How to Install and Plant Window Boxes | This Old House
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
- This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows how to properly mount window boxes, and This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares expert planting tips. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for Installing and Plant Window Boxes:
- cellular PVC window box
- siliconized caulk
- 5/16-inch-diamter x 4 inch-long galvanized lag screws and washers
- PVC cement
- assorted annuals and perennials
- landscape fabric
- washed stone
- potting soil
- liquid fertilizer
Tools for Installing and Plant Window Boxes
- drill/driver
- zip tool
- right-angle drill
- caulk gun
- ratchet wrench
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I remember finding this show painfully boring as a kid, but now it is essential knowledge. Didn't know about needing to caulk the drill holes, thank you!
That was a flawless transition from light Bostonian accent heavy Bostonian accent
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Pure genius!!! looking for ways to mount my boxes and almost spent 80 on brackets but now I can just make them out of wood!!! Thanks!!!
These guys just took it to a new level!! I simply bought the plastic planter boxes with vigor brackets....
Thanks Tom, always appreciate the lessons!
Helpful information, thank you for sharing !!
I've learned every home repair related skill I know from these 2
They make it look so easy
It's interesting that the lower supports are merely window dressing. My original window box supports were solid wood anchored into the stucco & wood backing material, but after they rotted out I had to replace them with brackets & dentil block covers. They look great, but again, the brackets provide 100% of the support.
So if you have insulation board and house wrap you’re pretty much breaking the barrier. But if you decide to get rid of them you now have damaged siding that may no longer be available or may be faded if you were to repair. Is there another way to install them without damaging the siding?
Didn't know it would be that complicated.
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I never thought doing something like this involved so much work and tools
This is how to do it properly. Many contractors will hang things quick & fast with no intention of longevity.
I love the energy of green shirt guy, 😂
FYI Sweet potato vine does best in partial shade. I know because I plant them all the time.
Does anyone have a link to these window boxes and the self watering thing?
Would this be the same process for a stucco house?
That reservoir is a great touch, gonna have to build one of those. Is the rope nylon or what?
Looking at another video about self watering window boxes, it's polyester ua-cam.com/video/KxknGc0bP10/v-deo.html
Cotton clothes line
Link for that planter box?
Can the trick with the zip tool be used on aluminum siding as well as vinyl siding ?
I'd like to know that as well.
They make stud finders
Wouldn't it have been easier to use a stud finder than to pull up the siding and go thru' all the problem of putting it back properly?
No
Nope, trying to use a stud finder on vinyl siding is pretty much impossible because of an air space between the siding and sheathing. This was the correct way.
Couldn’t you use a stud finder on the inside to find a stud for reference? This would eliminate peeling off the siding.
Could be a shearwall, which could throw off the stud finder. Probing with a drill isnt a terrible idea since its covered with siding.
I usually use strong magnets to find studs as they are often nailed in with steel nails.
Yes, but it wouldn't be any faster.
When he says "whick out into the soil" what type of rope does he have there. 4:26 exactly into this clip.
Wick - cotton
How about using a studfinder?
That's what I was going to say.
So complicated
Why not find the studs from inside the house and then measure where they are relative to the window?
You can do it both ways, both require about the same amount of time.
Just do what Tom said. It’s not rocket science and a zip tool’s line $5
How do you attach plant windows bows to a bricks 🧱 🏡
You would need a masonry bit to drill the holes. There are threaded inserts you tap in.
Woodglut has a very large project base.
The vinyl siding installer should have nailed the siding into the spot where there is a framing stud. Apparently the installer on this house did not...
yaa i grew up with family members with "green thumbs" at best they were herbicidest. tho it u fill them with plastic flowers everyone wins..
Some houses are fully sheathed in plywood or osb, therefore, finding a stud when installing vinyl is unnecessary.
I made it with Woodglut plans!
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How to do this at the second floor window without hiring people?
The client has no idea what they are talking about
I have wanted a window box for such a long time now. My house has vinyl siding and I am old and scared to try and install one myself. I have no one who can do it for me. My husband is disabled so I guess I will never have one.
Ask a handy neighbor. If I was in your area would help you
Those are the loneliest looking window boxes, that guy had bad flower choices
You gotta lova American houses. Sticks of wood covered in multiple layers of plastic.
We have lots of both sticks of wood and plastic. Most of the brick plants are being shut down due to EPA regulations and being bought out by Australian companies and China.
Wood is superior for individual family homes. Concrete or clay block framing is overkill, wasteful, and worse for the environment than wood. We are rich in wood. Europe/Asia isn't, and its expensive, that's why you use block.
Wood is better for the environment because it stores carbon, and is sustainable.
@Narrow Path That's great but as styles change, houses change. No house EVER is meant to last a 1000 years. The only thing left would be the brick. Pretty worthless.
congratz, u just installed what will eventually end up as weeds in-front of your windows.
Just because you're not a Green Thumb, doesn't mean others don't enjoy their window boxes.
It's called maintenance. Some people may never figure that out.
Homie is reacting like Tommy is speaking an alien language 😂