Greg Narozniak
03-17-2009, 12:46 PM
Hello all,
Not sure this is the right section of forums for this but I will try. End of last year we had our cedar plank sided house painted. Before the painting crew came on I had a local general contractor come in and replace quite a few damaged planks along with a bunch of window sills that were rotted.
These sills are roughly 1 1/4 thick and angled away from the window. I removed all the screens before anyone started. Well with it being late august by the time all was said and done and I decided to replace all the screen material in the frames (Not a fun job) over the winter. Well I started putting them back in and most of the ones that have sills that he replaced the screens do not fit anymore. It looks like the angle might be off or maybe the material is thicker but they don't fit.
My question is this, it does not make sense to rip out the sills and start over. Can I use a Non Ferrous metal blade on my table saw and if I "clamp" the screen between some plywood strips can I run the aluminium frame through the TS and trim some off the screen frame and make it fit? I am really trying to avoid having to make or order new screens for these windows. I did not fully count but there is probably at least 8 to 10 screens.
Any other Ideas? I will post pics tonight as my wife had the camera with her yesterday and I could not take any.
Thanks in advance as always
Greg
Not sure this is the right section of forums for this but I will try. End of last year we had our cedar plank sided house painted. Before the painting crew came on I had a local general contractor come in and replace quite a few damaged planks along with a bunch of window sills that were rotted.
These sills are roughly 1 1/4 thick and angled away from the window. I removed all the screens before anyone started. Well with it being late august by the time all was said and done and I decided to replace all the screen material in the frames (Not a fun job) over the winter. Well I started putting them back in and most of the ones that have sills that he replaced the screens do not fit anymore. It looks like the angle might be off or maybe the material is thicker but they don't fit.
My question is this, it does not make sense to rip out the sills and start over. Can I use a Non Ferrous metal blade on my table saw and if I "clamp" the screen between some plywood strips can I run the aluminium frame through the TS and trim some off the screen frame and make it fit? I am really trying to avoid having to make or order new screens for these windows. I did not fully count but there is probably at least 8 to 10 screens.
Any other Ideas? I will post pics tonight as my wife had the camera with her yesterday and I could not take any.
Thanks in advance as always
Greg