Window replacement costs in Fort Wayne

Winter is the main test for a Fort Wayne window. At the airport, about 124 nights in a normal year fall to 32 degrees or lower. On roughly 40 days the thermometer never climbs past freezing, and about 19 nights reach 10 degrees or colder. Snow adds up to about 34 inches a season.

On nights like that, the inside face of the glass is the coldest surface in the room. Warm, damp indoor air condenses there first, which is why single-pane glass sweats or frosts over on the coldest mornings. A sound insulated unit keeps its inside surface warmer, so it fogs less at the same indoor humidity. If your windows run with water on the coldest mornings, try a bath fan or a lower humidifier setting before you blame the glass. If the fog is trapped between the panes, though, the seal has failed, and that's a replacement.

Fort Wayne's houses split by age. The city's median home dates to 1971, and over 60 percent of its houses are older than 1980. Newer houses sit mostly outside the city: a quarter of the metro's homes are from 2000 or later, against about one in seven inside Fort Wayne.