This one went in more easily. Using an amateur like me means that you get to learn from his mistakes (hmm - some pronouns wrong there).
This, though, was better. On the first one I'd tightened a couple of screws so as to distort the frame, and one half of the window is now a little stiff to open and close. We had some difficulty hanging that side on it's hinges. But it's a bathroom window and it's unlikely to get a lot of use. On this one we were able to fix the frame in place at the top and bottom carefully, and then gradually tighten the other screws. With the result that the two leaves of the window slipped very easily onto the hinges.
This one too we drilled the screw-holes from the inside (the room side), and were able to countersink them and give a nice clean result, which we'll use wood-filler on eventually.
Fitting the handle (posed)
I was pleased to find how accurately I'd levelled the concrete sill, though there is the rather curious effect that it looks well out of true, because the room and the window frame leans distinctly to the left. I was also pleased that I had managed to get the window dimensions just right, so it was a good fit:
The finished window
The next two will have to wait a bit, as we'll have to cast the new sills, and let them harden before we can fit the window. But at least the external side of the fort has two new matching windows.
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