Window repair in Fishers, Indiana
Fishers had 344 residents in 1960 and about 2,000 in 1980. Nearly every house standing here today went up after that, which makes it the newest housing stock we work in and gives the town a very particular window problem.
Sunblest Farms, the mid-1980s development that put roughly 3,000 homes in at once, is the oldest large tranche in the city. Those windows are now around forty years old. Everything built through the 1990s and 2000s is right behind it.
Why almost every Fishers call is about glass
In an older town we spend our time on rotted sills and worn sash cords. Here it is nearly always the sealed glass unit.
Double-pane windows hold an insulating gas between the panes, held in by a seal around the edge. That seal has a working life, and in the builder-grade units fitted across Fishers through the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s it is commonly fifteen to twenty-five years. Once it fails, moisture gets in and you get haze, streaking and a permanent fog that will not wipe off from either side.
The important part: the frame is almost always fine. We replace the glass unit and leave the window in the wall. It costs a fraction of replacement and takes a fraction of the time.
The vinyl question
A great deal of what went into Fishers in the boom years was vinyl, and vinyl divides into two piles.
Where the frame is sound and only the glass or the hardware has gone, it is repairable and worth repairing. Balances, locks, sash guides and glass units are all replaceable.
Where the frame itself has warped, sagged at the corners, or gone brittle, it is not. Vinyl cannot be repaired the way wood can, and we will tell you plainly when a window has reached that point rather than sell you a repair that will not hold.
Repair or replace
If the glass has fogged and the frame is sound, we replace the glass.
If the hardware has failed, we replace the hardware.
If the frame has lost its structure, or the window was cheaply made and is not worth the labour, replacement is the honest answer and we say so. We install wood, clad and vinyl windows when that is the right call.
Most companies that will come to a Fishers address sell replacement windows, so replacement is what they recommend. We would rather fix the seventeen windows that can be fixed and replace the three that cannot.
What a visit looks like
Someone comes out and looks at every window you are worried about, then tells you which need work now, which can wait, and which are fine. You get that in writing, separated out. There is no charge for the visit.
Glass and hardware work is usually measured on the first visit and fitted on the second.
Nearby
We cover Hamilton County and the ring around it, including Carmel, Noblesville, Westfield and Zionsville. Our shop is on Hillsdale Court, a short run down I-69. The full list is on our service areas page.
Roofing and exteriors in Fishers
We are an exterior contractor as well as a window shop, so if the windows are going at the same time as the roof, one crew can handle both. See roofing in Fishers, or ask about siding and gutters when you call.