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    • CommentAuthorDavid Lam
    • CommentTimeOct 8th 2022 edited
     
    Can anybody help please. I have some new windows being installed into my house in 4 days, and I have not spent enough time researching things.
    I would like to outset the windows from the masonry to allow future EWI to meet it and reduce the cold bridge.
    I plan to have 80mm insulation (probably mineral wool, but maybe EPS).
    I have installed some brackets to allow this, as per the window installer's request.
    The window installer has asked for a 25mm recess, so the EWI would sit 25mm out from the window.

    Is this enough? I've already had feedback from MarkyP (thanks Mark!) who has said 50mm would be better to allow beading for the EWI. Do others agree?
    Are there any other comments?
    I'll try to add a drawing and photo to show you what is going on.

    Thank you so much in advance. Any comments welcome.

    David
    • CommentAuthorDavid Lam
    • CommentTimeOct 8th 2022
     
    Drawing done in Bluebeam (ie. sketchy!)
    • CommentAuthorDavid Lam
    • CommentTimeOct 8th 2022
     
    Photo of existing window (to be removed) with brackets installed ready to have new window installed on.
    Note - I need to put some more brackets in!
    The window will sit partially on the brackets, partially in the masonry frame.
      38WR window brackets.jpg
    • CommentAuthorwookey
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2022
     
    I hope those are stainless brackets (as opposed to galv steel) to minimise the bridging. Compacfoam would have a been a more thermally efficient way to provide a mount: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sSKsKB9doc
    Green Building Store can send you some next day delivery :-) The main catch is that it's fairly expensive.

    You don't say what the surface will be. Presumably you'll be rendering over the insulation, hence the query about space for the beading? I take it you don't have some beading to measure and check how much space is needed? The inner bead needs 15-20mm and the corner bead another 20mm. I guess you can overlap those so 25mm would work, but 40+ will be more comfortable.

    I'd put some 25mm pieces of insulation over the frame so most of it is covered.

    You don't want to push the window too far back into the brickwork, so maybe more than 80mm insulation would be a good idea? Why not 100 or 150? Decent U-value, plenty of reveal depth, metal brackets not bridging insulation.

    Have you worked out the other details? i.e. got cills with the right render-ends and maybe some foam jointing tape? And something to waterproof the bottom of the window (under the cill) convincingly? And worked out how the window airtightness is working? I used illbruck airtightness foam and tescon tape. (and fancy ampacoll tape under the cill - that may well be overkill if not using woodfibre).
    • CommentAuthorDavid Lam
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2022
     
    Hi Wookey

    These are good comments thanks.
    I need to do more research about the insulation but I have time for that.

    I don't know much about types of cills. The ones that come with the windows can be slotted in. So I'm hoping I can swap them over if the wrong ones arrive (at an expense obvs). Are you able to elaborate what you mean about the right render ends please?

    Thank you again
    D
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