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Use a spacer to mark for adequate flashing space. If needed mark the siding for cutting, remove the window, and cut the siding. How to Install a Bay Window. Get the reading nook you've always wanted with a picture-perfect bay window. After a bit of labor, you'll love the results! May 30, Save Pin FB More. Mini Farmhouse Makeovers.

Comments Add Comment. How difficult was this project? Very easy. Kind of easy. Kind of hard. Very hard. Font Size Print Pin Save. The most common style is the angled bay window, which protrudes from the house and slants back toward the wall at a or degree angle. A box bay is square-the side sash come straight off the house at 90 degrees. A box bay with a glass roof is known as a garden bay or greenhouse window. All major window manufacturers offer angled bay windows in both and degree configurations; a few make degree bays.

Most also offer degree box bays. Each bay type comes in hundreds of standard and custom sizes to fit any opening. Standard sizes typically range in width from 3 feet 6 inches to 10 feet 6 inches, and in height from 3 feet to 6 feet 6 in. Most windows are made of wood or vinyl.

Exterior finish options include primed wood, extruded vinyl and wood clad in low-maintenance aluminum or vinyl. Primed-wood windows are economical, but they must be painted and periodically scraped and repainted to prevent rot.

Vinyl windows are also affordable and maintenance-free, but their frames include vinyl on interior surfaces — a look not everyone likes.

Clad windows usually cost more, but offer a low-maintenance vinyl or aluminum exterior and a handsome all-wood interior. Most bays come with insulated glazing-two panes separated by an air space.

If you want higher energy efficiency, order the window with argon gas between the panes, or opt for low-e glazing that admits solar heat in winter and reflects it in summer. Homes in cold-weather climates might benefit from triple glazing three panes, two air spaces , which provides 15 to 25 percent higher energy efficiency than standard insulated glazing. What you'll pay. A custom-made unit will cost at least 15 to 20 percent more and take four to six weeks for delivery, compared with less than a week for most standard-size bays.

That's why it's important to shop around for the window that best suits your home, budget, and time schedule. Whichever bay window you're considering, review the following five questions before you buy.

What size window? It's easier and cheaper to put in a bay the same size or smaller than the old window. However, a larger window will bring more light into the room and create a greater visual impact inside and out. What type of sash? There's no set rule regarding which style sash — either casement or double-hung — a bay should have.

Often, the bay sash match those on the other windows on the home, but they don't have to. Pick the style you like best. Taller, narrower bays usually look better with casement sash. In these the roof and skirt are built on the ground and then installed.

Expect to spend a day or two installing and insulating the window. Before you begin, brush up on your carpentry skills, cut the opening, and check for square. You will also need one or two strong helpers. Bay Window Design Ideas. Attach the cable brackets. Make sure the brackets are roughly in line with the cable attachment points on the window.

Screws should be driven deep into framing members, not just the siding. While checking for level adjust the mounting hardware as needed. Raise the outside of the unit slightly so it is higher than level to allow for settling. Fill the framing with insulation. Cut a piece of fiberglass insulation to fit on top of the window, then cut a slightly smaller piece to rest on top of the first piece.

Fill the rest of the cavity with loose fiberglass. Add the sheathing pieces cut earlier, fastening them with 8d cement-coated sinker nails or 2-inch screws. Finish it by adding flashing and drip edge, then roofing felt and shingles. Prefab the skirt as well. The complexity of the joints makes it much easier to build the skirt on a work surface rather than on the window itself.

Attach the plywood bottom.