If you trim, and you prefer to make your own jamb extensions, how do you cost out the material to do the job? I am talking about the most common depth, the one needed to take a stock window out to the depth for a 2×6 framed wall.
If I could buy clear pine in 1x thickness at a width of 2-1/4″, my job as a cost watchdog would be easy. My problem, though, is that my suppliers only have clear pine 1x material in widths of 3-1/2, 5-1/2, 7-1/4, 9-1/4, and 11-1/4. Each one of these is increasingly more expensive in terms of $/bf, the wider boards carrying the premium for obvious reasons.
None of those widths offer me any economy at all, because of the off-fall rips I end up with as scrap.
What do you do?
Gene Davis, Davis Housewrights, Inc., Lake Placid, NY
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If it needs jamb ext. it needs jamb ext. buy the material you need and get it done. Falloff could be used for shoe molding or kindling.
If its paint grade check popular prices.
Try 5/4" x3 and make 2 out of one.
Why not just order the windows with the correct jamb extentions ( 6 9/16s?) ? For 2x4 walls, generally they are about $12 a window - not sure about the price for 2x6 walls, but my guess would be $16. Seems pretty cheap to me. You didn't really answer my other post re your fascia details, but you see that I advocate more stock solutions. These custom solutions may at times be preferable, quality wise, but by the time you add in the on site labor, are almost always more expensive. In this case, I'm not sure I see any advantage to not ordering the windows with the correct jamb extentions.
Is this stuff to be stain grade?
Matt.
Agree with you if the framing is good.
I always find it Ezier to just make my own and make them fit instead the other way around. (brake the walls and use all the tricks of the trade to make the molding look good) If the job calls for clear pine, I make my own to fit the walls.
You may lose some time to make your own but you don't have to deal with all the other problems.
This is a catch 23?
Is this a trick question? 7 1/4 would leave the least waste I think. I buy 1x12 #2 and cut around knots, but I have been accused of being slow and having old ways on this forum before. That said I have access to good #2.
Unless you are dealing with seriously bad framing/window installation/drywall-plasterwork,(or maybe oddball windows whose makers don't provide quality extensions) why make your own...just curious....
In point of fact the Anderson extensions are quality stock, & machined so that, if you can get the extensions installed on the window before setting it, they can be side stapled into the jambs...
Save the expensive pine (or poplar) & handwork for making proper sills (5/4 with a profile & returns, instead of the 1x I see too much of) and proper returns on the aprons
Just my two cents worth...