Adding A Window To A Stucco House

Preserving a stucco finish greatly depends on the kind of windows you already have installed.

Adding a window to a stucco house.

This will hide the joint between your windows and the walls of your house. Drive through a neighborhood that has a lot of older stucco homes and you ll probably notice some obvious patch jobs where windows have been replaced. Set the window in the opening bedding the flanges in sealant. In order to remove these windows properly it is often necessary to break the stucco off a couple of inches in order to expose the fasteners.

Adding a window to an existing structure can be a difficult task if the necessary preparation is not taken. Older aluminum windows usually have a nailing fin that is hidden underneath the stucco. With the right tools and materials there shouldn t be any. The stucco contractor can then tuck his stucco wrap under these splines as well as the spline at the base of the window.

I had a couple extra windows around and decided to install them in my garage. Hang window boxes with a seamless look. Installing vinyl windows in an existing stucco building requires removing a strip of stucco from around the window opening. Installing some new exterior window trim is a great way to finish any property.

This article will focus on adding a window to a structure with a vinyl siding exterior. If you have stucco walls then installing trim might seem difficult. Staple 18 inch wide strips of housewrap to the 3 1 2 inch faces of the jack studs and fold the excess over the sheathing to act as splines. I can tell you when i did this in my house two 30x36 casement opening windows plus a 30 highx60 inch wide eyebrow window in a reading loft the cost difference was only about 20 more expensive per square foot for the curved eyebrow configuration than rectangular window non opening of course.

Painting the garage to match the rest of the house and adding lighting in a similar style to that used on the main entrance can make a big difference. Trim is also available in a variety of different finishes. I opened the wall from the inside. As with any home improvement.

The difficulty of matching the color and exact texture of stucco makes.