Window replacement costs in Scranton

NOAA's normals for the airport station in Avoca put the average January low a little above 20°F. The low drops to 32°F or colder on about 124 nights in a typical year, and about 189 days are cloudy. That's a long heating season to spend behind tired glass.

Inside the city, the paperwork is light for a straight swap. Scranton's construction permit page says you can get a permit to change the existing windows and doors in a home without paying a fee. Moving a window or door to a new spot counts as construction, and that permit does carry a fee. In the Downtown Scranton Historic District, the Historic Architecture Review Board has to grant a Certificate of Appropriateness before exterior work goes ahead.

Outside the city, it depends on where you live. Pennsylvania lets a municipality opt out of enforcing the state construction code, and a handful in Luzerne County have, including Ross, Slocum and Union townships. In an opt-out township, the state says residential code enforcement falls to a certified third-party agency that the property owner hires.

In the city itself, half the homes were built by 1938, per Census data. Across the metro, half were built by 1959.