Expert Windows in Somerville, Massachusetts

You get lifetime glass and frame coverage from the manufacturer, plus our 5-year workmanship warranty. Both are in writing at handover. The workmanship warranty is ours, not a third party's, and it is the one that actually gets used.

The three we see most often here: out-of-square openings in older homes, where a stock unit will never seal properly; rotted sills under windows that were flashed poorly the first time; and original single-pane sashes with failed glazing putty and no weatherstripping left. Locally, aging clapboard siding comes up repeatedly on colonial revivals.

Sometimes. On a colonial revivals we can often match a single elevation closely enough that it reads as original. Where the existing material has faded past matching, we will say so rather than sell you a repair you will be unhappy with.

All of it, including North Somerville, East Somerville, West Somerville and the rest of ZIP 02143. We also work throughout Middlesex County.

You see it before we cover it. The rate for hidden damage is written into the contract up front, precisely so nobody is negotiating while the house is open.

Plan on one day per eight to ten openings once the units are on site. Middlesex County weather does move schedules — wet spring seasons followed by dry, hot stretches that move wood trim is the usual reason — so we build a weather margin into the date we give you rather than promising one we cannot hold.