Window replacement costs in Cincinnati

Cincinnati's metro crosses the Ohio River into Kentucky and reaches into Indiana, and each state sets its own energy rules for new windows. Ohio's residential code is built on the 2018 IECC and has been in force since 2019. Kentucky's is built on the older 2009 edition, in force since 2014. Indiana's starts from the 2018 edition, but the Energy Department rates its amended version as equal to the 2009 model. So the minimum a new window has to meet depends on which side of a state line your house is on.

The weather doesn't change at the bridge. The federal climate list puts Hamilton County and Kenton County across the river in zone 4, the mixed-humid zone, while Franklin and Cuyahoga counties to the north sit in the colder zone 5. At the airport in Northern Kentucky, about 22 days a year top 90 degrees, and about 100 nights dip to freezing or lower. You're buying a window for both seasons, so ask how well the glass blocks summer sun, not just how well it holds in heat.

The houses are old enough for this to matter. Inside the city, three in four homes were built before 1980 and more than half before 1960.