Storm windows inside mount

Our lens can be replaced easily at any time without having to buy a new frame. Save on utility costs and avoid carpet and furniture fading in your house. Attractive, professional miter cut frame corners provide the best appearance. Our frames are sturdy, attractive high grade alloy aluminum, the number 1 choice material of major window manufacturers.

They are specially made to blend in beautifully with your older wood windows too, by looking like painted wood frames. It gets pushed in too deep, or too far pushed in on one corner. Our frame is super easy to install and align in your window frame.

Our patent-pending articulating corner frame easily adapts to the shape of your window cavity. Our high-grade compressible EPDM industrial rubber edge will seal around all 4 sides.

The closed cells trap air, cold and sound waves. Avoid the cheap grey open cell foam of other frames. Compare the superior design and features of our patent-pending frame to Innerglass and Indow frames that cost x more.

We are experts in making frames. In the frame industry, we have made over 6 million frames for graphic display and tough environment public transit stations. So, we know how to make durable, tough, attractive frames. Above is a beautiful Chicago skyline, night photo, taken from the John Hancock building. Why Chicago made? We are a city built on manufacturing and centrally located in the U. We have grateful, hard working, caring employees that want you to make the best products at the lowest prices.

Our smart sales staff answer our phones and emails for questions and placing orders. We keep valuable jobs in America. Providing us the dimensions is easy. See below for measuring details. We make and ship your frames along with the lens of your choice.

We will make sure you measured correctly before we make your frames. Install frame, insert lens and start saving big on utilities and protecting your windows!

We are proud to offer a product that will save you on utility bills and protect your old windows! Measure top, middle, and bottom for width and height. Measure carefully! Carefully unpack your frames. Make sure LENS is fully seated in the frame bottom. The bottom of the frame has weep holes to allow any condensation or moisture to escape. This is mandatory for all exterior storm windows, regardless of manufacturer. You will measure either the OD outer dimension of your outside trim or the cavity of your exterior window.

You will mount your Storm Snaps either on your trim, or on your exterior blind stop ledge. See below for details on how to measure. Measure top, middle and bottom for width and height. Exterior frames are best trim mounted if you have a flat 1. Definition of Sill: bottom of your exterior window frame, slightly angled down to drain water away from window. The 2 Frame Options will be whether you want a 4 sided frame or 3 sided frame.

We can make any of the Exterior frames without the bottom frame piece, so that after removing the LENS, you will not have the bottom frame piece to trap leaves or other debris in your outside window cavity.

The bottom end of the LENS will rest upon the sill. When you remove the lens, your window will be totally un-obstructed and nothing on the sill.

A 4 sided frame will have the bottom frame piece and weep hole flange at bottom. The frame is meant to keep the lens in place all year. The bottom of the lens simply rests on the sill. If you wish to remove the lens seasonally, because there is no bottom frame piece, leaves and debris will not get trapped at the bottom sill. Step 1 Without lens installed, align frame only on your exterior window trim or blind mount ledge.

Make SURE that the bottom flange with the weep holes is at the bottom resting on top of or meeting at your sill. Do not let the flange go over the front of the sill. The weep holes will allow any condensation or water to weep out if it gets in. Use a level to make your frame is mounted straight. Flip open the frame edges to gain access to the mounting holes in the channel, OR if blind stop mount, you will screw via the edge holes in the flange.

Using 6 sheet metal screws in the holes provided, screw the frame to your exterior window trim of the blind stop ledge. You can add more holes if you wish. Make sure all 4 corners are pressed down. Alpina Websites Network. Cortland St. All 4 sides of frame "flip up" for easy loading lens. All 4 sides "flip down" to hold lens in place. Frame stays in place in your window cavity, but lens easily removes for cleaning, seasonal removal, different lenses.

Portable Student Desk Shields. Acrylic Countertop Sneeze Barriers. All 4 frame sides "flip open" to easily remove and clean leans and interior window pane and cavity. Un-assembled Inner1. Condensation is greatly reduced. Interior storms are recommended for soundproofing, as well.

Even standard glazing will provide good sound insulation, and some companies offer an acoustic-grade window for impressive noise reduction. Low-E coatings add even more R-value by turning glazing into a heat mirror. Easily removed, interior storms by reputable companies are approved by most building codes for egress escape in an emergency and for ingress by firefighters. Various companies offer glass, acrylic e. Polycarbonate generally is reserved for exterior window panels that need to be unbreakable for security reasons.

Polycarbonate is the material that has a reputation for yellowing after UV exposure. Acrylic should be cleaned with a product like Brillianize Cleaner and a soft cloth like Wypall, not with paper towels. Indow suggests that customers remove and reinstall inserts a couple of times a year to reseat them; panels reduce air conditioning load so may be used year-round.

The company recommends storing them flat, no more than three windows in a stack, and using their clear storage sleeves to protect against scratches. These companies are recognized for the efficacy of their retrofit interior glazing suitable for historic homes:.

All glazing options are available glass, tempered, tinted, acrylic, low-E, polycarbonate. The magnetic panel is inserted into an upper channel installed with screws, then pressed into jamb stops.

One version offers a vertical-opening operating bottom panel for ventilation; another has sliding panels for use with steel casements. The company has a line suitable for smaller windows with limited sill depth. Options include custom colors, screens, and special shapes and muntin configurations. Indow interior storm panels are routinely made to precisely fit non-standard and out-of-square windows; arched and rounded windows can be made.

Indow panels are acrylic and edged in silicone compression tubing that creates a spring force to hold inserts in place without a mounting bracket. Integral safety straps are available for high-wind installations.

The acoustic grade cuts outside noise by more than 70 percent; shade grade performs like low-E glass and is recommended for hot climates; their museum grade blocks UV light; privacy grade is translucent to admit light while creating privacy. Climate Seal has long been known for commercial and historic-preservation work, and now serves residential customers. The system uses magnetic attachment with mouldings and a bellows design to eliminate clips and screws. Preservation Series minimizes the aesthetic imprint and provides museum-level UV filtering.

Pro offers the advantages of Thermal with abrasion-resistant acrylic. One offering is a two-panel self-storing window with an operable lower insert.

Innerglass makes interior panels, tightly compression-fitted, which act as a vapor barrier. A header channel fits inside the top of the window frame; compression sides are squeezed into the channel, then pressed top to bottom.