Container Home: Installing First Window - 04 October 2015

This is the second weekend in a row in which it has rained, thereby leaving me unable to apply the coal tar epoxy to the exterior wall. In order to continue with the build, I decided to go ahead and install the first window. I took my time doing this because of several reasons. First and foremost is that once the wall is cut out, I would not want to have to go back and make a change. I had to cordon off the bedroom part and decide what went where. We want a fireplace in the bedroom and after researching those early Saturday morning, I decided on an ethanol fireplace that will hang in the corner. Once I got that decision made, I was able to mark off where the window was going to go and proceed with cutting out the wall. Here are pics I took of it as it progressed. I used bedliner paint for coating the steel since it is very durable. I have also changed a part of the window design as I went through this. I am not going to tell much more on that since I am filing for a patent for the window frame design. What you see here is just a portion of the window frame design. I still have one more window to install along with the french door. I am going to proceed with the other window, but the french door will have to wait until I get the subfloor laid so that I can then gauge how to install it so it is flush with the flooring.

Here is the first part of cutting out the steel using my plasma cutter.

Here is after the panel was removed.

Here is a final view of the window from inside.

Here is a view from the outside. I am not concerned about the black paint getting on the rest of the container as it is going to be covered with cement backerboard and then stucco, which will conceal both the steel container walls and the paint.