New Marvin Ultimate Aluminum Clad Double Hung

The new Marvin Ultimate Aluminum Clad Historic Double Hung is here

We are the only showroom in New York City with this new Marvin window, blending a historic aesthetic with durable materials and all the latest window technology. The windows are available in custom sizes, including heights up to 10.5 feet and widths up to 5.5 feet. A narrow check rail maximizes viewable space, while maintaining a historical look, and retractable screens are nearly invisible when not in use.

The extruded aluminum exterior is finished in a commercial-grade paint that is fade-resistant and prevents chalking. Marvin offers 19 colors, but can also custom blend or match any color.

Marvin offers a full range of wood species for the interiors: pine, mixed grain and vertical Douglas fir, cherry, white oak, black walnut, and Honduran mahogany. You can choose from seven factory-applied stains or clear coat. Every piece of wood receives wood conditioning and stain, two clear coats, and is sanded and baked twice to ensure a consistent, durable, and high-quality finish. They also offer white or designer black paint, or primed ready to receive your custom color.

Beyond its good looks, the Ultimate Aluminum Clad windows are also designed to meet or exceed the most stringent coastal codes for impact zone construction. The windows help protect your home against the extreme rain, wind, and salt that nor’easters and hurricanes dole out. All of Marvin’s hurricane-rated options undergo rigorous third-party testing and are certified for energy efficiency, too.

Now your windows can be part of your smart home

This window boasts three special locking mechanisms to make your home safer. The first is the Marvin Window Opening Control Device, which limits window opening to 4” or less when the sash is opened to prevent falls. The device may be disengaged to full opening for cleaning or egress and automatically re-engages when the sash is fully closed.

The second is Marvin’s exclusive auto-lock option, which activates automatically when sashes are closed taking the second-guessing out of your home security.

A Hidden Lock Status Sensor option connects with your smart home to indicate when windows are closed and locked. This feature is installed in the factory and fully concealed: no more unsightly sensors attached on the exterior or interior, and no additional modification of your product once installed. The sensor can be wired or wirelessly connected, working in tandem with your smart home security system to indicate if windows and doors are closed and locked or unlocked, providing peace of mind when security is a concern.

Make an appointment today

We’re the only showroom in New York City with this window. Make an appointment today for an opportunity to check it out in person to see if it’s the right fit for your project.

Take a peek at Bertrand's passive window series

When it comes to passive houses, you can’t be passive about your choice in windows. Windows and doors are the enemy of an efficient building envelope, since they’re essentially holes in an otherwise super-efficient wall and roof system. Every window choice is a careful balance of performance and aesthetics.

The Ultratherm Ultima is a wood-aluminum composite with three or four layers of glazing.

Enter Bertrand Windows and Doors. With an entire line of windows dedicated to the science of passive home creation, you can’t go wrong. They’re our exclusive partner for a reason— you don’t have just one option, but four to choose from. Three of their products have triple-glazing and a fourth has four layers of glass to provide the highest performance. With a wide selection of wood species, thermally broken aluminum, and composites they have a solution for every passive house fenestration decision.

Bertrand’s windows are crafted in Poland to European high standards.

Traditional Stained Glass Meets High Performance

If Stained Glass: Art & Function piqued your interest in stained glass, but you’re committed to high performance windows, look no further. Our exclusive partner Norwood Windows & Doors has the exact product you’re looking for.

They bring traditional stained glass into the 21st century by sandwiching traditional stained glass between energy efficient panes. Continuous glazing and leaded grilles ensures a seamless look and feel, but without the high energy bills of traditional single-pane stained glass.

Even better, leaded lites are available in any Norwood product. And, If you have your own design, we can work with Norwood to make it a reality.

They offer a full range of glass textures, but the sky’s the limit:

• Baroque

• Beveled

• Cathedral

• Clear

• Glue Chip

• Greylite

• Hammered

• Obscure

• Rain

• Seeded

• Solar Bronze

• Solar Grey

• Water

They also offer bright brass, patina, and silver caming options.

Norwood is a family-owned Canadian window and door manufacturer and exclusive partner. They specialize in finely crafted and custom products. Norwood’s windows and doors are made of only sustainably harvested lumber and offer many high performance products that meet or exceed Energy Star requirements.

Double-hung windows are perfect for summer

Double-hung windows are one of the most common, and popular, window styles.

Double-hung windows consist of two sashes, one hung over the other. The lower sash raises and the upper sash lowers, with the potential for the two sashes to bypass each other. A single-hung window has a stationary top sash, where only the lower sash can raise and lower.

Why double-hung?

One of the most attractive characteristics of a double-hung window is that both sashes operate. This gives you control over ventilation. Because hot air rises, when you lower the upper sash the hot air near your ceiling will exhaust out the open window. Any cooking smoke or steam that rises will also exhaust through an open upper sash.

This is especially effective when the outdoor temperature is lower than the inside temperature. When you raise the lower sash, cooler air will flow in from the outside.

Double-hung windows are machines

While windows look fairly simple, when you consider how they operate you get a glimpse of how they are really sophisticated machines that are meant to move. Double-hung windows are usually either operated by a weight and chain system or spiral balance system.

Windows operated by weight and chain, or sometimes called weight and pulley, have a chain (or cotton cord) that connects the sash to a weight that is concealed in the wall next to the window. The weight is balanced against the weight of the sash, so that when you raise the sash you only need enough force to overcome the weatherstripping and the hidden weight does the rest of the work for you.

Weight and chain windows are easy to operate, even when the sashes are heavy. They are also easy to repair. Some historical requirements may call for weight and chain windows. However, they do need enough room in the wall cavity for the weight chambers, and when you have side by side windows you need a wider mullion to compensate for the weight chambers behind. They are also more expensive than spiral balance windows.

Spiral balance windows utilize a spiral rod and spring in a narrow tube concealed by the window’s side jambs. When the sash is lifted, the rod attached to the bottom of the sash rotates and lifts the window. They require significant force to open; for a window sash that weights 100 pounds you need 30 pounds of force to raise the sash.   

Spiral balance windows are lighter and easier to install and need little in the way of mull width for windows that are directly adjacent. They are less expensive than weight and chain windows, but may not meet all historical requirements. The spring mechanism has a limited number of “lifts” and are more difficult to repair than weight and chain windows. Very large or heavy windows may need to the counterbalance provided by weight and chain in order to be lifted to open.

There are other ways to operate double-hung windows, such as block and tackle or coil balance, but they are less common.

Product Highlight: Custom Wood Double Hung Windows

The building owner chose a custom exterior color for this Landmark renovation.

Jeld-Wen’s custom wood double hung windows give building owners a nearly unlimited number of options to choose from. There are nine wood options available in 27 stock exterior colors and 63 stock interior finishes with some reduced VOC options. Custom paint colors can be added in the field.

There are also ten different hardware finishes.

The tilt-sash windows come in high performance, tinted, textured, or protective options and three different options for divided lites.

This homeowner-friendly product has a 20-year warranty and is suitable for both replacements and new construction.

The project to the right utilized 17 custom wood double hungs with high performance glass and simulated divided lights.

Grilles between the glass are a low-maintenance.

Full surround removable grilles gives the look of divided glass.

Simulated divided lites are permanent grilles on both the interior and exterior, for the most authentic look.

West 11th Street Windows

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The Historical Windows team achieved this classic look using Parrett Custom Mahogany Weight and Chain Double Hungs. These windows provide flexibility to meet the clients’ custom specifications and high quality construction.