picture? Take a look at the windows in the dormers. The window on the right has been raised 13" from its
original position. As you can see where we originally located the dormer windows turned out to be too low once
the porch roof had been installed. Call me a perfectionist but this had been bothering me for weeks and now
that we were ready to side the dormers it was time to move the windows to a more appropriate location.
Actually moving both dormer windows only took about 3 hours and the time was well spent as the new location
is much better.
material is the same tongue and groove that's used on the interior walls and the ceilings of the porches. After
the soffit was complete we installed corner trim boards. These are 2x6 boards mitered at 45 degrees and
backed with a half inch piece of OSB. We used the OSB to help them stand out and give a more pronounced
reveal when the siding is installed.
The plans for these dormers call for the siding to use stockade corners. This would give the dormers the same
look as all the corners of the house but we felt that the installation of stockade corners here would make the
dormers look too heavy and bulky. The solution was to simply use trim boards on the corners. Because we
raised the garage walls almost 18" we will use the extra stockade corners left over from the dormers there.
the dormers 15 lb. felt paper was installed to seal out the weather.
Kuhns Brothers provides 3 1/2"x 1 3/4" trim material for all outside windows and doors. However, when you
have curved windows like these the curved trim has to be made on site. Since we had no 1 3/4" thick material
wide enough to make substantial curves we chose to use 1 1/2" left over fascia boards. We then used a couple
pieces of 1/8" Luann plywood behind each curved trim piece to give it the proper thickness. The straight trim
boards were then cut from the provided material. Square windows would have been a whole lot easier to trim
out but the "boss" wanted curved windows in the dormers so the extra work they required was not an option.
pieces. The location of this piece will ensure we have a full piece of siding at the bottom of the dormer and we
won't have to trim both the top and bottom pieces during the installation process.
all this work by lunch but hay, we're amateurs and this stuff always takes a little longer.
two main dormers are now complete except for caulking. This we'll save for another sunny day. We do have
one more dormer over the kitchen but it's slightly smaller and we'll get to the siding on that one another day.
