in fact one of the next videos will be installing that glass black window so thanks again for watching thumbs up if you really liked it and subscribe if you haven't already and we'll see you in the next video

Channel: Home Rehab Pros

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Length: 11min 6sec (666 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 19 2022