Brick wall sill's

[Dennis Bourey]

Hi Guy's a easy one. What do you use and how to install the upper and lower recessed sill's ? Wood wall's just cut and install the window ? but the brick scratch build is another thing. Thanks again Dennis.

[restocarp]

Generally I just glue a piece of strip wood above and/or below the opening and paint it the stone/foundation grey/gray color.

Matt

[fbernard65]

Exactly.

Frank

[Dennis Bourey]

Thanks Matt and Frank.......Dennis

[deemery]

I usually use strip styrene, but that's because I build my brick buildings from styrene sheet.  One thing I've done on occasion is cut away the styrene sheet on the top, exposing the (styrene) subwall, which I then paint a dark grey to represent iron/steel.  For the bottom sills, I often use a strip of brick cut lengthwise, so it's a row of 1/2 height bricks.  That's a common bottom sill treatment on brick structures.

dave

[Dennis Bourey]

Thank you Dave, Do you cut enough for the sill to sit under the window or do you just glue it to the outside of the opening?

[deemery]

Thank you Dave, Do you cut enough for the sill to sit under the window or do you just glue it to the outside of the opening?

I just glue it to the outside.  No one has noticed the sills don't actually go to the window castings :-)


dave

[Dennis Bourey]

Dave, That's perfect.Thanks