What order to do things?

[Wobblydeb]

Hi - I am really pleased to have found this forum, and hoping it will help as we pull a neglected house into shape!

The house currently has old aluminium windows which we will replace with uPVC. The window reveals have been timber lined which I want to remove, and we will be replastering or skimming the entire room.

What order should this happen in to get the best / neatest end result with the new windows?

Remove timber
Skim/Plaster
Replace windows

Is this best order, or should we plaster after replacing windows?

 

[TheVictorian]

Remove everything, fit windows then plaster up to them.

Otherwise you may damage the plaster fitting the new windows.