[MassHistPres] windows

[Marcia Starkey]

Re" window sash or sash/frames: Is it always true that installation is not warranteed?

Marcia Starkey, Greenfield HC
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  From: Dennis De Witt 
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] windows


  Replacement typically means the cost of a new sash.  You can bet that the manufacturer will charge you more for the replacement sash than the original cost for that sash as part of a new window because you've go nowhere else to go.


  Failures can start at 15 years and few warrantees are more than 20 years and are limited in various ways -- like roof and tire warrantees.  In my experience 10 year warranteed water heaters fail like clockwork after about 7 years.  My plumber confirms that.  The replacement one is never warrenteed.  


  90% of the installed organically sealed IG is less than 25 years old.  For budgetary purposes, I'd assume a 30 year life for good units, 15 years for cheap ones.


  Shockingly here is something picked up at random from a local maker of replacement IG units in Maine.


  "Typical life expectancy for an insulated unit is between five and ten year depending greatly on the window design."



  Even I don't find that reasonable but that may be all you can expect with the unit not being factory installed in the sash.


  Dennis De Witt






  On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Suzanne W Pelton wrote:


    Can someone supply information on the life expectancy of  replacement windows? Or the repair costs when the insulation seal between the two panes of glass ruptures?
    Suzanne Pelton
    Lenox Historical Commission


    On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Marcia Starkey wrote:


      Hello,

      A breakthru seems possible with the current cover story on "Fine Homebuilding" saying that repair is more advantageous than replacement. 

      Marcia Starkey, Greenfield HC
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