Can a wider kitchen window replace the exsting one ?

[Mutley56]

Season's greetings,
Would it be a straight forward job for a wider window to be installed to replace the existing one on the far left hand side? There are breeze blocks, of whatever they are called, to the immediate left of the window that can be removed. Picture attached.
Thanks
Mutley56

 

[Tigercubrider]

Yes but......

Can't see enough in the picture . There should be support above the window and it needs to be long enough to cover the whole window. It may already be long enough but I suspect the breeze blocks are the support.

Presumably you will have curtains - they normally take up that space to the left so what do you gain?

 

[Mutley56]

Thanks tigers
I should have said that the windows are in the kitchen

Thanks for the reply. The kitchen is being revamped. The sink is moving to the left and it would mean facing half a window then breeze blocks when standing in front of the repositioned sink. Above and below the window are the plastic frames. I will post a better picture today

 

[Mutley56]

Another picture. Would like the glazing within a new window unit to extend to the vertical chalk line.

 

[Tigercubrider]

I am not in the trade but suspect that you'd need to fit a new lintel which isn't that difficult but not a. s easy as " one out- one in" but so long as the lintel has support at each end it should be ok.

My kitchen window is the same- above the sink the window is hard into the corner- but lintel goes across through the wall . Is it possible that your window is a standard size and a bigger opening was bricked up?

 

[Mutley56]

Thanks again, a new steel lintel is fitted well above the window and supported either side on pad stones. The breeze blocks are a filler to the left in the original pre existing window opening. I'll post a better picture as the second one was a rubbish shot. I think that the window simply screws into the frame on the right hand side and so could removed, the breeze blocks on the left of it removed and a replacement wider window put back in. But I don't know if there is more to the task than that

 

[Doggit]

Whoever did the last window should be avoided in future. Because there is an RSJ in there, it looks as though they've just created a wooden infill above the window, but not a good one. But because there's already an RSJ, you can take the window out, and then remove the breeze blocks, and then fit the wider window. The problem you're left with, is to redo the infill above the window. You can't put in a lintel, as you've got a padstone by the wall, so you need to find a way of butting wooden lintel up against the wall, and maybe fitting it in with a 90 degree metal strap.

What is going in (or was) above the window lintel.

 

[Mutley56]

Thanks Doggit. Above the kitchen is a new upstairs extension. I will ask the builder to remove the window, install a new one and make good the gap.
Mutley56

 

[RichA]

What wall covering is on the outside hiding the wood above the window?

 

[Mutley56]

Outside cement board and render. Inside insultion cut to fit, boarding then plaster board