Browse Forums Windows & Doors Re: Fixing windows to house frame - what's the standard? 8Nov 03, 2011 5:09 pm baronx ed @ ecoclassic Hi Not much is mandatory in building until someone is hurt or it fails. The standard work practice is to pack windows, for strength and alignment. Your window supplier will specify packers, and I doubt he will guarantee his product unless his procedure is followed. Check your suppliers website, give him a call... The greatest damage in tropical cyclone Yasi in Queensland was caused by poor window installation which caused the whole window to fall out. Ed Yes, I read the report and it's appalling to see how the whole window frames fell with the glass still intact. Hopefully PD will install the windows as recommended by the supplier, from memory it’s “southern star windows” .. I’ll give them a call to double-check. I discussed this with the building inspector we’re using and he suggested that the window reveals haven’t been properly fixed yet and will probably be nailed in properly when the architraves are installed. This gives the builder room to move the window reveal if required. Hi The architraves are not there to hold the window in place, that's what the nails through the jamb reveals into the timber house frame are for, and that is done when the window is first installed - prior to bricking and before plaster. Besides, you don't want the windows moved after installation as it will mean the sashes and door panels won't be true, and are likely to bind. You need your windows firmly nailed home through the reveals into the timber house frame - they have not done that properly, and when they do, make sure the sashes and doors all operate. You cannot rely on nails through the architrave to hold a window. And there is no need to move the window reveal after installation but sometimes the brickies lever windows to suit brickwork - and they should not do that for the same reason as above, they can make the sashes and door panels bind. Ed "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when you’re happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 This is 100% true. You can not hang anything on steel frames. very frustrating 8 8014 I'll look into different shower heads and ask the plumber about some engineering and see what he says. Thanks 2 9563 Plumbers 'can be' plumbers, made all the worse by self certification which the building surveyor invariably accepts as proof of compliance! The good thing is that you know know. 3 4859 |