Quatrefoil Window... IN!!

Don't have much time, so I will try to ramble much less than normal...

Long story short, our first meeting with the stucco/stone/cantera guys got cancelled this morning because some lunatic ran a red light and almost killed him and his crew... They were fine, but shaken up a bit.  We are happy to arrange that for a later date.

Ok, so I was tired of looking at the quatrefoil window in my garage, so I decided to install it today while we were waiting around doing other stuff.  I have no idea why I was waiting, and it's not  urgent, but I thought the time available in my day about matched the job.  For once I was right...

The window was cut from a material called AZEK, which is a cellular PVC material that is pretty much a soft workable plastic.  It was powder coated in Bahama Brown, and then fitted with a double pane tempered glass.

The opening is 11 inches deep, but the window is only 4 9/16" deep from the flange to the back frame of the window.  The idea here is to deep recess the window so that the stucco guys can form a 3 dimensional carved stucco return back to the window.  This I think will make a great feature on the front of the house.  It's really a cool shape. 

Here we go...  First, I added blocking all around the window accounting for the thickness of the plywood surrounds, so that the window would project into the room 1/2 inch, which is the thickness of the concrete backer board.  This will allow them to tile right up and around the window, and even inside the thing if we want.  This thing was a complete pain in the ....  to flash, so I won't even get into those details, but 3 steps gradually smaller, and the window is getting rain on the outside and a shower on the inside. 

I cut out some scrap 3/4 plywood, which was thicker than I needed, but free.  Scribed the window, and then cut out the quatrefoil.  Then I did this again.  Here is a test fit.

Now, I used window wrap to "face" the plywood on the exterior.  This stuff makes a mess out of a knife, it's like cutting partially dried glue.

Test fit the window...then walk away so you can take a picture, then realize you are really stupid for leaving the window up there attached to nothing... geez.

Caulk the window flange, caulk the plywood to the opening... heck, just caulk everything.  I used 2 entire tubes.  Flash the crap out of everything, and then caulk and flash some more.  Step back and take another picture.

From this picture you can see how deep the window is recessed.  I think it's 8 inches from the face of the ICF back to the window.

Cool shape and shadows on the inside. 

Finished shot on the inside. Only thing I am unhappy about is that the finished window only sits back 3/8 of an inch rather than 1/2 inch on the inside. I guess that will make a little crack that we can just caulk.

Now, for some nastiness...  Since I had the wheelbarrow out there (and a flat shovel), figured I would quickly scoop out the grime that had accumulated in the shower stalls.  They are the low point in the house during ICF and framing, and sawdust, nails, dirt, water, and all kinds of nastiness ends up in there.  I want them to dry out so we can clean them up.  2 entire loads of slop came from just 4 shower stalls.  It reminded me of growing up on a hog farm, where I shoveled this same consistency of material that smelled a lot worse, thousands of tons of it!!  (Ok, I maybe exaggerate a bit there, but it motivated me through college)

Glad to have that out of the house...but where do you put it??  It's watery slop that's full of nails...

One more thing.  I didn't give adequate credit to my lovely bride for shoveling out the remains of the concrete washout and hauling all that off.  They know her by name now at the dump.  Our board pile is starting to look realistic again...

Have a great week....  Aloha  ;-)