How to Install and Plant Window Boxes | This Old House
How to Install and Plant Window Boxes | This Old House
This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows how to properly mount window boxes, and This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares expert planting tips. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for Installing and Plant Window Boxes:
– cellular PVC window box
– siliconized caulk
– 5/16-inch-diamter x 4 inch-long galvanized lag screws and washers
– PVC cement
– assorted annuals and perennials
– landscape fabric
– washed stone
– potting soil
– liquid fertilizer
Tools for Installing and Plant Window Boxes
– drill/driver
– zip tool
– right-angle drill
– caulk gun
– ratchet wrench
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What kind of rope is the wicking material made out of?? I’ve been wanting to make my own version of this reservoir for a long time now
Link for that planter box?
Why not find the studs from inside the house and then measure where they are relative to the window?
I remember finding this show painfully boring as a kid, but now it is essential knowledge. Didn’t know about needing to caulk the drill holes, thank you!
So complicated
That was a flawless transition from light Bostonian accent heavy Bostonian accent
When he says "whick out into the soil" what type of rope does he have there. 4:26 exactly into this clip.
That reservoir is a great touch, gonna have to build one of those. Is the rope nylon or what?
They make it look so easy
I’ve learned every home repair related skill I know from these 2
Didn’t know it would be that complicated.
Does anyone have a link to these window boxes and the self watering thing?
FYI Sweet potato vine does best in partial shade. I know because I plant them all the time.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to use a stud finder than to pull up the siding and go thru’ all the problem of putting it back properly?
Thank you so much!!!! I gave up on my dream of having the perfect window flower box until this video. I also have vinyl siding and it’s a pain! I’m so grateful for you! Thank you!
The client has no idea what they are talking about
Woodglut has a very large project base.
How about using a studfinder?
Those are the loneliest looking window boxes, that guy had bad flower choices
I made it with Woodglut plans!
Couldn’t you use a stud finder on the inside to find a stud for reference? This would eliminate peeling off the siding.
WINDOW BAWHX!
Would this be the same process for a stucco house?
congratz, u just installed what will eventually end up as weeds in-front of your windows.
These guys just took it to a new level!! I simply bought the plastic planter boxes with vigor brackets….
They make stud finders
Can the trick with the zip tool be used on aluminum siding as well as vinyl siding ?
Helpful information, thank you for sharing !!
You gotta lova American houses. Sticks of wood covered in multiple layers of plastic.
The vinyl siding installer should have nailed the siding into the spot where there is a framing stud. Apparently the installer on this house did not…