Alan Turner
09-05-2005, 7:38 AM
In the new shop building, which was a bakery, mattress factory, plastic molding shop, and perhpas many other things in its past, there are a ton of windows, many quite large double wide, all double hung, and we need to build storm windows which will install from the inside as this building gets quite cold in the winter. And, we need to do it inexpensively. So, I would like a bit of help from my friends here at SMC.
The window frames and sash are all steel and not very wide. When the plastic company closed down, they had a bunch of flat stock inventory. We had them leave all of the clear plastic, which is perhaps 1/8" thick, much of it corrugated (sort of), and we would like to use this for the lights as the price is zero. I was thinking I would like to build wood frames for this plastic, which I can certainly do, but but the question of installation and deinstallation, year to year, is an issue. We can install using chiel point pan heads and drill them right into the perimeter frames, but reinstalling them the following winter would be difficult. The window frames are set back from the inside face of the building, all of which is of brick construction, and quite tight. Because of the size of these storms, they will lack very much structural integrity. Think floppy.
We were thinkiing of cutting a groove, perhpas 3/8 wide by 1/4 deep, and pressing in a round piece of compressible foam, which I am told is about 3 cents a foot. A bit of a seal.
Or, maybe I am thinking wood too much. Perhaps we could simply cut the sheets of plastic to size, and use a psa mangnetic strip around the perimeter. Is this stuff affordable? Would that work?
Anyone have any ideas that are wonderful, cheap and fast?
Thanks in advance for any guidance.
If anyone cares, I will try to get some measurements of critical features. One of the issues is that the plastic is not large enough to cover any single window, at least as to the large windows, although there are some smaller windows where the sheets are large enough for a single sheet.
I wonder how I will cut this plastic without ruining tools. Bandsaw?
The window frames and sash are all steel and not very wide. When the plastic company closed down, they had a bunch of flat stock inventory. We had them leave all of the clear plastic, which is perhaps 1/8" thick, much of it corrugated (sort of), and we would like to use this for the lights as the price is zero. I was thinking I would like to build wood frames for this plastic, which I can certainly do, but but the question of installation and deinstallation, year to year, is an issue. We can install using chiel point pan heads and drill them right into the perimeter frames, but reinstalling them the following winter would be difficult. The window frames are set back from the inside face of the building, all of which is of brick construction, and quite tight. Because of the size of these storms, they will lack very much structural integrity. Think floppy.
We were thinkiing of cutting a groove, perhpas 3/8 wide by 1/4 deep, and pressing in a round piece of compressible foam, which I am told is about 3 cents a foot. A bit of a seal.
Or, maybe I am thinking wood too much. Perhaps we could simply cut the sheets of plastic to size, and use a psa mangnetic strip around the perimeter. Is this stuff affordable? Would that work?
Anyone have any ideas that are wonderful, cheap and fast?
Thanks in advance for any guidance.
If anyone cares, I will try to get some measurements of critical features. One of the issues is that the plastic is not large enough to cover any single window, at least as to the large windows, although there are some smaller windows where the sheets are large enough for a single sheet.
I wonder how I will cut this plastic without ruining tools. Bandsaw?