Thank you!! We are really challenged with these old 1960s double windows and I asked my sweet hubby to replace one of thses buggers in my kitchen window! Its a big chore! Thanks for the tips....and yes...we are one of those 8 people who needed to see this! Lol
Please use a 1x4 against the wall and what you are using to pry on so you don’t destroy your walls I’m a master installer that tool is junk and this guy has to be joking I’ll post a video and maybe I can save people time and money
I purchased this tool and removed 27 windows and sliding doors from brick house. This tool is unbelievable. Made the job so much easier. Literally minutes to pull out the frames and cut them with my saws all after freeing the frames from the brick.
Harbor Freight sells the lockable pliers for 3 dollars each and Home Depot sells an 8-inch long lagbolt with a a few nuts to hold pliers in place. Drill 2 holes into the pliers and mount to a pipe. Works fine, pulled all windows off an old concrete block house last week. Total cost little under 8 dollars with sales tax.
That first pry tool is called a fubar. Stanley makes a 30" beast. Called the FatMax Xtreme III-fubar for about 70 bucks. Smaller one for about 30. It is worth every penny!!!
You can make one of these, just search on YT for aluminum window frame removal tool. A few pieces of pipe, threaded long rods, 2 vice grips, some nuts, washers. Harbor Frieght vice and HD for pipe, washers, nuts, long screw rod. Easily made, use wood blocks for leverage on bricks or inside sill.
Those old windows are literally the easiest ones to get out. I’m a professional window installer here in Florida. I can tell you now you definitely don’t need that big goofy gimmick 😂. You literally can either deglaze the window or use carpet shield to cover the upper fixed glass. You should have removed that lower operating sash first. Take a skill saw with a metal blade or a sawzall make one or Two cuts on the jamb side. Block of wood and a pry bar have that frame out under 10 minutes. We do around 10-15 windows a day. Newer construction windows are way more difficult than these ones. Stucco cut outs on wood frame nails fin windows is a whole other story. Oh yeah make sure you score the outside and inside of the windows with a razor knife.
Thanks for the video. I always enjoy these types of videos when people make it so much harder than it needs to be. These windows come out with 2 cuts , even a timber blade in your reciprocal saw will suffice. 10 mins maximum. Thanks for sharing though.
I received this tool a couple weeks ago & used it to remove 2 windows (12 yet to go). I did not find it helpful. The seller's website shows his wife using it. I'm 5'7", 112#. It was difficult to manipulate overhead & the vice grips rotate (I often had to reposition them). It wasn't worth near $300 (especially when I later learned there are no refunds). I actually found a sledge hammer & crowbar easier to use. I contacted the seller who told me in a text follow up that he recommended a helper (that's not what the video of his wife showed). As a side note, he sends a religious T-shirt. I appreciate his sentiment but didn't want a shirt. I asked they not send one. One was sent anyway with a note stating that's what they promote.
