Wooden windows with own hands

Despite the popularity of plastic windows, they can not completely replace traditional wooden windows . The tree "breathes", and the products from it are completely safe. Natural color and texture always attract attention, so your house will have an original, not official appearance. Of course, to make wooden windows for the dacha with their own hands you need to try a little. You will need the skills of working with such carpentry tools as a plane, a milling machine, a screwdriver, a circular saw. If everything is in order with this case, then we will immediately start to work.

How to make a wooden window with your own hands?

  1. You can use inexpensive pine for work. The oak, of course, is stronger, but if you are engaged in the production of windows for the first time, it is better to buy inexpensive material. The blanks for our window will have dimensions of 140x40 mm.
  2. On the ventilations of the workpiece will be in the form of bars 40x50 m.
  3. Next, you need to choose a quarter under the glass 10x15 mm. On the side racks it is made from one side, and on the cross-piece, which stands in the middle, the quarter is selected from both sides. It is better to use a circular machine for this.
  4. The quarters are ready, you can measure the blanks to cut them to the desired length.
  5. Wooden windows with their own hands are better done on special carpentry equipment. For example, we carry out this work on a circular machine.
  6. On the crossmember we make a cut at both ends - a width of 40 mm and a depth of 10 mm.
  7. After several operations, accurate samples were obtained, which are necessary for quality assembly.
  8. We make a markup to make a selection in the place of the window.
  9. Hacksaw twice perform propyl.
  10. The manual machine milling the marked part.
  11. We perform drills in the marked holes and grind the workpieces.
  12. The manufacture of wooden windows with their own hands came to the end. We assemble our product with self-tapping screws.
  13. We cut into the length of the workpiece for the window and perform samples on them under the glass.
  14. We will have the pane-groove in the form of a groove.
  15. We glue the blanks, expose them diagonally and collect the window leaf. Do not forget to leave the technological gaps.
  16. We milled a quarter on the window.
  17. We put the window in place and cut the veil.
  18. We put the handles, we cut the window locks and the counter-strips.
  19. The window is ready. It remains to paint it, insert the glass and you can install the product in place.