justinswartsel
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Hi,
Firstly let me say that I am very new to house repair and rennovation, but have been "cutting my teeth" on a few projects at my house. I own a concrete-block home and all the windows have ceramic sills on the interior. In our master we're hoping to replace this tile with a wood stool and trim around the window.
It appears that the window doesn't have any wood framing underneath it, only concrete block that the tiles are mortared to. What will I need to do to install a wooden stool in their place? The window itself sits ON TOP of the tile. It is a metal horizontal-sliding window roughly 105 inches wide by 25 inches tall. The interior sill measures 3 1/4" from the window to the wall edge.
One suggestion was to put a pressure treated 1x4 on the concrete and install the stool on top of it. Any other ideas or suggestions?
Thanks!
Justin
Firstly let me say that I am very new to house repair and rennovation, but have been "cutting my teeth" on a few projects at my house. I own a concrete-block home and all the windows have ceramic sills on the interior. In our master we're hoping to replace this tile with a wood stool and trim around the window.
It appears that the window doesn't have any wood framing underneath it, only concrete block that the tiles are mortared to. What will I need to do to install a wooden stool in their place? The window itself sits ON TOP of the tile. It is a metal horizontal-sliding window roughly 105 inches wide by 25 inches tall. The interior sill measures 3 1/4" from the window to the wall edge.
One suggestion was to put a pressure treated 1x4 on the concrete and install the stool on top of it. Any other ideas or suggestions?
Thanks!
Justin