March 10Mar 10 The typical roof window install is cut a rafter, double up the rafter either side of the opening and install double horizontal timbers to carry the cut rafter. Image from Fakro install doc attached. All of the installations I can find show installation in the middle of a roof. Our upper story has 1.6m walls. I want to install the window as low as possible, as close to the rafter wall plate as I can. Fitting the lower doubled up horizontal timbers right next to the wall plate takes up space which i'd like to avoid. Anyone installed a roof window low down in a roof, up against a wall plate?
March 10Mar 10 would it be easier if you did a matching wall window attached to it- is there a worthwhile view?
March 10Mar 10 It might be worth asking Fakro themselves about flashings. Alternatively might their combination windows be an option for you? The sloped window meets a vertical directly at that junction. Velux do similar.
March 10Mar 10 Don’t know if this helps any - it’s fairly common to bevel the plasterboard below and above the window. (We have ours bevelled in all 4 directions, but that’s a bit of a faff.) Would that help your objective?
March 10Mar 10 Author 7 hours ago, Nickfromwales said: Your issue will be the lower flashing, and how close you can take that to the gutter. I think there will be enough distance between wall plate and gutter for flashing. We have very deep corbelled eaves. 7 hours ago, dpmiller said: would it be easier if you did a matching wall window attached to it- is there a worthwhile view? It's a maybe. Not sure how we would stand with planning for that though. 7 hours ago, torre said: It might be worth asking Fakro themselves about flashings. Alternatively might their combination windows be an option for you? The sloped window meets a vertical directly at that junction. Velux do similar. Worth an email to them to see if they have anything. 6 hours ago, Alan Ambrose said: Don’t know if this helps any - it’s fairly common to bevel the plasterboard below and above the window. (We have ours bevelled in all 4 directions, but that’s a bit of a faff.) Would that help your objective? I was planning to splay top and bottom. Is splaying the sides worth the effort?? Pictures might help: Edited March 10Mar 10 by Digmixfill
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