You have to order the glass from Acorn and give them exact measurements so that they can make up replacement glass for your particular model window. There should be some screws at the top of the frame so you can remove the top part of the frame so you can slide out the glass. It was a long time ago, but, as I recall you lift the bottom window about 3 inches so that you can tilt out the window as if you were going to clean it. Of course if you have a second pair of hands helping it is going to be much easier. There is a way to take the frame apart, remove the glass and put in the replacement glass - I did one small window myself and it took me a few hours to do one small window. I don't have $7K as you may see from my picture with my classy brown gravel driveway, landfill looking yard, and dead plant. Spend your money on putting in a better quality window.ĭo we know how them men folk popped out the glass from the aluminum frames? Not to be a pane (you're welcome reed), but I was hoping for a low cost solution. The seals go bad very quickly and you have the same problem within a few years. I should have gotten rid of those Acorn windows years ago.Īcorn windows are not worth trying to fix. I spent about $7000 and replaced with OKNA 500 series windows in 2009. ![]() What a difference in the overall comfort and the much lower utility bills. I eventually wised up and had all my windows replaced with good quality windows. Five years after that they were all bad again! Two men could replace all 10 windows in my home in less than an hour.įive years later, the same thing happened to the windows, but, this time they charged me over $1000 to replace the faulty glass. They had teams coming in with truck loads of windows and popping out the glass from the aluminum frame and replacing the glass. Within 5 years all the houses had the same problem and since the builder still was building the community they were all replaced under warranty. It is a cheap window they used in our 500 home community back in 1980's. If they leak something is wrong.I am familiar with the Acorn brand and this particular problem. UNless they are really old (like pre-civil war), they were not made to leak. Also, over time, we are reconditioning the windows. Basically a wooden frame with lexan panel in it. We are slowly buting interior storm windows. also kids and cats may damage the plastic and then you have to replace it. Towards the end of winter, sometimes parts of the tape will let go. It does a good job keeping the drafts out. Once you get it heated and shrunk you can see it fill like a sale. If it does not pull off pait of clear coat, it leaves tape residue which is hard to remove without damaging the finish. If you had somehting metal or plastic to tape it to, it would be better. The tape for the shrink wrap does damage your moling both painted or stained. SOmetimes little bits stick and you have to work them out. In the spring, you just grab it with needle nose pliers and pull it off. You caulk all of the joints and anywhere air comes through with it. Sometimes it will pull paint off the windows, but not usually. Seal and peel smells horribly when you do all the windows at once. ![]() We have used both seal and peel and the shrink wrap stuff. the fact that I may be losing even a few dollars to preventable heat loss drives me crazy. The point is heating oil in New England is very expensive. I have to get my wife and ask her to check it, that's how slight it is. ![]() Sometimes when I put my hand around the window I don't even know if it's a draft or just a temperature change from having my hand so close to the window. it's just that I can still feel very subtle slight drafts. Some of the windows were sort of like that before I did the weatherstripping but are now much better. When I say draft I don't mean you can literally feel the air flowing in with any great force. I guess it's in how you define draft too. It's a nice home but they are built by contractors who use cheap "contractor grade" supplies for everything, including the windows. ![]() Well I live in New Hampshire and up this way there are a lot of Colonial homes that are pretty much cookie cutter homes (which is what we have).
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