The Zen of Windows: A detailed technical guide for architects, contractors, homeowners, and other construction professionals in leak-resistant window ... envelope solutions. (The Zen of Shelter)

This book provides highly-detailed technical guidance in the selection of leak-resistant windows and their installation to limit risk of water intrusion. It includes many dozens of intricate, step-by-step installation drawings for a variety of cladding types and wall assemblies, and hundreds of photographs illustrating these installation methods, which have been developed in nearly four decades of analyzing hundreds of window failures, and have by now been successfully used to guide the installation of thousands of windows.This technical guide is intended to assist architects and building enclosure consultants in the design of leak-resistant window detailing, and general and specialty contractors, as well as “do-it-yourself” homeowners, in leak-resistant installation methods of typical, nail-flange windows. Construction-defects attorneys and litigation experts may also find this publication an invaluable helper in understanding factors leading to window infiltration problems. Read more