Window Replacement in Belgrade, ME

Vinyl window replacement is what we most often put in the lakeside camps that grew out of Belgrade's resort years, after the railroad brought summer visitors and lakeside cottages to its shores.

When a Belgrade camp frame has held its shape and the sill is firm, an insert goes in, keeping the old trim at the cost of a little glass. A frame racked with its camp, or a sill soaked by ice dams off a low roof, comes out to the rough opening, the studs and header with nothing between them, so a pan can go in.

Wood window replacement fits the 15.6 percent of Belgrade housing from 1939 or earlier, the era of The Birches, a 1916 house in Belgrade Lakes designed by John Calvin Stevens with John Howard Stevens, tied to the Belgrade Hotel that burned in 1955.

On a Belgrade lake house that old, the pane pattern is usually the first thing an owner asks us to keep. A wood-clad unit ordered with simulated divided lites, the grid bonded onto the glass inside and out, keeps it.

Entry door replacement on a Belgrade camp usually starts at the threshold, the strip under the door, which takes snowmelt and spring rain for months with no one home to notice.

A dry threshold in a square frame can take a new slab. Once the threshold or the subfloor beneath it has gone soft, the answer on a Belgrade camp is a prehung door, slab and jamb arriving as one unit, bedded on a pan at the bottom of the opening.