Caught by surprise: how I had to put the low tide on the window

This is the case when you plan to do one amount of work in a day, and along the way they ask you to hook on a dozen more little things, which you, as if, already had to guess in advance. No, well, I can assume something, but if they ask to finish the house, how can you imagine that the owner will receive a revelation to urgently finish some imperfections on the street?

I went to a village in the suburbs and took with me only the tool that was necessary for laying linoleum. And here on you, did not have time to cross the threshold, the customer's wife meets with such a sweet and mysterious smile: "Could you first screw the low tide onto the window, otherwise we recently changed the window, but forgot the low tide right away to order. Yesterday, behold, it was brought and we thought that you just put it!? "

With linoleum, everything seemed to be clear in advance, so he accepted the challenge of ebb tide, although he did not often have to deal with them. However, the required tool was not available. In such cases, it is difficult to do without a mallet and scissors for metal.

I didn't take my own, but the owners provided something similar to a pair Rusty riveted Scythian swords and claimed that this is the scissors. I didn't argue, I just thought that I was much younger than these scissors and, naturally, did not have the honor of gaining the skill in handling them. But he decided to try them in practice. Curious!

The low tide, of course, had to be cut to length and then bend both edges so that water would not flow along the sides. I show only what needed to be done from the side, where the ebb had to be shortened also in length. On the other hand, accordingly, one less operation had to be performed.

• 1. I measure the width of the window opening against the outer brick. In my case, it is 99 cm.
• 2. Now I make markings on the back of the low tide with the expectation that you still need to leave the length to bend up with both edges 2 cm each and minus 1 cm from 99 cm so that the ebb with curved edges does not have to be pushed by force.

As a result, the following math comes out: 98 cm + 2 cm + 2 cm = 102 cm, we cut off the rest along the marked line (photo 2). Wherein I draw the bend line separately.

Eh, super scissors!!! Frankly, I tried to cut exactly, but it turned out for yourself, you can see how. It was comforting that later it was necessary to close the slope with insulation, which covered the uneven edge.

• 3. After cutting off the excess, it was necessary to make two cuts to the height of the existing bends with a miracle scissors. I did it somehow, although the metal was a little bit jammed.

• 4. Then I looked for an angle at which it would be possible to bend the edge along the line. I found it on some concrete curb or blind area, where I finally decided the issue. Since there was no mallet either, he bent the edge with his hand gradually and little by little.
• 5. Then I cut off the narrow excess at the place of the cuts, making a 45 degree bevel along the outer edge.

At this stage, I wanted to say a lot about miracle scissors and about how and where it would be worth applying them, but the historical value of the thing inspired respect, so I tried to write off everything on my inability.

This is how the ebb looked after the listed actions and it seemed that now it would snap into place without any problems and in a couple of minutes it would be screwed with three self-tapping screws with a press washer and a drill at the end. But then another surprise awaited! The master's windows have metal bars, under which special frames are welded and these frames make it difficult to deliver a ready-made, precisely verified ebb.

Having twisted the ebb in my hands for a couple of minutes, I realized that the carefully made bends would have to be partially cut off on both sides by about 5-6 cm and otherwise not. There’s nothing to be done, I cut it and kept thinking, but was it worth then even fiddling with these bends if they were not visible under the insulation?

In the end, I still adjusted the low tide, but still it did not work out as I wanted. Although distant the edge of the ebb led into the groove at the bottom of the window profile and screwed it to the auxiliary profile, which is under the frame, the angle of inclination of the ebb due to the metal frame turned out to be quite small. Here, perhaps, it was possible to screw the ebb without inserting it into the groove on the end, but directly to the face of the lower part of the frame. But for now the path will stand like that. Winter and the amount of snow at low tide will show what and how to do next. This is the final!

Write how you would act in such a situation?

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