Re: SB: Window/Door bucks

[hollen@woodsprite.com]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, clarke wrote:

> I was wondering how much larger a door and window buck needs to be than
> the respective door/window. Ie for a 2.5x5ft window, and lets say a
> standard 3ft door? Can anyone give me ideas.
> Elizabeth

Part of it will depend on how square/level you can get it.  In theory, if
your buck is perfectly square and level, you can just slide in the window
and fasten it, with no more clearance than the thickness of a sheet of
paper to allow for it to not bind.  However, if it is not perfectly square
and level, then you need enough "wiggle room" to be able to insert shims,
both on the sides and top and bottom.  In practice with a fairly square
and level buck, maybe about 1/2" horizontal and vertical.  But if you are
more than 1/2" out in any direction total, then you do not have enough
wiggle room to compensate with.

Don't take my word for it as gospel, though, as I have not set very many
windows (only three in my workshop) and they were all fairly square and
level and we did not have much to compensate for.  Also, it was in a post
and beam and bucks were very well attached to the structural posts to
begin with, so they did not shift much.  If you are inserting bucks in a
loadbearing bale wall, the wall could move around quite a bit, causing the
buck to go out of level and square, making more wiggle room necessary than
when you built the buck.

dion
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