Window Replacement in Windsor, ME

Vinyl window replacement is what we usually recommend for a Windsor house built near the town's 1986 median, where the first double-hungs have fogged, rattle in a north wind or will not stay up. A vinyl frame never needs paint, and a still-square opening lets an insert save the trim.

Where an ice dam has fed water into a Windsor wall, the sill tells us at the visit. A sill that gives under the awl means full-frame, out to the rough opening, so the rot gets cut out and a pan goes in before the new window does.

Wood window replacement suits Windsor's oldest housing, the 12.0 percent dating to 1939 or before, in a place first incorporated as Malta in 1809. A wood-clad window keeps a paintable wood face toward the room and sheds weather with a clad exterior.

We order it to the pane pattern the Windsor house shows now, six-over-six or two-over-two, and go full-frame when the sill gives under the awl. If an old sash is sound, we will tell you so rather than sell you a window you do not need.

Entry door replacement in Windsor usually comes down to the threshold: a hard one lets a new slab hang in the old jambs, and a soft one calls for a new prehung door. Either way the frame gets checked for square at the visit, because a door hung in a racked frame binds no matter how new it is.

Any glass in the door, and a sidelight within 24 inches of its edge, has to be safety glass under the Maine-adopted code. A new Windsor threshold gets bedded over a sill pan, so water that slips past the sweep drains back out.