Has anyone here ever installed their own residential windows?

I built my whole house, trailer piece by trailer piece. PJ taught me how.

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Assuming you and a wooden frame on the inside of the concrete casing, it should be fairly easy to install the windows. Don't forget your shims.

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Remodeling a home that is around 100 years old and helped my wife's grandfather put our windows in. It was fairly easy with it being a wooden frame on the house.

I installed mine in my camp house. I had window world come measure them but I installed them. It is really quite easy after you do a couple. I went with double pane vinyl windows.

I saved about 70% off the price quoted from Lowes. Heck, taking the old windows out was more of a chore than installing the new ones.

Tips to do:

Remove the inside trim as cleanly as possible, if the trim has been caulked and painted to wall, use a razor knife to cut caulk and a thin putty knife to slowly and carefully remove trim. Remove the nails from the trim by pulling them through the back. Do not hammer them through the face (front) as you will have to repaint the trim. A nail puller plier makes this easy.

Use a reciprocating saw to cut the nails that hold the old window jam into the wall frame. Have someone outside and push the window out and let them set it out of the way. Clean any caulk and crap from frame.

Have outside guy set new windows into the hole. Use wooden shims to make window level, plumb and true. My windows came with screws that were hidden behind the weatherstripping. Be careful you dont damage weatherstripping when screwing in. After it is screwed in, open and close the windows to make sure they open easily and fully.

Use an expanding foam to seal between the window and the house frame. Use the low expansion type, there are some types of foam that when it hardens it "grows" and will warp the window and make it difficult or impossible to open the windows.

Replace inside trim and move to next one.