[MassHistPres] windows

[Marc Cleary]

Correct, anything you do get from them would need to be painted and
installed (if wood on either side)

I know it is hard to find someone to do a job like this.

 

Marc Cleary

Cleary and Son, Inc.

Office 781-893-0723

Fax 781-894-5672

1-800-893-0728

 <http://www.clearywindowrestoration.com> www.clearywindowrestoration.com

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From: masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu
[mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of Marcia Starkey
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:23 AM
To: Dennis De Witt; MassHistPres
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] windows

 

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 <mailto:djd184 at verizon.net>  

To: MassHistPres <mailto:masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>  

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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