Window Replacement in Old Town, ME

Vinyl window replacement is the practical choice for many of Old Town's post-war houses, on Marsh Island and on the streets laid out as the city grew around the mill. A vinyl double-hung is the lowest-cost frame in the catalog, and it needs no paint.

When a plaster wall meets January air, moist indoor air can bead up on a cold pane. A sealed, insulated unit with a low U-factor (lower keeps more heat inside) keeps the inner pane warmer, though no window promises an end to condensation.

Wood window replacement fits the 36.4 percent of Old Town's homes built by 1939, from the cottages near the old mill to the houses along Center Street near St. James Episcopal Church.

On houses of that age the independent installer matches the old pane pattern in wood-clad sash, the way the grid of lights was set in the original frame.

The wood side of a wood-clad window still needs its finish kept up, because a manufacturer's warranty does not cover damage from exposed wood that was never properly treated and sealed. The installer tells you which faces need paint or stain after the unit is set.

Entry door replacement in Old Town faces wind that crosses the Penobscot and the Stillwater before it reaches the step, and a spongy threshold tells the story. A prehung door, sold as door slab already hung in its frame with a sill in one piece, is the usual answer wherever the old sill has gone soft.

Where the threshold is still sound, a new slab is fit to the old frame. Either way a pan goes under the sill and tape ties it into the wall, so water at the step drains outside.