The challenge, the home was built in the 1960’s out of concrete blocks and exterior stucco. To use standard size windows from a big box store or home town lumber yards, it would require a complete re-fame, re-stucco, re-plaster and finally re-painting the entire living room.

Another challenge, the home is on the edge of town, faces north with nothing to stop those north by north west winds. The old

windows were single pane glass with aluminum storm windows allowing air infiltration and only single pane glass to stop the cold from generating in from the outside.

Midwest Construction gave the homeowners an opportunity to not only change the appearance of the home by installing new replacement windows, it also gave them the opportunity to choose the glass pack options to improve the energy efficiency of their home.

Midwest Construction installed custom built Uniframe replacement windows with R-Core insulated main and sash frames to deliver up to R-22 on the master frame alone. The glass packs feature, Triple Glazed Maxuus Glass System, the ultimate energy savings systems with triple pane combining two panes of multilayered vacuum-deposition Low-E insulating glass with an interior glass substrate and two insulated chambers of Krypton gas. The result is an insulating glass unit that is ten times more energy efficient than what they previously had in their home.

The windows were custom built to fit into the existing header, jambs and sills. This allowed Midwest Construction to properly remove the existing storm windows and interior sashes, inspect the exterior sills and casing for rot and replace if and where needed with new lumber. Once the opening was prepped, the installers set the window into the existing jamb on a bed of fiberglass insulation. Once the window was plum and level the installers fastened the window with factory provided fasteners, insulate around the window and old frame work, and used our water management techniques to insulate and seal the new window opening.

The exterior sills and casings were trimmed out with custom bent PVC aluminum coils stock with brake buddy brick mold style.

Custom built, energy efficient, tilt in for safe and easy cleaning, that’s Uniframe custom built replacement windows installed by: Midwest Construction the 2015 Better Business Bureau Integrity Award Winners!