Window Replacement in Litchfield, ME

Vinyl window replacement suits a Litchfield camp on Pleasant Pond, Woodbury Pond or Upper Pond that is becoming a year-round house, and the many houses in town from the 1980s and 1990s. A vinyl frame needs no paint, which counts on a camp whose owners come up mostly on weekends.

Where a camp still has single-pane windows, they give up heat fast in a Litchfield January, and a vinyl unit with low-E glass, a thin coating that holds heat in, is the plain fix. Where a camp opening was framed loose or out of square, we go full-frame and pan the sill.

Wood window replacement fits the older Litchfield houses, the 11.0 percent of town housing from 1939 or earlier, where a wrong-sized window shows from the road. The Land Use Ordinance names clapboards, shingles, patterned shingles and brick as the town's facade materials.

Section 8.17 asks window and door proportions on pre-1970 buildings to stay compatible with the style and the neighbors when the Planning Board reviews a project. Our advice on those houses is to keep the old opening sizes and pane pattern, and a wood-clad window ordered to size does both.

Entry door replacement on a Litchfield camp being readied for winter usually starts at the threshold, where wet boots and pond weather soften the wood. Light showing along the edges of a camp door is the other sign that it is time for a new one.

When the threshold is soft we replace the whole prehung unit and bed it on a sill pan. On a lot within 250 feet of the water, we clear the job with the code office first.