3D StormWin
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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79F and sunny out there this morning. I bubbled Natalie while we were out there, for about 15 minutes... and I'll do it again on Friday morning, if we don't get any rain.
After feeding everybody inside, I went out on the porch and gave the underside of HD2.0 a coat of paint...
So now the whole thing's got three coats of preservative... it's been patched with epoxy... and it has one full coat of paint.
I'm gonna give the top side a second coat, just to give it extra protection against the rain and sun, so that will be tomorrow.
I did 3D model my latest idea for the storm windows last night... after measuring the window wells by street light, to get their true dimensions.
And the boards and dowels below are also their true dimensions, relative to one another, so this gives a very clear picture of what the real thing will look like...
This is the back side of a storm... what you'd see from inside the house. Of course the sash windows would be in front of this, and the blinds in front of them.
The four sides of the frame are 1X3 boards, and the cross bars are 1X2 boards.
In this design I'm using half-inch square dowel... that's trim which is half an inch wide by half an inch deep... and that dowel has been affixed three-quarters of an inch away from the inside edges of the main frame.
They do make transparent construction glue, so here, the plexiglass is glued inside that bezel created by the dowels, and also glued to the cross bars.
And everything on this side is natural wood, because I don't want to be gluing onto paint. But with transparent glue, and glass that in real life is also transparent, this should look pretty good from inside the livingroom looking out.
There would also be a bead of window glazing (like caulk) going around the edges of the plexiglass, where it meets the bezel.
And this is what it would look like from the outside, painted Boat House Blue.
I was very happy to see how legitimately, window-like this will actually be!
There will be window glazing around the insides of the four lights, here on the outside, which should really solidify that plexiglass in place.
But it will also make this look for all the world like it's four independent panes of glass... sitting behind the frame.
So, I think, to any casual passer by, these storms will look perfectly legit, rather than looking fake and klunky.
The four sides of the frame are just gonna be butted together and fastened with a single screw going in on the sides at each of the four corners.
The vertical cross peice will go from top to bottom, and the horizontal ones will connect to it with wooden pegs and wood glue.
And then the four ends of the cross will be connected to the frame by screws coming in from the sides.
The dowels will be nailed onto the back face of the frame with small brads, and maybe a little wood glue to help hold them down.
And then, like I said, the plexiglass will be glued on with transparent construction glue and glaze around the edges.
This should allow the whole frame to seat easily into the window well, as the edge thickness will only be 3/4 of an inch.
And the four turn buttons should keep it from falling out... I could also run a bead of caulk around the edges for extra draft proofing and to hold it in place.
This is a design very much inspired by modern prefab furniture, where it just uses the fewest amount of pieces, and the least amount of hardware possible... connecting it all in the most basic way possible... so that it looks like the thing it's supposed to be.
Only from the inside, can you tell it's just one sheet of plexiglass glued to the wood, with no fasteners at all.
But I think most people won't even notice that.
But as long as I repaint these, every few years, they could last for decades.
And they should do a fine job of insulating against winter cold and summer heat, because they will trap a layer of air between themselves and the sash windows... which are so painted shut no air can leak through.
But most of all, I love that it's gonna recreate the look of the original storms from 1875, with the cross bars.
Lastly, now that I've come up with this design, and if this works... I can do this same thing for the rear facing storms of Dad's room & the kitchen... and even the side storms for the back room.
That will only leave the upstairs windows to deal with... but those I do believe I will just replace with whole new windows, one day.
Okay!.. some stuff from Amazon was delivered. So I unpacked that, and then took the garbage bins out to the curb.
This is the new handle for HD2.0
And a close up!.. it'll match the hinges nicely!
So... not a bad start to my Tuesday!
Well, I did a little research on my phone tonight and found that I can use what's called a, dowel jig, to get my screw holes, for the storms, perfectly straight and centered in the edges of the boards.
I can also use it for the wood peg holes that will hold the cross beams together.
boards like these split very easily if you don't drill pilot holes, but I'm also gonna drive the screws with an ordinary hand screwdriver.
But if the measurements are good, then with the dowel jig, I should be able to get the frames and their crossbars connected nearly perfectly.
With a little sanding, a little wood putty, and a coat of paint... the fronts should look seamless... with no signs of joinings or hardware of any kind.
As you can tell, I'm really stoked now, about the storm project.
So, if it is 90s this weekend, I'm gonna run straight to Home Depot, pick up all the materials, and just get started on it, down in the basement.
last night and tonight it got down into the low 60sF... meaning I'm switching the plant over to heating at night, and then back to cooling during the day.
So... it's not like it HAD to be 90 for all three days of Memorial Day weekend!
The cosmos is just doing this to fuck my hatch door project.
But, now I've got a back up project to work on instead, so... fuck you cosmos!
But... it's only Tuesday night, so we'll see how the week plays out.
I notice reading back in this thing that typically, my Mondays and Tuesdays are full of left over mementum from the weekend.
Then, my Wednedsays and Thurdsays get real dull, cuz I've been sucked in by the daily grind of the joe job.
Then I get jazzed again on Friday.
So... here comes the dull part.
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