Window replacement costs in Hartford

Hartford's windows work both ends of the thermometer. NOAA's climate summary for Connecticut counts about 13 days a year above 90 degrees at Hartford's Brainard Field, the most of the three spots it compares, and about 2 days below zero. Your windows face a hot July and a hard January in the same year, so how well each frame is sealed into the wall matters, not just the glass.

If your house is historic, the city's preservation guidelines start from repair. They say to survey the windows and doors, identify their style, and replace only when repair isn't possible. A replacement should match the old one's dimensions and profiles as closely as it can, down to the stiles, rails and muntins, and the guidelines say that holds whatever the new window is made of. Applied muntin grids may be acceptable. Swapping easily repairable wood windows for metal or vinyl, wrapping the trim in metal or vinyl, and changing the size of an opening are on the not-recommended list.

Storm windows get their own page. Wood storms can be built to match the sash behind them. Metal ones usually come as one-over-one, which the guidelines call wrong for a house built before 1850. On an arched window, have the storm made to fit rather than filling the curve above a stock unit with wood or metal.

Old houses are common here. About two in three homes in the Hartford metro were built before 1980.