I've seen a lot of threads on the forum of people building their own doors, but I can't recall ever seeing one of someone building a window.
Long story: when this house was converted previously to a duplex they took out two of the original windows to the house and replaced them with garbage vinyl ones. One was the same size, one was shorter due to the base kitchen cabinets. I've looked every where I can think around town for a replacement of the shorter one but can't find the longer size I need. No clue where they got these. This room is now a bedroom. I went around looking for just old window sashes today at various salvage places and couldn't find any.
My option is to either order bottom of the line Pella windows (or other) for around $230 each, or make my own. The original windows were not counter weighted so the sashes were just made of solid wood (no slots on the side edges) and have 6 lights per sash.
Question: I'd just need to build the 4 sashes roughly 31 1/4" x 32". It doesn't seem like a hard task to do, with the right router bits, but I guess i'd be concerned about warping. Is this something worth trying to tackle?
Long story: when this house was converted previously to a duplex they took out two of the original windows to the house and replaced them with garbage vinyl ones. One was the same size, one was shorter due to the base kitchen cabinets. I've looked every where I can think around town for a replacement of the shorter one but can't find the longer size I need. No clue where they got these. This room is now a bedroom. I went around looking for just old window sashes today at various salvage places and couldn't find any.
My option is to either order bottom of the line Pella windows (or other) for around $230 each, or make my own. The original windows were not counter weighted so the sashes were just made of solid wood (no slots on the side edges) and have 6 lights per sash.
Question: I'd just need to build the 4 sashes roughly 31 1/4" x 32". It doesn't seem like a hard task to do, with the right router bits, but I guess i'd be concerned about warping. Is this something worth trying to tackle?