This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows how to properly mount window boxes, and This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares expert planting tips. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for Installing and Plant Window Boxes:
– cellular PVC window box
– siliconized caulk
– 5/16-inch-diamter x 4 inch-long galvanized lag screws and washers
– PVC cement
– assorted annuals and perennials
– landscape fabric
– washed stone
– potting soil
– liquid fertilizer
Tools for Installing and Plant Window Boxes
– drill/driver
– zip tool
– right-angle drill
– caulk gun
– ratchet wrench
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Homie is reacting like Tommy is speaking an alien language 😂
I never thought doing something like this involved so much work and tools
Pure genius!!! looking for ways to mount my boxes and almost spent 80 on brackets but now I can just make them out of wood!!! Thanks!!!
Saa 3:09 3:09 3:10
How do you attach plant windows bows to a bricks 🧱 🏡
Thanks Tom, always appreciate the lessons!
I love the energy of green shirt guy, 😂
I have wanted a window box for such a long time now. My house has vinyl siding and I am old and scared to try and install one myself. I have no one who can do it for me. My husband is disabled so I guess I will never have one.
How to do this at the second floor window without hiring people?
FYI Sweet potato vine does best in partial shade. I know because I plant them all the time.
When he says "whick out into the soil" what type of rope does he have there. 4:26 exactly into this clip.
Why not find the studs from inside the house and then measure where they are relative to the window?
They make it look so easy
Does anyone have a link to these window boxes and the self watering thing?
They make stud finders
These guys just took it to a new level!! I simply bought the plastic planter boxes with vigor brackets….
How about using a studfinder?
Can the trick with the zip tool be used on aluminum siding as well as vinyl siding ?
I've learned every home repair related skill I know from these 2
Couldn’t you use a stud finder on the inside to find a stud for reference? This would eliminate peeling off the siding.