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Enhancing Your Home with a Glass Block Bathroom Window Installation
Glass block has been useful in creating an art deco atmosphere in homes and businesses for more that fifty year, however in the past two decades it has gained in popularity with many individuals, families and companies. Glass block can enhance any area while being strong, insulating, and secure as well as being a beautiful fire resistant material to use in any room and especially in the bathroom. Glass blocks allow the light to enter a room while also adding privacy. They come in many different sizes, shapes, colors and they can be custom made to fit your personal needs.
For instance, some manufactures of glass blocks can pre-make a six square foot window unit for you that make installation easy on your own; they insert into a frame that makes glass block bathroom window installation; so much easier for the everyday person to install. You will also find that you can install glass blocks a piece at a time when you use horizontal or vertical strips for spacing while using a clear caulking of silicone. On the other hand, there are glass block windows that are permanently sealed and do not open. So, you can choose from either when doing your own glass block bathroom window installation.
To begin, you should measure the area you plan to install your block window twice and then make a drawing of how it should look when completed. You should measure from side to side, beginning at the narrowest point and then down to where you think the window will be end after you remove the frame. Taking photographs of the area where you will be installing the windows will also be helpful to you when making your order of glass blocks or a glass block assembly insert. The finished product will either be single glass blocks that you plan to set yourself, or a large slab of glass blocks, depending on the design you prefer and the work you plan to do.
You will have to remove the old frame to proceed. After you remove the frame, you will need to clean up any dust or debris from the area. Once you have this taken care of, you will use shims on the bottom of the frame to extend it by half an inch. Place these shims approximately every three inches. You might want to keep a spray bottle of water handy to keep the masonry jambs damp while working. Take your trowel, put some waterproof cement mortar in the sill, and gently slide the window onto the shims, while placing two more shims between the jamb and the top of the window. They should be snug. Then check to see if the window is level and square, the window should be parallel to both the inside and outside walls. Fill in the bottom gaps with more mortar and let dry. However, if you have any smearing of mortar on the window itself, you should wipe them clean with a damp sponge. After two or three hours remove your shims and fill in their holes with the cement mortar. After 24 hours, the mortar is dry, wait until then to fill the top gap with caulking. If you have smears from caulking, you can use lacquer thinner to remove it from your glass blocks.
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