Timeline for Why are these cracks around all of our sash windows?
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| Mar 16, 2015 at 15:07 | answer | added | RedGrittyBrick | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 23:17 | comment | added | Jack | May I clarify the construction process on this aspect of home building. Cabinet shops do make custom windows. (these look like custom units) Many windows that are stock sizes are built by specialty shops, like Marvin, Jeld-Wen, Hurd, Andersen and the like. Windows are always installed by carpenters, be it framers, or finish carpenters. Never the less carpenters. Gaps in the trim as it shown here happen when a carpenter just pulls the trigger on a nail gun and doesn't care if it stays over the long haul. Glue used by an experienced carpenter can prevent issues like this before they happen. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 23:11 | comment | added | Aloysius Defenestrate | @tylerdurden, no prob... none of us were born with this information... I learn something new every day. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 23:08 | comment | added | Tyler Durden | @AloysiusDefenestrate ...and that is why I am not a cabinet maker | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 22:11 | comment | added | Aloysius Defenestrate | @tylerdurden, your quote, "... because wood changes size as it absorbs moisture. It always gets longer or shorter, not wider, ie it grows or shrinks in the direction of the grain" is exactly backwards. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 17:15 | comment | added | Tyler Durden | The crack is there because wood changes size as it absorbs moisture. It always gets longer or shorter, not wider, ie it grows or shrinks in the direction of the grain. The guy who built the window did not understand how to put the wood together in the header so that the sill would not pull apart when the wood took on moisture. This is why cabinet makers charge $100 an hour and carpenters charge $25 an hour. Your window was built by a carpenter. If it had been built by a cabinet maker, no seam would have appeared. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 16:41 | answer | added | Jack | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 15:59 | history | asked | Dylan C | CC BY-SA 3.0 |