Window Replacement Checklist

If I ever have to do this again, I want this list so I don’t have to go to the lumber yard so many times in a row.

1. Window. One that will fit in the hole you need to fill.
2. Studs. Measure them out! For filling a doorway you need two times the height of the doorway, plus two times the height from the top of the window to the where you’re going to end up ripping out the threshold, plus three times the width of the window.
3. Shims. Don’t leave them in the wrong car. Make sure to actually get to the work site. Have enough so that it’s ok to split a few.
4. Particle board big enough to fill doorway.
5. Drill to drill the holes in the corners of where you have to cut the window shape out of the particle board with a bit big enough for the blade of a jig saw to go through.
6. Jig saw for cutting out the window. Yeah, don’t try to do it without drilling the holes. Trust me on this.
7. House wrap. (I used tar paper. Hope I’m not messing up that way)
8. Staple gun for attaching the house wrap. Preferably the electronic kind because that stuff is hard to staple.
9. Exterior boards to match the rest of the house.
10. Paint to match the house.
11. Calk
12. A calking gun because it’s a royal pain getting the calk out of the tube without one.
13. Nails. Lots and lots of nails. Not just finishing nails. And don’t assume K-mart will have the right ones. Their selection is awful, even if they are still open after the hardware store has closed.

And this is only half the list! Sheesh.

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