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(978) 354-5544Whole House Window Replacement on a Beverly Cape
Every opening in the house, dormers included. The dormers are the ones most quotes quietly leave out.
Project managed by
Alex D., Seaside - 5.0 Google (29 reviews)
- Marvin & Andersen Certified
- Licensed & Insured
- Serving the North Shore since 2014
This is the most common house on the North Shore and the most commonly half finished window job. A post war Cape has a simple front, two windows and a door, and then two dormer windows upstairs that are smaller, higher, and more awkward to reach. Plenty of quotes handle the first three and find a reason to skip the last two.
The challenge
The dormers are where the heat actually goes
A dormer window sits at the top of the house, which is where warm air collects and where it leaves. It is also a smaller opening in a shallower wall, often with less insulation around it than anything downstairs. Leaving two dormers on original single pane while replacing everything beneath them gives you a house that is better and still cold in the one room the kids sleep in. Reaching them means staging, which is why they get skipped.
How Seaside solved it
Price the house, not the easy openings
We quoted every opening in the house as one job, dormers at the same unit price as the ground floor, so there was no incentive for anybody to find a reason to leave them. Each window went in and got closed up before we moved to the next, which is how a whole house gets done in a day without anything sitting open.
The work
A closer look at the project
The result
The upstairs is now the same temperature as downstairs
That sentence is the whole review. Before the job the second floor ran cold enough that the family avoided it in January.
From the street the change is subtle and that is correct. The window shapes are the ones the house was built with, the grids are gone where they were never original, and the proportions are the Cape's own. A window job that announces itself has usually gone wrong.
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A local Beverly team. We quote every opening, dormers included.