Window replacement costs in Lexington

Lexington winters are long. The Bluegrass airport sees about 90 freezing nights in a normal year, about 18 days when the high stays at or below freezing, and about 14.5 inches of snow.

That makes heat loss the main event for a window here. On the NFRC label, that's the U-factor, the rating built around heat getting out. On a Lexington house, it does more work than the sun-control rating, because summers are milder: about 25 days a year reach 90°F.

Cold also shows up on the glass. On a frosty morning, warm, damp room air hits a cold pane and condenses. Water that runs down onto a wood sill winter after winter ends up rotting it. If your sills are dark and soft under old windows, plan for that repair as part of the replacement.

The housing has range. Close to four in ten Lexington-area houses are older than 1980, with roughly one in six older than 1960. An older house with original single-pane windows notices the change the first cold night, and a newer one with failed double-pane seals gets its view back.