Thread 2937196

How would you patch this basement window?
I got a new electrical service and IT conduits to my garage and we had to remove the old basement window to get them through. I would like to put glass block in there, but I'm not sure if the dimensions would work out. I'm also not sure how to make it work around the conduit. I'm going to add a 3/4" water line soon as high as it can go like the others.

I'm thinking about ripping out all the old wooden frame, and putting glass block down low as high as I can go until I hit the conduit, and then using painted plywood on the outside like the piece I have in there now but with foam board sandwiched on the inside. Does anyone know of a better way to seal this thing up? Ideally I would be able to add more penetrations in the future but I think I'm pretty set here so it should be fine.

>>2937196 (OP)
The pic in the OP is from the outside and has the sill level with the ground, but the trench I dug makes it look higher.

Here's how it looks from the inside. It might be tricky to get that bottom piece of the frame out of the concrete, but we'll see.

Vertical measurement. How do I seal the edges if it doesn't align nicely with 4 or 6" blocks?

>>2937199
Horizontal measurement, starting from the outside of the opposite frame

it should be easy to remove, it's two pieces of wood already around the pipes. I'd do something about that frame too, the 1" hole can't be doing you any favors. whatever you do I'd take out the frame.

glass blocks will be impossible to remove.

vertical holes are bad.

here are some sketches maybe you can glean something

>>2937196 (OP)
Dumbass. You are supposed to drill through the wall you don't run shit through windows.

>>2937196 (OP)
what the fuck??
brother why did you run it through a WINDOW??? it's infinitely less work to just drill through the wall and you get to still have a window.....

>>2937289
>>2937308

No choice, it's an 1894 house with jerry rigged foundations. Most of the previous stuff was run through the window frame itself. I've had builders and electricians out here and no one wants to drill through 2 feet of a fieldstone foundation, and there isn't enough room to do that anyways. I was always planning on replacing this window anyways so made sense to do this.

>>2937274
Thanks for the sketch. The holes aren't vertical, it's just the pictures. The current conduit are running horizontally through that window space, and I added the plywood as a temporary measure.

>>2937196 (OP)
Ok here's an idea. Make a new widow but smaller. just to the right of the conduit. Then use concrete or something to fill out the space around the conduit.