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| > >> I'm just about ready to start replacing my windows and I'm looking at the | > >> window sill and framing material - 3/4" plywood. Seems pretty damn | > >> chintzy to me, especially around something that will in all likelyhood | > >> get damp or wet at some point. I'm personally not going to replace it | > >> with plywood, but I wanted to level set my thinking here and make sure | > >> I'm not being overly harsh on the contractor who built the place.
1960 | > >> is the build date for this house. | >
| > > Who cares what it's made of? No matter what, you will paint or otherwise | > > coat it as if it was a piece of balsa wood lashed to the mast of a | > > sailboat about to go around the world eight time. You'll use the best | > > paint you can find in your town, or marine grade polyurethane, because as | > > you said, that wood's going to be exposed to moisture. And, as you did not | > > say, it'll be exposed to sunlight. | >
| > Well maybe I used the wrong terminology here. I mean the framing on the | > INSIDE of the window, the window box material. Guess I'm not totally sure | > what to call it. It isn't automatically painted, the front window of my | > house has a piece of cedar for a sill.- Hide quoted text - | >
| > - Show quoted text - | | I usually use clear douglas fir or pine if it is to be painted.
just to add my 2 cents............ because I can. spanish cedar, fir, yellow pine, mahogany, spruce are all used for window sils. heck, I've even seen pressure treated used also.
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