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Don’t spend another Labor Day slaving over your windows. Instead, spend this 3-day weekend enjoying your time off and doing something fun.
How can you do this with all the window maintenance that needs to be done and should have been done months ago? Easy, install maintenance free windows.
Maintenance free windows will not only free up your Labor Day weekend, but ever other three day weekend you have off, as well as the summer months when you would rather be playing than working on the house.
What Are Maintenance Free Windows?
Maintenance free windows are any windows that don’t require you to constantly have to paint, sand, and clean them. If they do have to be cleaned it is usually just an easy spray down job, and most of us enjoy playing with the garden hose anyway, so it doesn’t really feel like work.
How Can Windows be Maintenance Free?
This is a great question because windows have never been maintenance free in the past. But with today’s technology, more and more materials that are being made to make windows out of last longer and have a different composition than previous used materials. This change in composition makes the materials easier to clean.
All the Parts of a Window Can’t Possible Be Maintenance Free
Actually, just about every part is.
Starting with the glass, the high-performance Low-E4 glass that Renewal by Andersen has available uses the outside elements to clean themselves whenever they get dirty. They can do this because they are made with a titanium dioxide exterior coating that releases any dirt on the glass when the sun shines on the coating. Then the next time it rains, the dirt simply washes away.
The window frames from Renewal by Andersen are made with a new material called, Fibrex. This material doesn’t need to be scrapped, sanded or repainted like wood does, and it doesn’t warp like vinyl. So this material is not only maintenance free, it will also last longer than other previous materials used to make window frames.
Finally, even the window screens have been made maintenance free. Our TruScene High Transparency Insect Screens are made from micro-fine stainless steel mesh that has smaller holes in it, so smaller bugs can’t get trapped in them. This mesh is also stronger than the regular material that window screens are made from, which means they don’t tear as easy but you can still spray them down to get the dirt off.