Either expose this flange and pry out the nails or use a reciprocating saw and pummel the flange.
How to turn a window into a door brick house.
If cutting through vinyl siding place the circular saw blade on backwards to prevent excessive damage.
That though doesn t make it impossible or very hard to do.
If you want lots of light to come in a door can do that better than a window.
If you want to be able to open the house up and let lots of air in a door wins every time.
Adding a window into a brick or stone wall is going to create a lot of extra useable material than can be utilized in making a seamless addition to your brick wall.
Start demolition from the outside in order to check for any electrical wiring or other obstructions.
Doors offer almost everything a window can offer and more.
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Saw the outer wall with the proper saw for siding or brick revealing the inside of the house.
Adding a window into a brick wall granted is easier said than done.
Modern ish windows are hung on your house by nails driven through a flange in the window that sits on the exterior side of the house s sheathing.
Draw lines down the exterior wall directly below the edges of the window to have a guide to cut by.
Back up the bar with a piece of scrap wood to avoid marring the wall.
If i was to do it as a window door installer not a bricklayer i would have to remove the mortar between the bricks on the upper corners of the opening in order to slip a long 4 x 4 angle iron into the mortar joint so that the angle iron would span the entire opening and rest on the bricks on each side.
To have your sliding glass door work properly you have to have openings on the inner and outer wall.
This old house general contractor tom silva shows the proper way to install a new window into an old and oversized doorway opening.
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