Routing window for seal

rjp996 · 8 Oct 2010

Hi,

New here but been reading a lot over the past few weeks. Currently I am renovating my house that has the original oak casement windows, Surfice to say I have gone through 3 yrs of very cold winters with the drafty windows. Anyhow was going to make a start and since the windows seal badly was going to install some window seals such as Aquamac. I have been looking and was going to see if I could route the frames with a specialist router bit to make the correct grove to accept the sealing strip. My question is, I can see how to route most of the frame, but does anyone have any suggestions on how I can route up to or create the groove slot into the corners of the frame, as the router will cut most of the frame but not into the corners (as the router bed/plate) gets in the way. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could overcome this and cut the last few inches of groove into the corners of the frame. - thanks

RogerS · 8 Oct 2010

see this thread https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/bosc ... ht=aquamac

GazPal · 8 Oct 2010

If routing from the face of the frame you should be able to cut fairly tight to the corners using a weather seal cutter and finish the groove using a chisel.

Switch over to a 1/4" shank cutters and you'll be able to get in tighter by using a smaller router/laminate trimmer such as Bosch GKF600. A 1/4" shank arbor with wing slot cutter should help improve matters. All can be found at Axminster.co.uk among their routing section.

JoinerySolutions · 9 Oct 2010

Think outside of the box.
Take off the sashes and route them instead, use the door seals oh heck let me do a sketch.....

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Wealdon Tools do a good cutter at a very reasonable cost and are most helpful.
It may look odd at first but it is a quick and easy way to do the job and all that changes really is the Aquamac 21 is in the sash and not stationary in the frame.

Rob.
Edit:- The part of the seal that looks like it is in the frame would flatten and compress to provide a weather seal, could not be bothered to draw more than required. :lol:

rjp996 · 16 Oct 2010

Thank you to all that replied, very very helpful, and I will use all those suggestions. I'm off to look at trimmers tomorrow, but may also look at cutting down the base of an old router I have to experiment to route the frame. Additionaly thanks for the suggestion for routing the casement and using the door seals, I have taken a look and can see that i will need to combine both the routing of the frame as well as the door seal approach on a few of the windows I have. Thanks to all, and I will post a couple of pics when finished.