Window Replacement in Chelsea, ME

Vinyl window replacement is the usual answer on Chelsea houses built from the 1980s on, where the windows are plain double-hungs and nobody wants to paint a sash again. The median Chelsea house dates from 1982, so plenty of these openings still hold the windows the builder put in.

Where a Chelsea frame of that era is still square and dry, an insert (a complete new window sized to sit within the existing frame) leaves the inside trim alone. A soft sill moves the job to full-frame, out to the rough opening, which is the framed hole in the wall.

Wood window replacement suits Chelsea's oldest housing, the 15.9 percent from 1939 or earlier, where the old pane pattern still sets the look of each wall. A wood-clad window keeps real wood toward the room and puts aluminum, vinyl or fiberglass cladding toward the weather.

We order each one to match the grille layout already on the house, two-over-two or six-over-six. Good paint can hide a soft sill on a Chelsea house this age, so the awl decides, and full-frame gets priced wherever it sinks in.

Entry door replacement comes up in Chelsea when daylight shows under the door or the threshold gives underfoot. The old door stays hung until the new one is ready to set, so a lived-in Chelsea house is never left open to the cold.

If the jambs are solid, a new slab can hang in the frame Chelsea builders set decades ago. A threshold that flexes underfoot calls for a prehung door, meaning a slab already hung in its own new frame and sill, bedded over a sill pan.