How To Trim Metal Building Door And Window

As the final touch to metal residences and commercial buildings this trim also adds to a building s aesthetic appeal.

How to trim metal building door and window.

Find metal siding trim at lowe s today. This video is the seventeenth in our 24 step building installation series. Trim around the doors windows and openings of your metal buildings needs to be weatherproof durable and easily cleaned. It explains and demonstrates how to install door and window trim.

Raise up the window only slightly so the lip of the j trim on the top of the window slides under the steel siding at the top of the rough opening. The fillet a 1x6 and the cap molding. Explore all of our steel building components such as beams purlins and square tubing and find out more about our wide range accessories including trim for your building along with metal roll up doors walk doors windows insulation vents and screws. Traditionally this cap molding was solid but since a solid molding this large is hard to come by we substituted 2 1 4 in.

Without this trim the red structural door jamb will be visible outside of the building which just doesn t look finished properly. Door window opening trim protect and add an aesthetic appeal to every building with metal trim. The final step for both the door and the window trim is building and installing the head casing assembly. Similar to j channel used with vinyl siding j trim is nailed to the building s framing at the top edge and along any interior corner seams to hide the raw edges of the siding.

Framed openings on a heritage steel building include jambs header or sill trim and fasteners. Raise the window to the opening with the top facing upward and the bottom held slightly away from the building. Mbmi metal buildings will not cut corners. If necessary we can design your building with oversized framed openings.

Framed openings specify open portions of a wall that will be open for access including overhead doors windows vents or storefront glass. The base metal is galvalume which. It s made up of three parts.