Fitting New Windows in a Crooked Old House

摘要

Afew years ago, I began an energy-focused remodel of my house in Saugerties, N.Y. This included replacing all the windows with new energy-efficient, fiberglass-framed flanged units from Inline Fiberglass; wrapping the house with two layers of 2-in. rigid polyisocyanurate insulation; and then residing using a rainscreen configuration. The cold, drafty house dated from the 1840s, and the thickness of its racked and sagging walls varied by inches. The old windows were not uniform in size, construction, or installation details, and their rough openings were apparently framed without use of squares, levels, or rulers. Windows that once may have lined up horizontally were now askew and misaligned.