Covington Window Replacement provides professional french doors in Covington, KY for residential and commercial properties across Northern Kentucky's river cities. 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. In-swing costs you floor area, and it keeps the weatherstripping in compression on the correct side, which matters more here than the floor space does. Measure that arc on the floor with a tape before you fall in love with the idea.
Out-swing has one real advantage worth knowing about. Wind pressure presses the panels into their seals rather than pulling them away, so on an exposed rear elevation up on the hillside it performs better, provided you have the outside room to give it. It is also easier to weatherstrip well, because the seal sits on the face the wind is pressing against.
The active-and-inactive arrangement is where leaks appear. Flush bolts at head and sill are all that hold the inactive leaf, and where the head strike was drilled too shallow that leaf works loose in wind and the astragal stops sealing along its length. We set both bolts into properly drilled and lined strikes rather than into a dimple punched in the sill.
In a masonry opening a pair of doors is heavy and wide, and the head is the constraint. The segmental arch over an original opening carries its load in compression, so widening a rear opening for French doors is a lintel job before it is a door job. That is structural work and we treat it as structural work. We would rather bring an engineer in than guess at a header over a rear opening.
Safety glazing is not optional in a door, and it is not optional beside one either. Glass in the leaves, and glass in sidelights within the specified distance of the door edge, has to be tempered or laminated. That requirement catches a surprising number of homeowners who rebuilt an opening themselves and ordered glass by appearance. The permanent etched mark in the corner of the pane is how an inspector confirms it.
For a rear elevation with a view down the Ohio valley — and a good many Covington houses on the hillside have exactly that — French doors with a low-profile sill and full-height glass are the best thing you can do to a back room. We are genuinely enthusiastic about that job. A low sill also keeps the step out to a deck usable for anyone who would rather not climb.
Where we are not enthusiastic is a pair of French doors on a front elevation standing at the sidewalk. Two leaves opening onto a public footpath is a hazard, an out-swing there is not something we will build, and an in-swinging pair swallows most of a narrow front room to no purpose.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — three-wythe soft-brick reveal holding the window buck, segmental arch head laid over a rough wooden lintel, cast-iron counterweights lifted out through the pulley stile, dense-pack cellulose blown into an emptied weight pocket, pultruded fiberglass frame bedded on closed-cell backer rod, hemmed aluminum panning wrapped over a limestone sill — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Covington and nearby communities including Newport, Fort Thomas, Bellevue, Dayton.
What We Handle
Everything our french doors in Covington covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of french doors work in Covington, KY. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- french doors Covington
- double door replacement
- inswing french doors
- 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
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Covington services.
Materials, equipment and how we do french doors
The difference between french doors that lasts and french doors that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with three-wythe soft-brick reveal holding the window buck, segmental arch head laid over a rough wooden lintel, cast-iron counterweights lifted out through the pulley stile, dense-pack cellulose blown into an emptied weight pocket, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Covington job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of window work in Northern Kentucky's river cities means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do french doors outside Covington
Covington Window Replacement covers Covington and the surrounding communities of Northern Kentucky's river cities. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- French Doors in Newport, KY — Campbell County, population 14,150 at the 2020 census
- French Doors in Fort Thomas, KY — Campbell County, population 17,438 at the 2020 census
- French Doors in Bellevue, KY — Campbell County, population 5,548 at the 2020 census
- French Doors in Dayton, KY — Campbell County, population 5,666 at the 2020 census
- French Doors in Southgate, KY — Campbell County, population 3,648 at the 2020 census
- French Doors in Wilder, KY — Campbell County, population 3,176 at the 2020 census
Start on the Covington Window Replacement homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Covington Chooses Covington Window Replacement
- ✓We price the opening, not the house. Openings that do not need work come off the list with a reason written next to them, and the total drops instead of quietly rounding up.
- ✓We will quote sash repair against replacement on the same visit. Re-glazing, new cord over the original weights and bronze weatherstrip is a real product here, not a stalling tactic to get a bigger sale later.
- ✓Every unit going into a masonry opening is specified by its printed performance grade and its actual frame depth against your reveal, because a stock depth that works in a framed wall will float in thirteen inches of brick.
- ✓We fill the weight pockets while the jamb is open. It takes twenty minutes an opening and it is the single largest air leak in most Covington houses, and nobody ever comes back to do it later.
The standards behind french doors
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The french doors work we do in Covington follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every french doors project in Covington gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free french doors free estimate in Covington, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.