Highlands Whole-Home Window Replacement

Doing the whole house at once

Replacing windows a few at a time is how most houses end up with three generations of frame on four elevations. Doing them in one run costs less per opening, because the setup, the disposal and the trip charges happen once instead of five times, and it means every window in the house opens the same way and seals the same way.

It also means the elevations match. The front of this house carries a pair of three-section units with the shutters left in place; the deck and walkout sides carry sliders. Different openings, same frame, same colour, fitted in the same week.

What happens at each opening

The old unit comes out, the opening gets checked for square and for any rot that was hiding under the trim, and the new frame is shimmed and fastened rather than held in place with foam. Then it is flashed and sealed, and the exterior trim goes back.

None of that is visible in these photographs, which is the point — on a window job the parts you can photograph are the parts that were never going to be the problem.