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  • Curious to hear ideas for this windowsill.

    It's on our outhouse in an area we're tidying up. The previous owners obviously scored a double glazed unit and installed with the wooden sill. I've discovered the brick sill below is the original and would have matched with the house.

    I started to paint the sill and frame white (as I was using it elsewhere), and it's occurred to me that part of what makes it look so shit is that the green paint makes it look like spare paint was being used. Going to do the surround in black.

    Uninstall/reinstalling is not an option. My two thoughts are:

    1. Work out a way of cutting the wooden sill flush and blending it into the frame so you only see the brick sill. I have a circular saw, but doubt it'll get flush enough.
    2. Build a bigger "fake sill" to merge the two together.

    Any bright ideas?


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  • Curious to hear ideas for this window.

    Destroy!

  • I would remove that with an oscillating saw (fein etc.) or a normal saw even and then plane it flat. The closer you get to flat the less planing but if your plane is sharp and you know what you're doing it would be pretty easy.

    My only concern would be what happens under the existing cill, how well it is sealed to the original and can you create a neat waterproof join there.

  • Paint one of the two sills green, or some other dark colour.

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