How To Replace A Window

hi jeff liberty here with houston window experts today we're going to make a quick video for you about how you can remove a window and a brick opening maybe you're thinking about doing it yourself maybe you're hiring somebody just want to know are they doing it right we've got a much longer video than this one where we go into a lot of great detail but in this one this is just pretty much about how to get the window out we're not even talking about how to put a window in we've got a video about measuring if you haven't seen that one we'll put a link for that how to measure we measured this window earlier and then now how to take it out i'm standing here with brandon brandon is uh one of our crew leaders how long you been doing windows brandon uh six years now six years um his dad's been doing windows for 106 years he's been doing it like 20 years so this guy's done a lot of great stuff and uh he's been featuring some of our other videos as well so the first thing we should talk about is safety right that should be on everyone's list so describe what you've got going on here so our ppe requires us to wear our sleeves uh these are kevlar sleeves that's going to help us stay protected from glass protruding our skin or anything like that scratched and all that we have gloves as well that are cut they're like uh i think cut level threes is what we what we use but they have all the way up to cut level fives um safety glasses of course tarps for the outside to catch any falling glass tarps on the inside as well for the same thing steel toed steel toe shoes man we got it all you know we're dealing with glass so it can be very very dangerous so if you are doing this yourself just spend the money and just get the proper ppe so what is this uh in your hand here because anybody can take out their own window if they had one of those so this this is a glass cutter uh they sell these at lowe's home depot this one uh is sold at a not it's not at the box store it's a little bit more expensive but one at home depot or lowe's they work just as fun uh i think like three dollars a pop so all right well let's cut out a piece of glass and we'll show them how the glass comes out first so we're going to take our glass cutter we're going to go corner to corner here same thing on the other side corner to corner and since we scored it on the outside we're going to pop it from the inside so you're going to go around and you're going to tap the glass so that way that will break along that line that you just scored here with the glass cutter doesn't take much pressure at all now this is probably the most dangerous part of the install is taking out all this glass you see how this glass just comes out so easy it's barely glued in there uh right now you can see along the bottoms of here these got there's caulking there that's dried away for years so these are just almost ready to fall out it's so so so easy to take these glass out straight to a trash can now you're going to follow that same step all the way up and across the window corner to corner we score it on the outside you're going to pop it from the inside [Music] okay so we've got all of this glass out there's a couple left uh brandon ran into a problem which you might run into and we thought oh gosh we got to show you what the problem is so you know how to fix it go ahead brandon tell us what's going on so we have silicone holding in this bottom glass in right there you can see that so whenever we go to take the glass out that's going to prevent us from pulling that glass out like we just were when we had that old nasty stuff on the side here so what you're going to do is you're going to cut that loose with the knife so how do you know it's going to give you trouble i mean haven't you tried it yet you can tell just by looking at it right yeah just the consistency of it it's not dried it's still it's still applied to the glass and the frame side so looking down here with the camera see this is this is like 1950 something i know because i used to work at ace hardware when i was in high school this is called this is called glazing compound and this actually comes in a little bucket like this and you use a trowel and you put it on this is almost like a cement of sorts right and you can see that's all original that does not look like that look how this looks this tells us just by looking at it and at some point this got broke somewhere in the last hundred years this was broken and they had to replace it and of course silicone is going to hold differently than glazing compound but yeah go ahead let's try it let's knock it out over here all right so we have our glass loose you gotta just take it slow and just cut and peel it back and you'll see how it comes through you nice see this one we haven't cut yet and you see how it's not allowing me to pull it out if i pull too hard it's going to break that glass so take your knife and run that down there and it pulls right out okay so brandon got all of the glass out good job looks great and now we're going to take out these dividers and i thought it'd be a good place to just talk quick lesson here on dividers so this is what's called a mole you've heard of emollient right emollien is where you put two windows together this piece right here is a cap that holds two minutes together you'll see that again in a minute these right here are actually just called grids we call them grids now there's there's an old term for this called muttons you've probably heard of muntins okay this can also be called a mutton or a grid now in the old days right like this window this was actually three separate pieces of glass so this is what we call a true divided light they actually are truly divided in the middle by this bar now with modern windows we still see some of this but not much now this would just be one big double pane sheet of glass and the grids going over the surface or between the glass would would not be true divided light they'd be what we call simulated divided light so it makes it look like it's three individual pieces so it kind of looks like the original look of the old days but it's really not it's it's just a simulated look so tell us what has to happen now now we're going to bust these out with the hammer we're going to hit it as close to the edges here because there is a screw holding that together so take the hammer here and down with it all right next we're going to go to the inside we're going to pop these sashes out score the caulking line that connects to the sheetrock and then we'll be ready to take the frame out now we're going to bust out the meeting rails right here with with what your logs are attached to [Music] now for the mullion i'm gonna grab my sawzall we're to cut that in half and then beat that out the same way as we did the meeting rows okay so this looks like a typical opening you've eliminated everything but we're not really done here just so you know there's two types of window replacement one you would get right here you would stop you would clean all of this up and you'd have a window that would fit inside of this window it would come with a special wide frame band on it called a flange or a z bar that would end up covering this area and we leave this in place some people like doing that and it's probably okay to do that when you have a really big window but you have to remember you can have less glass when you're done if you leave this in place because you're going to put a window inside of a window so if this window was only 24 inches wide we would have been losing at least an inch inch and a quarter inch and a half on each side which would have made it too small we don't do that in texas some states require it like california it's called jumping the frame in that case but in this case we're going to take the whole frame out so show us how you pull the frame up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so this this is a little different from uh ones with nelon flanges these are held in by clips so i got to go through and take all these screws out and then we can collapse the frame like you would if there's a nailing flange so if you had a nailing fin you would continue this process but you say here on the sides you can see that they have clips that's what these screws are right here okay so time to release this from the clip and then we go back to where everywhere [Applause] [Music] all right brandon so you you've taken that out we're ready now to continue pulling i did notice that pry bar looks kind of interesting tell me about the pry bar and what's the little uh blue tape pad you've got there too okay so this pry bar is on a swivel head here there's a button that releases that swivel so this is this is uh this allows you to get into like narrow side lights areas you can just collapse it like that and then really get it in there if it was just a regular pry bar doesn't have a swivel you really have no room to do anything in a small 11-inch side light that's made by crescent i see yes it is so that guy's on the beach and we're here working right yes sweating and houston's actually so humid it is huge all right well let's keep pulling it out all right so whenever i hit this crowbar into the frame i'm going to use this blue board that i had in my hands that's kind of a pad for the brick that way we'll keep from damaging it can we tilt that okay so all the frames out the next step's going to be to clean this opening and get it ready for the new window anything you'd have to do on the mortar here it looks like it's pretty good doesn't it yep no excess mortar so i think we're ready after we get it all cleaned up you know these houses that were built years ago it seems like the craftsmanship was maybe maybe a little better i mean the brick is really nice and straight on this i notice that there's not any cracks going on here in the brick and sometimes we see that which is why we have to be very careful when we're prying against it but a lot of times too they'll have a lot of excess mortar right like squeezing out of here let the chisel that out but in this case looks pretty good okay so brandon you got everything ready now here's the new window uh we have no divided lights on this one they're modernizing the house a little bit and then this is two windows just like the other one we pulled out see that in this case though it has an actual mullion that puts these two windows together at the factory instead of being done here in field it has a little cap with it so now that we've got everything ready what's left just to set it in now screw it level it screw it down seal it up all right this is where you want some help you got some help inside got a helper in there all right here we go let's put it in me all the way in all right all the way in against the sheetrock now it's time to screw it down all right so here's where the the brains has to kick in with the brawn uh if you notice here we're using a level right to get this window level but look at something in this house right the house is not square if you look right here you'll see that there's actually daylight coming through at the top right and then it starts to to narrow its way down and it actually pinches here in about the middle it's white again at the bottom so that's what you get when when you're dealing with older homes and we'll show you what we're going to do to fix that up it's the same thing on the other side isn't it brandon yeah same same exact thing looks like it kind of bows towards the center a bit on the sheetrock and it's important for us to have this window plumb square level you know why because otherwise this will not operate as easily as it should and also this has a weep system in it so that the water if it ever did for some reason the window failed and water got inside of the frame it would be able to escape out well if we're leaning in towards the house or we're not sloping properly like we should then we're gonna have a problem with that so what needs to be done to this window so it needs to be level uh the way it sits on the brake it is not level we need to go up on this left side so let's get a shim over here in your corner okay let me check it and that is perfect there perfect there and perfect there okay so now that we have a level just to double check you can always check with your sight lines on your sash you see straight across we have an even gap from your left side to your right side about a quarter inch all the way across you can check it with your meeting rail see the gap right there the sunlight coming through between the top of the sash and the meeting rail and that is level now we add our three inch screws now that's not a substitute for using a level no it's not you got to use a level but also line of sight right because it's not just should work good it should also look good exactly and that's just confirmation so on this window it has a little plastic clip there that's a kind of a jam liner that you took off and gives us a chance to hide the screws behind there correct correct tell us what you're hitting back there i'm hitting a stud a two by four most likely the jack stud uh let's holding up the header that's running across here at the top okay so we're gonna send three on this side through there three on the other side through there we want to make sure that the there's something to bite on right i mean if you got a bite yeah so before you put your window in just take a look i just uh behind there and see where it's at locate it and remember that so that way you know where to put your screw in very nice wow perfect good job so do the other the same thing on the other side and across the top and then we will be injecting some foam into this and we're using um quad which is a product by osi we have a great video about quad sealants you might want to watch that they're the best you can use it'll help us fill up all these gaps in here and then we'll be done so thanks for watching this video if you're in the houston area come by and check out our showroom or give us a call if you're somewhere else and you'd like some information about maybe finding a great window dealer in your part of the country there's a link below you can check that out maybe we know somebody where you live maybe we can recommend someone thanks again for watching and have a great day you

Channel: Houston Window Experts

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Keywords: jeff ludy, how to replace window, diy, remodel, home improvement, replacement windows

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Length: 17min 16sec (1036 seconds)

Published: Fri May 14 2021