How to install a WINDOW SILL you won't REGRET!!!

Window sills are WAY TRICKIER THAN PEOPLE THINK!!! They take a lot of planning to get all those reveals JUST RIGHT! In this video I show some tips and tricks to help you get a perfect window sill install.

[carpnotes]

Gotta say, I learn so much from your drywall vids - but you offer such tight tips on finish carpentry that I wish you'd post more of them.
Great vid, thanks for sharing so much content throughout the year; please know your efforts are appreciated.
Your tips have helped me up my game in the repair arena - can't than you enough

[trevor]

I like your realistic approach making these videos.. Showing your mistakes is much more helpful than editing them out like other "Perfect" videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[nroman]

The slide markey thing is a combination square. Love your Videos, just trying to help if someone is trying to find one. Also the little nurled round bit on the frame is actually a metal scribe hidden in a convienient spot since it's sharp point won't dull and is more accurate than a pencil.

To fine tune the back gap why not run a carpenters pencil down the back wall and where ever it marks tune it with an orbital sander or belt sander. Easy way to get a contour match. It's an old countertop makers trick when not installing a backsplash.

[PerkBuilders]

Yo Ben! Love that you’ve “worked alone” all these years. I prefer the same. Sure, some things come a bit slower, but it reduces the nightmare quite a bit. 🤙 from Portland, OR.

[ivanmartinez]

This has been the most complicated way of doing window sills I have ever seen in my life....

Step 1 get your inside horizontal dimension measurements & add your outside reveal over hang measurement to your inside measurement ( for example if your inside is 36 and your outside reveal overhang is an 1inch then you add 2 inches to 36 and you get 38".
Step 2 measure your inside jamb perpendicular on each side and add your apron stock measurements (for example if your left side is 3inches and your stock is 3/4 then one side is going to be 3 3/4 repeat same method on opposite side.
Step 3 transfer all measurements to your stock you want rip first then establish your over hang reveal once doing that mark the insude corner of the overhang
Step 4 with an angel finder you butt your angel finder to the corners of your window sill and you get your corner angel and line it up to your stocks corner points or the over hang you transferred.
Step 5 once you have transferred your previous dimension to the the stock you cut and rip as needed per your measurements then transfer your corner angel to line up to your inside point of the overhang reveal. Cut with a jigsaw and wallah easy window sill

[simpleton]

I think a five degree taper on the apron gives a nice look and just a touch shorter like a thirty second helps the eye.

[debandmike]

Finally, its the Vancouver CARPENTER!

[noexcuses]

Love your videos. So, what I have learned is: It's hard to be good and you are good.

[daleleibfried]

I get what your doing but you officially confused the entire diy you tube community. Also I love your drywall vids. Signed, 25yr carpenter

[toogreedy]

Wow my brain hurts! Lol
This old house explains/showed me easier, however your drywall is spot on!😇🤣

[poepflater]

I suggest you get a long metal or wooden ruler... tape measures normally have a bit of movement in the grippy bit at the end, so they are only accurate under tention, not when you lay it on the side and press a pencil against it. I know it is only an mm or so, but you said be accurate.

[CindyCox]

So cool to see you as the Carpenter today. Looking forward to the next one and before I sign off, I want to say "thank you" for making these videos possible.

[firstcommunitychurchofgod-]

Going crazy with he nail gun at the end... just made thee painters job harder.

[b.powell]

There's these wood thingies that are tapered called shims! You can use them to level/plumb the window trim/casing and sill !!

[MadsWorld]

i just wanted to say THANKS for your videos. my house looks so much better since i found your videos. i watched video after video until i found yours after that yours is the only one i followed spots i messed up and could not figure out how to fix you had a video somewhere to show me how to do it. i just found a spot in my bed room after i got my bed in and was laying down and saw it that will drive me nuts. so i will be looking back through your videos to see how i fix something that is already finished. again thanks your the reason my house looks so great.

[tsetendorjee]

Thank you very much for share us How to install a WINDOW SILL you won't REGRET!!!

[matthewlynch]

A quick tip... you have the marks on the wall for your casing. Just hold the window stool against the wall' and mark the insides of the window jambs.

[SteveLouzon]

It's called a "combination square".

[danhunik]

Nice to see you back to your one topic videos. They are a great teaching aide.

[jonwikan]

Always great videos from you. The inside "sill" is the Stool and the outside often angled one is the Window Sill. I know, I know, we always call it the window sill in North America but the window sits on the sill(often wood or stone) and the trim inside part is the stool. In modern building the sill would be just framing with some peel and stick. Maybe the term because it is used as a stool for asses, plants and whatever else we can fit on it? Maybe the word is evolving like the word Venison, which used to mean hunted wild game, now it kind of means hunted wild deer meat.