Window Styles: Choose Your Opening

Today manufacturers give you a broader than ever choice of windows, letting you choose window styles that express your taste and fit the way you like to live.

Bay windows can be placed to let enjoy side as well as front views. Often they have three or more windows. The side windows project out in 30, 45 or 90-degree angles. Parts of the bay window can be fixed or venting, giving you many options.

Awning windows have the hinges on top, and the bottom swings outwards. When you close an awning window, the sash presses against the frame, and for this reason awning windows can typically have less air leakage than window styles. An awning window usually has the screen placed inside the window frame.

Double Hung windows let you move each sash up and down. Open the window an inch -- or up to one half of its entire height. Place a screen on the inside or outside of the window frame. How is a Single Hung window different? Only the bottom can slide.

Casement windows open from the side. They leak less air, because the sash closes by pressing on the frame. The screens go on the inside. Because casement windows open outward, they let in more air than the equivalent sliding window.

Double-Sliding windows let you slide both sashes horizontally. Single-Sliding windows let you move only one sash. They don't need the springs or counterweights that hung windows require to stay open, so they need less maintenance and can be less expensive. They also provide a clean, sleek look. Screens can be placed on either the interior or exterior of the window.

Fixed frame or picture windows are the most basic of window styles. Typically this type of window doesn't open.

There are also others such as basement, bow, storm, garden and specialist windows.

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