Windows in Newark are often older units in brick, set close to a noisy street and a damp wind off the river and the bay. Double-hung wood gets painted shut. Sills take rain. Replacement units from an earlier decade sit beside original openings on the same facade. A window unit for cooling may own the sash all summer. Drafts are not a mystery. They are gaps in a wall that has been in weather for a long time.
Decide what the opening is doing before you decide the scope. A broken balance or a fogged pane can be a repair. A soft sill, a frame loose in the brick, or water staining the plaster below the stool is a larger job. Insert work leaves the old frame. Full-frame work opens the masonry edge, which is worth it when the wood is gone and wasteful when the brickmold is sound. Say how many, and whether any opening must still work as the exit to a fire escape or a rear stair.
Leaks here often need the brick in the sentence. A failed lintel or a joint above the window can wet the wall while the glass looks fine. Say if the water appears only in wind-driven rain. Say if the glass sweats all winter because the heat is radiators and the sash is old. Street noise is real, but the call still needs the condition of the frame. Basement windows near the sidewalk take splash and salt from the road. Name them if they are the wet ones.
Have the count, the material, and the floor. Say if you own the house or one flat, because the facade may not be yours alone to change. Ask how the sill is flashed and who repairs interior trim. Odd sizes are normal in this housing. A stock unit that almost fits is how drafts survive a replacement. Describe the worst opening, and say if a window unit has to come back.
These are not shore picture windows and not new suburban sliders. Windows in Newark are brick openings on a dense older block. Call the number on this page.