BS 8213-4:1990
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Windows, doors and rooflights Code of practice for the installation of replacement windows and doorsets in dwellings
Hardcopy , PDF
03-30-2007
English
06-29-1990
Committees responsible
Foreword
Code of practice
Section one. General
1. Scope
2. Definitions
Section two. Preliminaries
3. Appraisal of the condition of the building
4. Method of installation
Section three. Work prior to installation
5. Measuring for production purposes
6. Planning the work
7. Transportation, storage and protection of products
8. Care of property
Section four. Installation
9. Installation of new windows, doorsets or surrounds
into structural openings
10. Installing windows and doorsets into new surrounds
11. Installing aluminium or steel windows and doorsets
into existing wood windows converted into surrounds
or into existing wood surrounds
12. Glazing
13. Final inspection
Section five. Completion and maintenance
14. Instructions
Figures
1. Wood or plastics frame or surround bridging the
wall cavity
2. Steel or aluminium frame bridging the wall cavity
3. Frame or surround with its inside face forward of
the damp proof membrane
4. Frame or surround with its inside face on the plane
of the damp proof membrane
5. Frame or surround with the outside plane correctly
related to a rebated structural opening
6. Frame or surround fitted to a structural opening
originally designed for a boxed sash window
7. Window and surround fitted to a flush opening in a
rendered wall
8. New wood sill projecting beyond the rebate of the
subsill
9. Overlap between subsill and new wood sill to provide
suitable joint seal
10. Seal to perimeter joint wider than 5 mm
11. Seal to perimeter joint wider than 10 mm
12. Fillet pointing to perimeter joints of 5 mm or less
in width
13. Seal to perimeter joint in rebated structural
opening
14. Frame bedded internally and externally to the
surround
15. Frame bedded internally and pointed externally to
the surround
16. Provision of drainage and ventilation at sill of
frame, where head and jamb detail is as in figure 14
17. Frame fully bedded to the surround
18. Internal bead applied to surround and external lap
joint bedded all round
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