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Learning to Install Windows
Students do the tricky (and sticky) work of installing windows in the FHB House’s hi-performance wall assembly.
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How to Install Windows in a Wall With Exterior Insulation
Mike Guertin demonstrates the entire process, from preparing the rough openings and sills to taping seams to make each window well air-sealed and watertight.
How to Install a Better Window Head Trim and Drip Cap
A few extra bends in this typical aluminum-window-flashing component makes it a more effective water-shedding detail.
Adding Head Flashing
You won’t necessarily find head flashing on windows and doors that have integral flanges because some manufacturers call for it and some don’t
Window Installation
Plumb, square, sealed, screwed, and taped — these windows are affixed to the house for a generation to come.
Backflashing Fold-out Window Flanges
Fold-out window flanges have open corners. As a backup to the stick-on patch piece we backflash the flanges with flexible flashing tape.
Episode 20: Trusses, Windows, Decking, and Foundations
In this podcast episode, host and managing editor Justin Fink talks with editor in chief Rob Yagid and design editor Brian Pontolilo about trusses, windows, decking, and foundations.
Window-Opening Preparation
Protecting the rough opening helps with air-sealing and water management.
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