BS 8213-4:1990

Committees responsible
Foreword
Code of practice
Section one. General
1. Scope
2. Definitions
Section two. Preliminaries
3. Appraisal of the condition of the building
4. Method of installation
Section three. Work prior to installation
5. Measuring for production purposes
6. Planning the work
7. Transportation, storage and protection of products
8. Care of property
Section four. Installation
9. Installation of new windows, doorsets or surrounds
     into structural openings
10. Installing windows and doorsets into new surrounds
11. Installing aluminium or steel windows and doorsets
     into existing wood windows converted into surrounds
     or into existing wood surrounds
12. Glazing
13. Final inspection
Section five. Completion and maintenance
14. Instructions
Figures
1. Wood or plastics frame or surround bridging the
     wall cavity
2. Steel or aluminium frame bridging the wall cavity
3. Frame or surround with its inside face forward of
     the damp proof membrane
4. Frame or surround with its inside face on the plane
     of the damp proof membrane
5. Frame or surround with the outside plane correctly
     related to a rebated structural opening
6. Frame or surround fitted to a structural opening
     originally designed for a boxed sash window
7. Window and surround fitted to a flush opening in a
     rendered wall
8. New wood sill projecting beyond the rebate of the
     subsill
9. Overlap between subsill and new wood sill to provide
     suitable joint seal
10. Seal to perimeter joint wider than 5 mm
11. Seal to perimeter joint wider than 10 mm
12. Fillet pointing to perimeter joints of 5 mm or less
     in width
13. Seal to perimeter joint in rebated structural
     opening
14. Frame bedded internally and externally to the
     surround
15. Frame bedded internally and pointed externally to
     the surround
16. Provision of drainage and ventilation at sill of
     frame, where head and jamb detail is as in figure 14
17. Frame fully bedded to the surround
18. Internal bead applied to surround and external lap
     joint bedded all round

Refers to dwellings only and supplies recommendations for the installation, into existing structural openings, of windows and doorsets with hinged or sliding leaves, manufactured from metal, plastics or wood, and supplied with or without surrounds. It also applies to windows and doorsets fitted into existing wood surrounds or into existing wood windows converted into surrounds. Includes definitions and diagrams.