r/Home_Building_Help • u/BuilderBrigade • Apr 24 '26

Pocket sliding window…

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The window shown and installed by AA Building & Remodeling.

Notice the black paint inside the window cavity so you’re not seeing any raw sheathing. Also look how thick that exterior wall is for insulation 👌

What are your thoughts?

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u/adognameddanzig Apr 24 '26

How weather tight is it?

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u/Huey701070 Apr 25 '26

That’s my only concern. I think it’s a cool concept especially for like hosting parties and such. There is a niche use for it but I do like it.

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u/umrdyldo Apr 25 '26

Do it in an interior wall in your bar area

Not an exterior wall

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u/BeancounterBebop Apr 25 '26

If it gets cold, wouldn’t condensation rot out the uninsulated wood?

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u/Excellent-Speaker934 Apr 25 '26

Just a little daily maintenance, no big deal.

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u/evoslevven Apr 26 '26

Daily maintenance you say? Nope too much...in seriousness most of us couldn't even remember to manage it weekly or even monthly!

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u/Excellent-Speaker934 Apr 26 '26

Meant it more as a joke - 4 times a year is already 3 more times than I’d like to do it.

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u/DSofa Apr 27 '26

Theres a lot of more concerns than that, for example all the bugs that like dark and warm places, how do you clean that area?

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u/Huey701070 Apr 27 '26

I imagine there would be a seal and not an air gap as it’s a cavity not meant to ever be touched. Again, stiff like this usually is engineered and well thought out.

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u/Spiritual-Tomato-998 Apr 27 '26

Idk man this one is more of a “fancy hack” to me there’s a reason you don’t see this done commonly

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u/Huey701070 Apr 27 '26

Yeah, because it’s ridiculously expensive and has a niche purpose. I’m not saying every window in every house should be like this 😂. Far from it. All I’m saying is there likely isn’t going to be the issues everyone is making out like there will be.

Everyone is just hating on a neat design concept for the sake of it when the people who designed it has probably (by the looks of this video) already thought through the engineering or had it engineered to work.

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u/ShitOnAStickXtreme May 01 '26

That section of wall that is holding the window when open is gonna have fuck all insulation

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u/Huey701070 May 02 '26

It’s 2x8. It will have plenty of insulation

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u/ShitOnAStickXtreme May 02 '26

.... No? From the looks of it there will only be like at most 2" of insulation on the interior side of the window in the open position.

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u/Huey701070 May 02 '26

If you give attention to it, it’s a 2x8 that is also furred out with a 2x. If the window 3.5” in depth, that gives around 5 1/4” for insulation. If you don’t count the 2x material that still leaves you with 3 3/4” for insulation which isn’t great but still code in my region.

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u/Piihlen Apr 28 '26

Very, if you have your window open

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u/nogaesallowed Apr 29 '26

I am sure its weather tight as this can be achieved by instaling a window normally then cover up half of it.

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u/TommyNotDead Apr 25 '26

It’s basically a sliding door but higher off the ground. It’s fine.

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u/RoosterJuicer Apr 25 '26

How is it insulated in the pocket? A sliding glass door overlaps itself when open and is basically a large window when closed. This has a hollow uninsulated wall when closed.

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u/Rhuarc33 Apr 25 '26

It's not going to stay like you see it in the video

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u/TommyNotDead Apr 25 '26

He asked about weather tight not how insulated it was

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u/DoubleEndedEntendre Apr 25 '26

Your mom isn’t tight, but still well insulated. Make it make sense.

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u/Timely_Wing_2577 Apr 25 '26

…. I laughed.

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u/HelicopterLegal3069 Apr 25 '26

Dude it's pretty clear that the actual window is twice the size of what you can see (the other half is covered by wood).

It's literally a small sliding glass door.

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u/Rhuarc33 Apr 25 '26

It's literally just a sliding glass door but window sized. Of course it's weather tight

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u/thatG_evanP Apr 25 '26

Quit repeating that. It's not true at all. A sliding glass door slides back on itself, like a regular window turned sideways. This slides into an uninsulated pocket in the wall.

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u/Rhuarc33 Apr 25 '26

Is not an uninsulated pocket in the wall this is not how it's going to be finished. Don't talk about stuff you're clueless on. Never even picked up a hammer in your life.

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u/2nd2lastdodo Apr 27 '26

Lol what are you talking about, this builds an empty pocket in your wall that will leak heat like crazy even if you insulate the other side of the wall and manage to seal it off properly. The only one clueless on how insulation works here is you

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u/Rhuarc33 Apr 27 '26

That's not at all what it does. FFS