This expanded, 6-page guide presents the essentials of installing residential doors and windows.
Featuring many full-color illustrations, step-by-step instructions and useful tips, this is a great reference for the general contractor, the property owner and anyone else who needs a quick overview of the basics of installing and replacing doors and windows.
Features:
- Emergency Escape & Rescue Openings Required; Minimum Opening Area; Window Sill Height; Window Wells; Emergency Escape & Rescue Doors; Bars, Grilles, Covers & Screens; Emergency Escape & Rescue Openings Under Decks & Porches
- Means of Egress - Egress Doors; Means of Egress; Egress Doors; Floors & Landings at Exterior Doors
- Window Area & Glazing Window Glazing Area; Habitable Rooms; Adjoining Rooms; Bathrooms; Glazing Identification; Louvered Windows or Jalousies; Human Impact Loads; Glazing & Hazardous Locations; Screens; Min. Category Classification of Glazing
- NFRC Label NFRC Window Label; NFRC Door Label; U-Factor; Air Leakage (AL); Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC); Condensation resistance (CR); Visible Transmittance (VT)
- Exterior Doors & Windows Performance General; Performance; Testing & Labeling; Windborne Debris Protection; Anchorage Methods; Masonry, Concrete or other Structural Substrate; Wood or other Approved Framing Materials; Mullions
- Framing Doors & Windows Wood Wall Framing - Design & Construction; Fastening Schedule Wall; Door & Window Framing; Single Member Headers; Supports for Headers; Minimum No. of Full Height Studs at Each End of Headers in Exterior Walls; Top Plate; Bearing Studs; Bottom (Sole) Plate; Interior Walls; Size, Height & Spacing of Wood Studs
- Doors - Components, Types & Installations Parts of Doors; Installing A Pre-Hung Door; Door Threshold; Installing Doors; Types of Doors - Hinged Doors, Bi-fold Doors, French Doors, Dutch Doors (Stable Doors), Stacker Doors & Sliding Doors
- Windows - Components, Types & Installations - Window Components - Single Hung Window; Installing Windows; Operable Types of Windows - Single Hung Windows, Double Hung Windows, Sliding Windows, Hinged/Casement Windows, Awning Windows, Hopper Windows, Jalousie/Louvered Windows; Fixed/Non Operable Windows Bay Windows, Bow Windows, Garden Windows, Picture Windows, Transom Windows, Skylight Windows, Glass Block Windows; Other Types of Windows - Egress Windows; Storm Windows
ISBN/Book No.:1622702018 / 9781622702015