Scope of Work
A sunroom on the garden side of a private house in the Morristown suburbs was renovated as a year-round room: fieldstone walls, a wood-plank ceiling with fans, a travertine terrace outside, and new glass on every side. Alex GC supplied and installed the glazing from our own aluminium window and door line: a three-lite swing-out casement window set in the stone wall, a run of sliding doors along the terrace, and a four-panel bifold door under the overhang at the end of the room. Every unit is black inside and out, glazed with low-E insulated glass, and fitted with a mosquito screen, so the room is sealed in winter and open to the garden in summer without letting the insects in.
Three openings, three ways of opening
The room needed three different things from its glass, and got three different products in the same frame colour and sightline. The window in the stone wall is a three-lite unit with swing-out casement sashes: the sashes press against the frame on four sides when closed, so the wall that faces the weather seals like a fixed lite, and open fully for cross-ventilation on a summer evening. The long terrace wall got sliding doors, which take no swing space on either side and let the whole wall read as glass between the stone piers. The end wall, under the overhang, got a four-panel bifold that folds flat to one side and turns the sunroom into an open pavilion facing the deck.
Setting aluminium into stone
Every opening here is masonry: fieldstone walls with a stone sill, and stone piers between the sliding doors. A stone opening is never square, so each unit was made to a survey with a tolerance for the jambs, set on a flashed sill and sealed to the stone with backer rod and a black neutral-cure silicone that disappears against the frame. The window sits back from the face of the stone so the outer stone returns to the frame; the doors sit on the terrace level, with a threshold that drains outward across the travertine.
Low-E glass and screens
All the glass is low-E insulated, which is what turns a sunroom from a three-season porch into a room that holds its heat in January: the coating reflects the room’s warmth back inside and keeps the summer sun’s heat out, without a visible tint. Mosquito screens sit on the inside of the casements and on the sliding and bifold doors, so every opening that operates can be left open at dusk. See low-E glass and casement windows.
Our own line, and why it fits here
These units are from the aluminium line we fabricate and supply under our own name rather than a European or American brand: thermally broken aluminium profiles, multipoint locking on the casements, rollers and multipoint locks on the sliders, and top-hung bifold hardware, with low-E glass as standard. On a sunroom renovation it gives the owner the look of a black European window wall at a price that fits a single-room project, with the same installation, flashing and warranty we give every line. Which of our product lines suits a job is a conversation we have at the survey.
Working in Morris County
Residential glazing in Morris County goes through the township building department rather than the New York DOB; we prepared the filing with the shop drawings and scheduled the installation in one visit, with the crew and the units coming out from Staten Island. We supply and install across Northern New Jersey — Morristown, Madison, Chatham, Summit, the Short Hills and Bernardsville houses — and aluminium windows in New Jersey describes how we work in the state.
Photographs
Photographed at completion: the casement window from the room and from the terrace, the run of sliding doors on the stone piers, and the bifold door under the overhang.
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Planning Something Similar?
Renovating a sunroom, porch or garden room in New Jersey? Send photographs of the openings with rough sizes and we will propose windows and doors from the line that fits the budget, with low-E glass and screens, and quote supply and installation.