Building A Wooden Window Frame

Dry fit the pieces of wood together to make your window frame.

Building a wooden window frame.

That said solid wood windows are beautiful and neil np over at bytown house recently put together two great articles that walk you through all the steps to build your own wood window frames. Place bar clamps across the ends of the windows and tighten. Shoot four 1 1 2 inch staples through each corner. Now that you have chosen a new window for that wall you are building you need to build a frame for it.

Glue and screw all the pieces together and cut a piece of 1 16 glass or plexiglas to fit the rabbet. If the siding needs to be cut so it butts against the edge of the exterior trim cut it out using a circular saw instead of a jigsaw. After the glue dries remove the clamps. My website is http www bucklehurstleather co uk making traditional jointed window frames mostly using hand tools and a haunched mortise and tenon joint c.

Install the new window jamb as described here. Fit the mitered pieces around the window joining the mitered corners together. Make a matching window screen. Move the wooden fence to cut the other side top and bottom of the frame opening and remove the siding.

The windows in our homes are vinyl which is definitely the standard in our area and looks great on our houses. I build a timber frame window shade awning for the west side bedroom window of our off grid cabin. Eventually we will put a solar panel on it to block the s. Framing a window opening in a wall takes nothing more than the basic carpentry skills of measuring cutting and nailing.

One project we haven t tackled yet is building our own windows. Cut the ends of the leftover pieces at a 45 angle and fit them into the rabbets to hold the glass in place. If the pieces fit well you can use wood glue to glue them in place.