Window Replacement in West Gardiner, ME

Vinyl window replacement is the common fit in West Gardiner, where the median house dates from 1987 and 13.5 percent of the housing went up in 2010 or later. A vinyl insert set into a frame that is still square and hard leaves the casing and the siding around it untouched.

When a sash won't stay up on a window this age, the culprit is often a worn balance, the spring that holds the sash where you leave it. The new unit replaces the balance and the fogged glass together, and a frame that has racked out of square goes full-frame instead.

Wood window replacement is the call for the handful of West Gardiner houses that predate 1940, 5.9 percent of the town's housing by the latest estimate. Wood-clad means a wood sash and frame on the inside wrapped in a weather-facing skin, so the old pane pattern stays and the outside never needs scraping.

The room side of a wood window needs paint or stain soon after it goes in, so we settle who does that before the order is placed.

Entry door replacement on a West Gardiner house of the 1980s can mean a steel door whose skin has dented or rusted along the bottom, or a sweep worn thin enough to show light under the door.

With solid jambs and a hard threshold, a West Gardiner door can take a new slab in its old opening. With a soft threshold, the whole prehung assembly is replaced and the new door is bedded over a sill pan.