Ripping Out Windows! What Do You Use?

 
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Old 05-02-2008, 12:50 PM   #1
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Ripping Out Windows! What Do You Use?


Hi guys im new to this forum but I have a question.

What blades do you use to rip out with and how much do you pay?

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Old 05-02-2008, 01:13 PM   #2
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Re: Ripping Out Windows! What Do You Use?


What type of blade for what type of saw for what type of window and what are you cutting? I'm not a window guy but I just took out some steel basement windows in a brick building, I used a torch.

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Re: Ripping Out Windows! What Do You Use?


Just get a good bi-metal blade for your saws-all. Try different tooth counts until you get one you are comfortable with. Lesser count (faster) work for nails. Maybe a finer count (slower) for some screws and bolts.

Limited experience, but what I have used. Can't remember the price.
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I picked up some bosch bimetal blades a while back on sale-1/2 price. Turns out they break a lot more easily than the typcial blades I would pick up-more time running down the ladder to change out blades which slowed the window replacement job.

buy good blades :-)
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You shoud be using an extractor to pull the aluminum frames out of the opening or cut around the window frame and leave the fin in the wall with a circular saw.
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