Description
uPVC casement windows serve several advantages over the traditional wooden and aluminum windows. Some of these advantages are these windows are maintenance-free, easy to install, economical, good looking, available in various designs and finishes, fire-resistant, weather-resistant, offers excellent water tightness and noise-proof.
Advantage
- Offer a wide-open view
- Quite difficult to break into, offering higher safety
- Highly energy efficient
- Available in various designs and colors
Installing
- Window/Door joining walls should be plastered from inside as well as outside. The cavity in which the new window shall be installed shall be free from any obstruction. The sill should be well plastered.
- Each window should be adequately and properly shimmed to the plumb level.
- The cavity shall be measured at three points both in width and height as under, the variation between the maximum and minimum size in case of width and also in height should not exceed 12 mm.
- The width of the sill be more than the window frame width.
- Clear guidelines to be given whether window to be internally flushed or externally flushed or what space to be left whether outside or inside if the sill level is more.
- The installation shall commence only after one coat of paint, it should also be ensured that there is no plaster of Paris work done on the joining face of the window to the wall.
- In case the grills are to be installed for slider windows and inward opening window it should be installed before the installation of the window. In case of outward opening window, it should be installed after the installation of the window.