When it comes to home improvements, windows are often overlooked. But if you're building a new home or considering a significant renovation, it's essential to understand the benefits of new construction casement windows. These versatile and energy-efficient windows can make a significant impact on your home's comfort, energy consumption, and overall aesthetic. In this blog post, we'll explore the advantages of casement windows, discuss the various styles and materials available, and provide helpful tips for selecting the perfect windows for your project.
Casement windows are hinged at the side and open outward, either to the left or right. This design offers several advantages compared to traditional double-hung or sliding windows:
1. Improved Ventilation:Casement windows open fully, allowing for maximum airflow and natural ventilation. This can help reduce your reliance on air conditioning, leading to lower energy bills and a more comfortable living environment.
2. Enhanced Security:Casement windows feature a multi-point locking system, making them more difficult for intruders to pry open. Additionally, the window's design prevents it from being opened from the outside when locked, providing added peace of mind.
3. Easy Operation:Casement windows are simple to open and close, making them an excellent choice for hard-to-reach areas, such as over a kitchen sink or behind a sofa.
4. Superior Energy Efficiency:Casement windows create a tight seal when closed, reducing drafts and improving your home's overall energy efficiency. This can lead to lower heating and cooling costs and a more comfortable living environment.
Casement windows are available in a variety of styles, materials, and finishes, allowing you to customize the look and feel of your home. Some popular options include:
1. Wood Casement Windows:Wooden casement windows offer a classic, timeless look that complements various architectural styles. Wood is a natural insulator, making wooden casement windows an energy-efficient choice. However, wood windows require regular maintenance, such as painting or staining, to prevent rot and damage.
2. Vinyl Casement Windows:Vinyl windows are low-maintenance, energy-efficient, and resistant to warping, rotting, and fading. They are available in a wide range of colors and finishes, making it easy to find a style that suits your home's aesthetic.
3. Aluminum Casement Windows:Aluminum windows are lightweight, durable, and resistant to rust and corrosion. They also offer excellent thermal performance, making them an energy-efficient choice. However, aluminum windows can be more expensive than other materials.
4. Fiberglass Casement Windows:Fiberglass windows are exceptionally strong, durable, and energy-efficient. They require minimal maintenance and can be painted or stained to match your home's exterior. Fiberglass windows can be more expensive than other materials, but their longevity and performance often justify the investment.
When choosing new construction casement windows for your home, consider the following factors:
1. Size and Placement:Determine the appropriate size and placement of your casement windows based on your home's layout, the room's function, and your desired level of natural light and ventilation.
2. Energy Efficiency:Look for casement windows with a high energy performance rating, such as those certified by ENERGY STAR. These windows will have features like low-E glass, argon gas fill, and warm-edge spacers to improve thermal performance.
3. Window Hardware:Select window hardware that complements your home's design and is easy to operate. Consider features like folding handles, which can help prevent interference with window treatments.
4. Grilles and Divided Lites:Customize your casement windows with grilles or divided lites to match your home's architectural style. Options include simulated divided lites, which mimic the look of individual panes, and removable grilles, which can be taken out for easy cleaning.
5. Warranty and Installation:Choose a reputable window manufacturer that offers a comprehensive warranty and professional installation services. Proper installation is critical to ensuring your casement windows perform as intended and provide the desired energy efficiency benefits.
By carefully considering these factors and working with a knowledgeable window professional, you can select the perfect new construction casement windows for your home. These energy-efficient, versatile windows will not only enhance your home's comfort and performance but also add a touch of elegance and style that will last for years to come.
Casement windows are the most common style of window. They feature hinged panels that swing open and closed. Casement windows are available in single panels or multiple panels. The direction a door swings, either to the right or the left, is called the handing. In addition to handing, window are identified as either inswing or outswing depending on whether they open into the house or towards the outside.
Our team of experts will work with you to develop a bespoke plan that fits your needs. We take a holistic approach to the planning process, combining our technical expertise with our knowledge of customer requirements and project constraints.
This newly built private house is in Sydney, Australia. The area occupied by the fenestration system in our scheduled design drawings was up to more than 110 square meters. A wide range of design details made the perfect mix of modern aesthetics and traditional sophistication, the simulated vertical hung windows with tilt & turn opening systems in this home are absolutely breathtaking. SDLS (Simulated Divided Lites with Spacer Bar) brings some historical vintage feeling to the whole building without losing any energy saving performance. Long narrow fixed windows creating larger-than-life expenses, coupled with German high-end systems made this project stand out from the rest.
The client's idea was to maintain a certain vintage feel, and our aim was to meet the energy efficiency needs and standards of modern houses as much as possible while maintaining a retro design. Doorwin’s 61S simulated hung windows with tilt & turn openings is a respectful modernization of a classic architectural masterwork.
Why choose the tilt and turn opening method?
Because it generally has better air seals than sliding, single hung, or double hung window frames. Tilt and turn windows form a complete seal when fully closed, this means they are less prone to water leakage, and cold draughts and you’ll keep more of your heating indoors where it belongs. They can be opened in the upper tilt way to ventilate at a minimum opening status and are easy to clean outside of the glass; when there’s a good day, they can be opened as normal inward casement windows.
Our well-crafted bespoke systems enhance the functionality and panoramic view of this modern house.
Huge, fixed glass walls up to seven meters long and two meters high bring great lighting and open views, making it really refreshing to the mind. Five meters high long narrow windows give the whole building a contemporary aesthetic.
Every window’s placement and shape not only add to the uniqueness of this home but also provide a more energy-saving ability for the owners.
Doorwin energy-efficient integrated glazing units feature double-pane glass, warm-edge spacers, argon gas fill, Low-E coatings, and fully tempered glass, they can not only create a comfortable and natural indoor environment but also save electricity bills and heating bills of more than 100 USD for the owner, it’s a real bargain compared to choosing a regular glazing set.
Aluminum Door offered an air of uniqueness and elegance to a home. With their luxurious patterns and beautiful finishes, it provides this house with a bounty of aesthetics and security. Aluminum entry doors allow you to resist any weather extremes, corrosion, and pests. So aluminum is one of the most resilient and durable materials you can select for front doors considering the price/performance ratio.
With pieces of double panes, and Low-E tempered glass. The door provides a good insulation performance.
Divided lite windows and doors offer unique architectural solutions for buildings without compromising energy efficiency or aesthetics. Doorwin provides multiple muntin and glass options to customize your divided lite windows and doors. Further customization is available with a variety of colors and materials, creating an infinite number of design combinations to best suit your style.
In this project, we use SDLS (simulated divided lites with spacer bars), these bars permanently adhere to both sides of the glass, and spacer bars are installed between the glass, this is the most energy-efficient way to create the look of classical décor grilles. The windows in the bathroom bedroom and study have an Arch Transom Design, making these rooms, which are often used by the owner, have some traditional aesthetics.
BTW, Doorwin offers free design assistance, so if you need a custom design like this one, contact us right away and we will provide you with the most aesthetically and functionally pleasing design solution.
For windows and doors, hardware is as important as the engine is to the car. The continuous technological innovation of the European hardware industry has strongly promoted the performance improvement and functional innovation of windows and doors. In this project, Doorwin uses Hoppe™ multi-point locks, hinges, and handles from Germany.
Multi-point lock systems provide not only the burglar-resistance but also a tighter compression seam, making the window keeps good energy-efficient performance. Together with Technoform Bautec’s insulation edge bond and sealant strips, these make up our products' top insulation and energy-saving performance.
We have several international patents to reduce clients’ labor costs, such as our unique flanges and assembly type tubular design, which is different from the other products on the market. What sets us apart among Chinese counterpart is that all our products are equipped with nail fin structures for quick and easy installation. Labor costs during installation may exceed of the window and door price, therefore, our exclusive patent allows users to not only get a significant increase in installation efficiency, but also greatly reduce the labor cost of window and door installation. A cost that may bring you unexpected savings that far exceed the price difference you may care about now.
With our own expertise, we provided the no-cost design development and contract documentation with CAD & BIM drawings, including elevation, details about the project, and installation help.
Before production, we will provide accurate sample drawings, which will clearly show the cross-sectional pattern, size, opening method and direction, pattern of the warm spacer, and the installation nodes. We will not go into production until you have signed off on the drawing to ensure that you receive a final product that meets the exact requirements of your project.
Doorwin's professional packing system guarantees all products are delivered safely and without any damage. We apply a four-point packing system. Firstly, adhesive plastic film is applied on interior wood frames and exterior aluminum frames to avoid scratches on the surface. Then, a paper board is applied after we apply air bubble film surrounding the whole windows/ doors to avoid any destruction or clash. Lastly, we place them into a durable non-fumigation plywood crate to avoid any possible damage during transportation.
With years of experience shipping our products worldwide, we could guarantee to ship our products to their final destinations intact and without any damage.
Doorwin is one of the most professional window & door manufacturers are known for its great customized products. In Doorwin, a variety of colors, styles, and sizes of products are available to meet the client’s unique requirements. We own three ISO9000-certified modern factories in China. With a factory area of 20,000 m2 and a production capacity of 100,000 m2 per year. Doorwin Group has the scale to ensure timely delivery and the flexibility to reduce manufacturing lead times to as short as 18 days.