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Casement Windows:What To Know Before You Buy?

May. 11, 2021

When shopping for new construction or replacement windows for your home, you'll come across several popular window styles: sliding, double hung, single hung and fixed. Casement Windows often lurk in the background of catalogs and may catch your attention. However, this unique window type deserves serious consideration, and it may be a good match for all or part of your home's window replacement project.

What are casement windows?

Unlike windows that open and close by sliding the sash up and down, casement windows open and close like doors by hinges attached to the sides of the window frame. Most casement windows have a crank handle that you can turn to open and close. Others have a latch that, once opened, you can simply push the window open and pull it closed by hand.

Casement Windows

Casement Windows

When the sash is fully open, a tensioning device holds the window securely in place. When the sash is closed, a latch on the inside of the house pulls the sash tight against the draught excluder of the window frame.

Casement windows provide a completely open window

Casement windows are the only type of window available in the general consumer market that can be opened completely. Essentially, you are lifting the sash up and almost out of the house with only a thin edge attached. The only way to have a window that opens completely is to take the sash out completely.

All other types of windows open at most halfway: double-hung windows are those that open on the top or bottom half, Sliding Windows are those that open on only one side, and fixed windows never open.

Casement windows catch side winds

If you want to promote air circulation in your house, casement windows can be beneficial to you. The open sash on a casement window acts as a baffle, sending breezes into the house. If your house is tightly surrounded by neighbors, the angle of a casement window allows you to catch the breeze. Window sashes can effectively scoop and send air into your house.

However, if the prevailing breeze tends to go in the other direction, this could also work against you. The breeze that flows over the top of a casement window sash is essentially not sent inside. Casement windows block the breeze.

Casement windows are better designed than ever

Casement windows do have some problems. One long-standing problem is the potential for the mechanical operating system of a casement window to fail. To address this issue, many Aluminum Window Manufacturers have improved their opening and closing systems.

Another option is to simply not use the opening and closing system at all. Some companies offer push-to-open casement windows. With this type of window, the only mechanical operation, other than the hinges, is the tensioning device that opens the window.

Casement windows provide a clear view

Do you like the clear, unobstructed view that a fixed or picture window provides? But you also want to be able to open the window? A casement window is an ideal hybrid between a fixed window and a sliding window.

Casement windows are the only type of window that can be opened, yet show a full expanse of unobstructed glass when closed. Other windows have at least one bar separating the window. Double-hung and single-hung windows are made up of two sashes, so they have a horizontal line between them. Sliding windows have a vertical bar. Fixed windows do not have a stripe, but they do not open.

Also, casement windows have enough flexibility in style that you can choose to use a divider strip if you wish. Double casement windows have a functional vertical divider bar. Or you can choose non-functional stops: wood slats, vinyl, metal or fiberglass that visually divide the large sash into multiple smaller sashes. These false sashes are installed between double panes of glass, or as a clip-on attachment.

Casement windows are more secure than other windows

No type of window can completely stop an intruder from breaking into your house. All windows have their weaknesses, and even with the most secure windows, an intruder can always break the glass to enter your home.

However, compared to other types of windows, casement windows are very difficult to break. For other windows, breaking the glass makes it easy to open the window completely. In the case of double-hung windows, for example, once the glass is broken, an intruder can simply reach in and turn the latch at the top of the lower sash. This allows the intruder to lift the sash and enter the house without having to deal with the broken glass on entry.

Casement windows, however, can only be opened by turning the window's crank handle. Breaking the glass allows access to the crank handle, but it is difficult to turn the crank handle through broken glass. Some homeowners make their casement windows more secure by removing the crank from the window and keeping it nearby, but out of reach.

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