A windowsill (also written window sill or window-sill, and less frequently in British English, cill) is the horizontal structure or surface at the bottom of a window. Window sills serve to structurally support and hold the window in place.
The exterior portion of a window sill provides a mechanism for shedding rainwater away from the wall at the window opening. Therefore, window sills are usually inclined slightly downward away from the window and wall, and often extend past the exterior face of the wall, so the water will drip off rather than run down the wall.
Some windowsills are made of natural stone, cast stone, concrete, tile, or other non-porous materials to further increase their water resistance.
Windows may not have a structural sill or the sill may not be sufficiently weather resistant. In these cases, a strip of waterproof and weather resistant material (steel, vinyl, PVC) called a sill pan may be used to protect the wall and shed the water. Like the sill, a sill pan will usually be inclined and protrude from the wall.
written windowsill or window-sill, and less frequently in British English, cill) is the horizontal structure or surface at the bottom of a window. Window sills...
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the window fixing weatherproof but allows for expansion due to heat. Lintel is a beam over the top of a window, also known as a transom. Windowsill is...
below the sill of a window. It may also be used for growing herbs or other edible plants. A window box is usually placed on a windowsill, or fixed to...
temperature requirement, but he did happen to store the solution on a windowsill over night and the cold Paris air activated it. Pasteur and his assistants...
the windows, doors, interior finish, exterior sheathing or siding, insulation and utilities and help give shape to a building. Studs run from sill plate...
(usually) the floor platform of a building for dimensions such as windowsill heights, window top heights (or headers), exterior door heights (or headers)...
sole plate or sill plate are used for the members at the bottom of a wall at the foundation but are most often just called a sole or sill without the word...
the two jambs. Sill (for exterior doors) – A horizontal sill plate below the door that supports the door frame. Similar to a WindowSill but for a door...
school. Flynn's peaceful protest, which included him protesting on a windowsill in his Dublin City Council office, was criticised by some as "attention...
pompier meaning firefighter) is a type of ladder that can be attached to a windowsill or similar ledge by the use of a hooked extending bill with serrations...
distinctively-colored towel from a balcony, or placing a potted plant on a windowsill where it is visible to anyone on the street. While the dead drop method...
called a string course or sill course, is a continuous row or layer of stones or brick set in a wall. Set in line with windowsills, it helps to make the...
that can extend or angle themselves to reach an entry point such as a windowsill or balcony, are often used in this capacity. Firnhaber-Baker, Justine...
and window-pane It drummed a homely tune. And through the night it pattered still, And lightsome, gladsome elves On dripping spout and window-sill Kept...
Independent. Retrieved 24 January 2018. "Banksy- Britain: lover hanging on a windowsill". The Guardian. 17 September 2006. Retrieved 19 January 2018. Moran,...
after hour. He was reported to have frequently left a few fish on the window-sill of some poor body. In previous publications, Saxby spelled the word as...
Energy. Retrieved 18 October 2023. "Room-size Air Conditioner Fits Under WindowSill". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Magazines. June 1935. pp. 885–. ISSN 0032-4558...
the wall. Similar marks of overlapping circles have been found on a windowsill dated about 1616 at Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire, as well as taper...
food, he is killed by a bear-shaped marble clock that falls from Vera's windowsill. Vera and Lombard find Armstrong's body washed up on the beach, and each...
2021. Retrieved May 12, 2021. "Room-size air conditioner fits under windowsill". Popular Mechanics. Vol. 63, no. 6. June 1935. p. 885. ISSN 0032-4558...
overheard two Zulu workers comment that it was strange to see milk on the windowsill (left out to ferment) because whites seldom drank amasi. Amasi is also...
that the president has just been shot. Corrigan pounds his fist on a windowsill angry that no one listened and finds he is back in 1961 at the Potomac...
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