Setting out windows

[Paulthegate]

Hi, I have taken down my old wooden 'conservatory' (before it fell down!!) and am starting from scratch. I have extended, only slightly, the base size and am soon getting a bricklayer round to do a single skin exterior. He needs to know the dimensions of the windows, however, I have a batch of windows that a bought from a company shutting down and they are all shapes and sizes!
I am doing a drawing for him and have all my window sizes but before I try and select these, I'm not sure about the size of any formers needed between windows. I was going to start with a couple of bricks in so that I done have to worry about the corners but its the inbetween bits I'm not sure about.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[noseall]

Interesting concept - buying the windows BEFORE doing the brickwork. Can't see it catching on myself, mainly because it doesn't save you any money in the long term.

Do any of the windows work in bricks, in particular the bricks that you will be using?

 

[stuart45]

If you are building a connie, you might have a problem getting enough brickwork between the frames in the walls to make it stable.

 

[Paulthegate]

Ive got a variety of windows, more than I need, so I'm trying to calculate what ones will combine with others. Yeah I know its a different concept hence me asking the questions of you guys who know better.

 

[theprinceofdarkness]

So figure out how you are going to support the roof, like a long piece of timber or some concrete lintels., then how you are going to support that set up, wooden posts/brick piers. Then spread your equally height windows along underneath and make the widths of the posts/piers to take up the slack. The timber work can be faced in plastic afterwards.
Frank

 

[^woody^]

If when putting all this together, you find that you are a window missing, look down the side of the settee - the missing pieces are normally there.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

You're such a pane woody!

 

[^woody^]

Lol.

Btw, I've a window going spare if anyone wants it. There's no catch.

 

[tomfe]