John Webb finishes up his walkthrough of the Fair Oaks Home Addition and Remodel project in Eugene. Due to previous construction and code standards versus what we have today, hanging new windows and providing adequate privacy, required thoughtful design.
Up to Code – Remodel Design
Did you ever see what we did with all these windows? I ended up having to change the windows without having to reframe everything. And because non of them egress to today’s standards. You couldn’t, a person can barely get out some of them. They were single hung and so the openings were very small. And to bring it into the new code stature and the egress: I did these because I can keep the same opening and you have that type of an opening to egress.
So these are a tilt & turn window, which is very common in Europe. But these are made here in the Northwest, a company. And other thing is really nice about them with storms and everything else. You can still get it open for ventilation and I when it’s storming and raining, even if the water hits it, it’s all made to run down and right out. So you can still have ventilation in a rainstorm.
Anyway, that was my trade out with all this. I did run into something that was a I didn’t count on right away. Is two by six construction versus two by eight. Putting the blinds on that roll down. I’d have to trim out a certain way so that it misses the handle and is up high enough so that it works well.
You know, you know, a lot of American windows, the standard double hungs a single hungs. They would have put in this area. And we don’t have the space. So two by six construction, it’s easy to mount the new blinds on. But the two the two by four construction, if I don’t build out a little bit, if it’s the handle and if you have blackout blinds, it would just be sunlight coming in around the outside. Just a little change.
Written by Todd Zimmerman
Producer of the John Webbccast