Repairs, hardware and reglazing for managed portfolios
Not every window problem needs a replacement window. A large share of the calls we take turn out to be hardware, adjustment or a failed sealed unit — all repairable at a fraction of replacement cost.
For managing agents and boards with a portfolio of buildings, having one contractor who handles the small repairs as well as the capital work means faster response and consistent detailing.
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The sealed unit does, but usually not the whole window. Fogging between panes means the seal has failed. In a sound frame the insulated unit can be replaced on its own at a fraction of full replacement cost.
Often not. Sticking, binding and failure to seal are frequently hardware or adjustment problems — worn sash balances, failed operators or compressed weatherstripping — all repairable.
Yes. For portfolios, having one contractor for both small repairs and capital work means faster response and consistent detailing across buildings.
Yes. We diagnose before quoting. A large share of the calls we take turn out to be repairable, and we would rather say so.
The commercial incentive in this trade points toward replacement, because replacement is the bigger order. We would rather tell you when repair does the job, because a building that trusts the assessment comes back.
A building may need a hundred new locks and only forty windows genuinely rebuilt. Working out which is which is what a survey is for, and it usually saves considerably more than the survey costs.
Sashes that will not stay up or will not lock. Almost always balances rather than the window. When a balance fails the sash drops, the meeting rails fall out of line and the lock no longer engages. Replacing the lock will not fix it; replacing the balance will.
Draughts. Usually perished weatherstripping or a worn cam lock that no longer pulls the sashes together. Both are inexpensive. People replace whole windows over a draught a twelve-dollar lock would have fixed.
Stiff sliding windows and doors. Normally a track full of grit acting as an abrasive, or rollers at the end of their life. Cleaning the track first is free.
Water at the sill. Frequently blocked weep holes rather than a failed window. Weeps take a minute a year to clear and prevent most of the failures we get called to.
Failed sealed units. Condensation inside the cavity means the seal has gone. The unit is replaced; the frame and sash usually are not.
Rotten or corroded frames. Units where the frame is non-thermally-broken aluminium and the complaint is condensation — that is the frame conducting cold straight through and no repair changes it. Openings where the existing window cannot satisfy a ventilation or egress requirement. And windows where parts are genuinely obsolete and no adaptation is available.
We will tell you which category you are in, and we will tell you when the honest answer is that the problem is not the window at all — a balcony falling the wrong way, a blocked outlet, a failed perimeter detail directing water into the wall.
Broken glass gets made safe and secure the same day: board-up, glass removed, opening weathertight. The permanent replacement follows once the correct unit is fabricated, because tempered and laminated glass is made to size and cannot be cut afterwards.
For managed buildings, scheduled inspection catches the cheap problems before they become expensive ones. Clearing drainage, renewing perimeter sealant before it fails, adjusting hardware and replacing weatherstripping are all low-cost items that prevent water damage and failed units.
The single most valuable habit on any building: clear the weep holes annually. It costs almost nothing and prevents standing water in tracks and sills, which is what freezes, works into frames and fails sealed units.
These describe the kind of work each area brings rather than any specific client project.
Pre-war apartment stock — the Bronx, upper Manhattan, Ocean Avenue, Flatbush. Balance and lock work at volume, with the survey identifying window patterns rather than counting openings.
Post-war sliders — Staten Island, Bayside, Canarsie, Mill Basin. Rollers, tracks and drainage, plus the frequent finding that condensation blamed on failed units is actually a non-thermally-broken aluminium frame.
Coastal — the Rockaways, Manhattan Beach, the South Shore, the Shore. Salt seizes fasteners and corrodes plated hardware. Stainless replacements and more frequent inspection.
Retail frontage — Flatbush, Coney Island Avenue, Astoria. Entrance door hardware at high cycle counts, where closers and pivots are the recurring items.
High-rise — Long Island City, Downtown Brooklyn, the Hudson waterfront. Balcony door thresholds, perimeter sealant and hardware on doors taking severe wind exposure.
Tell us what is happening and when. We repair and maintain across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, and throughout Northern New Jersey, the Jersey Shore, Philadelphia and the Lehigh Valley.
Tell us about the opening and we will specify it for you.
