Window Repair & Replacement in Xenia, OH

Xenia is the seat of Greene County, about fifteen miles southeast of Dayton, and its housing tells a story you will not find in many Ohio towns. On April 3, 1974, an F5 tornado tore through the city and damaged or destroyed roughly half of its buildings. The Greene County Courthouse and the old brick depot at Xenia Station survived as downtown landmarks, but block after block of houses had to be rebuilt from the ground up. The years that followed brought one of the largest reconstructions the region has ever seen, so a remarkable share of Xenia’s homes went up in the mid-to-late 1970s, all at once.

That single fact drives much of the window work we do here. Those 1970s rebuilds were fitted with the era’s aluminum frames and first-generation insulated glass, and five decades on, those units are aging together. Aluminum conducts cold and sweats in winter, the original seals fail and fog the glass, and the balances on older sashes wear out. On jobs around Xenia we see the same cluster of problems street after street, simply because so many houses share an age.

The picture is not uniform, though. Pockets the storm spared — the historic streets near downtown and the older homes in Xenia South — still carry early-twentieth-century wood double-hungs with wavy glass and crumbling glazing putty. A cracked pane on one of those solid frames is a quick glass repair, while a fogged 1970s unit is usually an insulated glass replacement rather than a whole new window. Add the severe-weather season this part of Ohio is known for, and storm-cracked glass is a regular call too. Whatever the cause, we handle the full range across every Xenia neighborhood.