Self-installation: plastic windows in a wooden house

For a long time, plastic windows, installed in a wooden house, were considered a curiosity. The fault was the high price of double-glazed windows, and a small assortment of solutions. In addition, it was widely believed that the window frames in the wooden house should not be made of PVC. However, over time, everything changed. Nowadays in a log house such an installation is not surprising. Plastic windows in the wooden house became ordinary.

What is the difference between this installation of insulating glass units? Those for whom this issue is relevant, it is worth familiarizing with it in more detail.

Features of wooden buildings

In the event that you decide to independently install the PVC insulated glass units, you need to know how the installation is made. Plastic windows in a wooden house can start breaking right away, if you do not take into account the shrinkage of the bar. Especially this applies to fresh log houses. Wood in them with the passage of time dries up and settles. This is an important point that must be taken into account before the installation is performed. Plastic windows in the wooden house, if properly positioned in the opening, will not require expensive repairs.

Preparatory work

Before installing PVC insulated glass units, the window opening should be prepared. For this purpose, a casing is made. It is used for the reliability of fastening the window and its insulation from the log. Only in this case the double-glazed window will not suffer from shrinkage of the logs. Casing (crescent) will give confidence in the reliability of installation. Only in this case, even a few months after the installation has been completed , the plastic windows in the wooden house will not begin to creak and will open easily.

The casing design assumes the creation of a special crest along the butt end of the logs located in the opening of the window. On it put on a carriage with a groove. Logs, on the ends of which there is a crest, will not slide along the installed window frame, but inside the carriage. With this installation technology, the curvature of the double-glazed windows is eliminated due to the draft of the bar.

Installation work

Plastic windows in the log house must be proportionate to the slanting. Certain stocks in height (5 cm), as well as in width (2 cm) should have the opening itself. This is necessary to shrink and froze the window. To install the window sill , leave 4 cm. Only in this case it is possible to mount the windows. Installation is carried out using pre-purchased special fasteners. They are bolted to the frame from the butt. For convenience of installation the sash with double-glazed windows is previously removed.

Pay special attention to the correct installation

Plastic windows in the timber house should be mounted with the leveling of all surfaces. If this is neglected, the flaps can be arbitrarily closed or opened. Do not forget about the zapenivanii. In order for this procedure not to knock down already measured surfaces, the frame should be fixed. To do this, you can put an ordinary stick under it (then you must not forget to get it). The frame, whose surfaces are installed strictly horizontally and vertically, is fixed using self-tapping screws in the casing.

At the final stage, the fixing stick is removed, the sashes are hung, the inserted window is perforated along the perimeter.