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right way to do a half fast fix?
I'm trying to tighten up my garage a little bit... there's two windows
on the lower level that were installed in a block wall with brick facing. Unfortunately whoever did this didn't have a freaking clue what he was doing, and to make matters worse, he was using brick with holes in it, not solid brick, so a lot of the half bricks are really messily split. There's gaps all around, and they were just shoved full of fiberglass insulation - the only thing that kept this from being a rot factory is that the upper level overhangs the lower level by about a foot. I dug out most of the insulation and spray foamed the heck out of it. What would be the best way to finish this off - just trim the foam with a knife and paint right over it, or should I put a skim coat of caulking over it before paint? I will need to go back and caulk some places where the gap was appropriate and I couldn't get the spray foam nozzle in it. I know the RIGHT thing to do would be to knock out the brick and have a mason come back and do it right, and then have a window guy put new windows in (and if I were going to do that, I'd relocate both of them so that they'd not interfere with walls and/or the stair stringer like they do now... yeah, really...) but this is a garage, after all, and I have stuff to spend my $$$ on in the house... ideas? nate -- replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply. http://members.cox.net/njnagel |
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