I will be renovating our kitchen soon, and above the sink is a 30"x40" single paned, wood framed window. I will be altering the dimensions of the room slightly, and to get the opening of the window centered over the sink again, I need to go to a smaller width window. My initial question was do I frame the opening small enough to provide for new construction windows, or try to do a replacement? After some reading, I am leaning toward new construction windows. The exterior of the house is rough-sawn vertical cedar board and batten, and currently there is no "standard" trim type for any of the openings and the openings are not related to the batten spacing. I don't really care how much exterior siding I remove in order to make this work, because being vertical batten, it is very easy to replace, with no overlap issues as with horizontal siding, and I plan to eventually reside the structure using uniform 5" wide flat stock window trim. If I frame the RO, say, 6" narrower, do I just add 6" of exterior plywood sheathing to the new wall framing, add a corresponding piece of Tyvek, tape the seams in the membrane with flashing tape, and proceed as if the opening were monolithic, or is there something else I need to do? I was going to basically follow this guide:
http://web.pella.com/products/installdocs/Documents/vinyl_sgl-hung_fin_inst.pdf
This would be my first window installation ever, but I feel I have enough carpentry skills to do it correctly. Just let me know if there are any tricks in re-establishing a weather tight building envelope. Thanks in advance.
http://web.pella.com/products/installdocs/Documents/vinyl_sgl-hung_fin_inst.pdf
This would be my first window installation ever, but I feel I have enough carpentry skills to do it correctly. Just let me know if there are any tricks in re-establishing a weather tight building envelope. Thanks in advance.