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Can You Replace Just the Sash on an Old Casement Window?
The short answer Yes. On most wood casement windows, you can replace the sash and keep the frame. Fenster builds wood replacement sashes and casement hardware for old and discontinued window brands. If your casement is drafty, sticking, or rotting, a new sash usually...
How to Buy a Caradco Replacement Sash Without a Salesman in Your Living Room
The Old Way to Buy a Window Here's how most people think you buy a window. A guy shows up at your house. He sits at your kitchen table for three hours. He gives you a big number. Then a smaller number. Then he tells you the smaller number expires the minute he walks...
What Actually Happens After You Order a Caradco Replacement Sash
You found us at eleven at night after searching for a Caradco replacement sash, or a Norco sash, or a Pozzi sash that nobody makes anymore. You put in an order with a company in Indiana you have never heard of. Now you are wondering what shows up, and when, and...
Will an Aftermarket Replacement Sash Actually Work? Here’s What 25 Years of Deliveries Answered | The Sash Cast Episode 4
The most common question Fenster Components gets is not about price. It is not about lead time. It is four words. Will it actually work? It is a fair question. You are standing in front of a failing sash on a window nobody makes anymore. The brand plate says Caradco,...
Stop Trying to Identify Your Window. Just Show Us the Rectangle.
Most homeowners start in the same place. Something is wrong with a window, they go looking for a part number, and they hit a wall. There is no sticker. There is no model plate. There is no catalog page that matches what's sitting in the opening. So they call and ask...
Whose Lifetime? What a Lifetime Window Warranty Actually Covers
You bought the windows partly because of the warranty. Lifetime coverage. Sounded like the end of the conversation. Then a sash failed. You called. And you found out the company that made your window either does not exist anymore or does not make that model anymore....
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Stop Trying to Identify Your Window. Just Show Us the Rectangle.
Ordering a Caradco or Norco replacement sash does not require a catalog. Here is what Fenster needs from you, and how long it takes.
Whose Lifetime? What a Lifetime Window Warranty Actually Covers
Your window’s lifetime warranty may be worthless. Here is how homeowners replace a sash on a discontinued Caradco or Norco window.
How to Order a Replacement Window Sash Without Overthinking It | The Sash Cast Episode 3
Foggy glass, rotted wood, broken cranks. See what actually fails in a wood window and why a replacement sash beats tearing it out.
Foggy Glass, Rotted Wood, and Broken Cranks: What Is Actually Failing in Your Wood Windows | The Sash Cast Episode 2
Foggy glass, rotted wood, broken cranks. See what actually fails in a wood window and why a replacement sash beats tearing it out.
Window Sash Replacement: The Option Nobody Puts on Your Table | The Sash Cast Episode 1
Wood window sash replacement costs a third of full replacement. Ryan explains why repair is the option nobody ever offers you.
5 Window Sales Tactics Designed to Make You Sign Tonight
It takes real training to turn a $400 problem into an $18,000 quote. Learn the five tactics window salespeople run at your kitchen table.