The biggest thing that will kill ya, it looks from that small picture you actually have a home that used good wood detail and that's what gives the place character, but with character comes maintainence.with cap work there will be no way at all to replicate, duplicate any of the detail work you have with the wood trim, it will just turn into blah plain smooth looking coverings. Was'nt often we could ever make a template and run off the jig to bend a entire house, each opening typically has something different be it from wood swell/shrinkage differences, somebody's repair at sometime being 1/8-1/4" different than the other side of the opening, etc.If the area would support selling cap work at $80/opening I would give some serious thought into just doing that on the side now that I have a "real job" lol, but I just despise it since it's time consuming so it looks and functions correctly. I've seen some disgustingly botched cap jobs over the yrs, I could make a nice niche living just doing cap work but I hated it, compared to all the other things in construction we could get in and get out and turn some good profit, capping windows is not a fast job, it takes time since each piece is custom bent, cut, fitted PER opening. Make no mistake, it takes somebody that knows what they're doing to make a capped window not only look good, but function properly. Use an acrylic caulk or if your good and have a good gun, a butual caulk, they will adhere strong and hold up for yrs to come. Run a sawzall blade down between the outside of the brickmold and wood siding to create a channel, then the new coil gets bent so it goes back into that groove, once your done you recaulk it- NO SILICONE, silicone and aluminum coil do NOT get along, the silicone will pull away from the coil stock in about 1-2yrs tops rendering it useless. Each piece is bent up so it flashes into the next piece so there is no way, once it's done and caulk fails for water to migrate up into the area's you don't want it to migrate up into. So for the older homes with existing wood frames, and/or new replacement windows, the fastest, easiest, safest method is to replace rotten sections of wood on the frame, then wrap with aluminum coil stock. (only drawback with composites is they separate during the cold months due to shrinkage, just the nature of the beast, but grow back come spring/summer)īut what about the existing wood sill? they don't make a direct replacement composite sill, and it would require ALOT of extra work to cut out the existing wood sill, glue/stack composite materials to form a new composite sill and then can be done, but the typical DIY guy doesn't have the tools, much less the knowledge to pull this feat off and make it look great, much less be water tight which is the big deal here since water infiltration will rot out the surrounding sheeting/walls. Many older homes have replacement windows installed already, sure you could rip off the brickmold and replace with composite/pvc replacement brickmold. There's nothing wrong with composites, but they aren't the best/easiest choice in all circumstances.
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