Every Window Service We Offer in Covington, KY

The largest heat loss in a Covington brick house is usually not the glass. It is the pair of empty weight pockets flanking every original double-hung, open behind the jamb to air that never stops moving. Those pockets held cast-iron counterweights on cotton cord.

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• warm edge spacer windows
• draft sealing old windows
• weight pocket insulation
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• triple pane windows
• storm window alternative
• air sealing window jambs
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• winter drafts windows
• solar heat gain coefficient
• insulated replacement windows
• utility bill window upgrade

Energy-Efficient Window Replacement in Covington, KY

Vinyl is the value default almost everywhere, and in Covington it is the right answer in roughly half the openings we look at. The half where it is wrong are the tall ones on the front wall, and the reason is thermal movement. Rigid PVC expands and contracts several times as much as the brick holding it.

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• dark color vinyl frames
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• rear addition windows
• vinyl window reinforcement
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• Fibrex composite windows
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• vinyl casement windows

Vinyl Windows in Covington, KY

Pultruded fiberglass is the material that matches this city's walls. Its expansion coefficient sits close to glass and close to masonry, so the joint between frame and brick is asked to absorb almost nothing. That is not a small detail in Covington.

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• historic district windows
• tall narrow window replacement
• low expansion window frame
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• fiberglass casement
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Fiberglass Windows in Covington, KY

Aluminum-clad wood is what we specify when the outside has to look right and the inside has to feel like the house it belongs to. Inside a historic overlay, that combination is often what separates a review that goes smoothly from one that sends you back to redraw.

The clad exterior can be ordered in profiles that read close to an original: a putty-glaze contour at the glass, a proper nosing on the sill, and simulated divided lites made with an internal spacer bar plus applied bars on both faces.

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• stainable window jambs
• putty glaze profile windows
• custom size wood windows
• extruded aluminum cladding
• period correct windows
• certificate of appropriateness windows
• wood window replacement
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Clad Wood Windows in Covington, KY

Aluminum in a Covington winter needs a thermal break, and that is not a preference. Uninterrupted aluminum in a heated room at this latitude runs wet along the frame most cold mornings, and the water finds the sill and the plaster underneath it. The break is a poured-and-debridged polyurethane, or a structural polyamide strut set between the inside half of the extrusion and the outside half.

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• polyamide strut frame
• slim sightline aluminum windows
• commercial aluminum windows
• anodized window finish
• fluoropolymer coating windows
• industrial window replacement
• loft window replacement
• aluminum condensation
• large span windows
• mixed use building windows
• warehouse window replacement
• aluminum frame durability
• rust jacking steel windows

Thermally Broken Aluminum Windows in Covington, KY

The double-hung is the native window of this city. Nearly every pre-1940 Covington house was built with them, hung on cotton cord over cast-iron weights, and most of those cords parted somewhere between the Truman administration and now. That leaves three honest options, and we quote whichever one the opening actually calls for.

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• sash cord replacement
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• pocket insert windows
• full frame window replacement
• block and tackle balance
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• old sash repair
• rope and pulley windows
• historic double hung
• sash weight removal
• window balance replacement
• glazing putty repair
• wood sash restoration
• two over two sash

Double-Hung Windows in Covington, KY

A casement swings out. On a Covington street facade the wall stands on the property line and the sidewalk starts at the face of the brick, so a sash opening outward at head height over a public walkway is a problem before it is ever a product. That is not a technicality we invented to avoid the work.

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• kitchen sink window
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• casement operator hardware
• side hinged windows
• egress casement window
• rear elevation windows
• areaway window replacement
• air infiltration casement
• interior screen casement
• top hinged awning
• vent window under picture window
• casement window repair

Casement & Awning Windows in Covington, KY

Horizontal sliders are the wrong shape for most of Covington. The openings in this housing stock run tall and narrow, and a slider divides the width you do not have while leaving the height it cannot use. Put a two-panel slider into a thirty-by-sixty-eight reveal and you get two panes about fifteen inches wide and nearly six feet tall, one of which never moves.

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• gliding window replacement
• basement slider window
• ranch house windows
• two panel slider
• window track drainage
• slider window rollers
• wide short window replacement
• garden level windows
• low maintenance windows
• slider egress opening
• vinyl slider windows
• aluminum slider replacement
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• sliding window repair

Sliding Windows in Covington, KY

This is the page where we mostly say no. On a Covington street facade a bay or bow window is not something we will build, and the reason has nothing to do with how hard it would be. It is where the wall stands.

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• window seat build out
• rear elevation bay window
• bay window roof flashing
• projecting window right of way
• deep window sill reveal
• bay window support brackets
• garden window replacement
• bay window insulation
• bow window rear addition
• picture window alternative
• interior window seat
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• knee bracket support
• bay window condensation

Bay & Bow Windows in Covington, KY

Covington openings have heads that are not straight. Segmental brick arches over a shallow rise, round tops on stair-hall and gable windows, and the occasional half-round light over a door. A rectangle ordered into one of those is obvious from across the street.

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• arched window replacement
• radius head window
• segmental arch window
• round top window
• stair landing window
• fixed pane window
• transom window restoration
• gable end window
• custom shape windows
• heat strengthened glass
• large fixed glass
• three part window
• half round transom
• architectural glass replacement
• template measured windows

Picture & Architectural Windows in Covington, KY

Bedroom egress is where pocket inserts get people into trouble in this city, and the arithmetic is unforgiving. Covington openings run tall and narrow, and an insert takes its width out of the one dimension that had nothing spare. Residential code asks for a net clear opening a person can physically pass through, with a minimum clear width, a minimum clear height, a minimum area and a maximum sill height above the finished floor.

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• escape window replacement
• casement for egress
• window well ladder
• below grade window
• egress sill height
• clear opening width
• basement bedroom legal
• window well drainage
• attic bedroom egress

Egress Windows in Covington, KY

Let us be direct about this one. Kenton County is not in a windborne debris region, hurricanes do not reach Northern Kentucky, and anyone selling hurricane windows for a Covington house is selling a coastal product at a coastal price. The standards behind those units — large missile impact testing, cyclic pressure loading, the whole apparatus — exist for places where a piece of roof tile arrives at your glass at highway speed.

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• acoustic laminated glass
• forced entry resistant windows
• impact resistant glass
• traffic noise windows
• storm damage window replacement
• burglary resistant glazing
• multi point locking windows
• STC rated windows
• safety glazing
• ground floor security
• wind pressure rating windows
• hail damage windows
• asymmetric glass thickness

Laminated & Security Glass in Covington, KY

Patio doors are a back-of-the-house product in Covington, and that is a description rather than a limitation. The front wall meets the sidewalk; the yard, the deck and the parking pad are all behind you. Most of the ones we replace are aluminum sliders from the 1970s and 1980s hung in a rear addition, and most of them have failed identically.

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• sliding door track replacement
• thermally broken patio door
• deck door replacement
• sliding screen door
• patio door sill pan
• tempered patio door glass
• aluminum patio door
• vinyl sliding door
• patio door weatherstripping
• hinged vs sliding patio door
• patio door lock upgrade
• condensation patio door

Patio & Sliding Glass Doors in Covington, KY

French doors get chosen for the look and regretted for the swing. Before anything else we ask one simple question about the opening: which way is this pair going to open, and what is standing inside that arc. In a Covington rear room the answer is usually in-swing, because out-swinging leaves onto a small deck or a stoop where the arc collides with a railing or the top step.

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• outswing french doors
• astragal weatherstripping
• flush bolt strike
• french door sidelights
• rear elevation french doors
• widening a door opening
• lintel for door opening
• tempered glass door
• interior french doors
• french door hardware
• patio french doors
• french door threshold
• divided lite french doors

French Doors in Covington, KY

A Covington front door frequently opens straight onto a stone stoop with the public sidewalk one step below it. That single fact governs the swing, the threshold, the storm door question and the way the whole assembly has to manage water. Swing comes first.

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• door threshold replacement
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• historic front door
• storm door problems
• deadbolt strike reinforcement
• insulated entry door
• door head flashing
• stoop entry door
• transom over front door
• door weatherstripping
• mortise lock repair
• exterior door installation

Entry Doors in Covington, KY

Screens are the cheapest thing we make and the thing people call about most in June. In this city almost none of them are a stock size, because almost none of these openings are either. Original double-hungs took half screens sitting in the lower opening, held by turn buttons or a light track on the blind stop.

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• custom size screens
• solar screen mesh
• pet resistant screen
• no see um mesh
• aluminum screen frame
• casement screen repair
• screen spline replacement
• porch screen panels
• screen door repair
• insect screen mesh
• shade screen west windows
• screen frame corner keys

Window Screens in Covington, KY

A window that has gone cloudy between the panes has not failed as a window. The seal around the insulated unit has failed, and the sash holding it is usually fine, along with its frame and every piece of hardware on it. That distinction is worth real money.

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• broken glass replacement
• glass only replacement
• sash glass repair
• glazing putty restoration
• single pane sash repair
• emergency board up
• tempered glass replacement
• IGU warranty claim
• condensation between panes
• storefront glass repair
• window glass measurement
• setting blocks glazing
• historic glass preservation

Glass Repair & Insulated Units in Covington, KY

Covington's commercial buildings are narrow, old, and built so that the shop front carries nothing at all. The masonry or cast-iron piers on either side carry the floors above; the storefront between them is infill, and knowing that changes how the work gets scoped. It means a storefront can usually be replaced in kind without shoring anything.

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• commercial door glass
• transom restoration storefront
• restaurant window replacement
• office building glazing
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• storefront board up
• aluminum curtain wall repair
• display window glass
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Commercial Storefront Glass in Covington, KY

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Covington and Northern Kentucky's river cities. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.

Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling window work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.

Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.