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Window Replacement In Minneapolis & The Twin Cities
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A premium window installed wrong performs worse than a modest window installed right. We're carpenters and exterior specialists for the flashing, the framing, and the seal into the wall, which is exactly the part of a window you can't see and can't afford to get wrong.
- Windows fail at their edges, so we install them the way the wall wants.
- Insert or full-frame, quoted window by window, not one-size-fits-the-invoice.
- Rotten sills, bucks, and framing get rebuilt properly as part of the job.
30+ years of Twin Cities exteriors · Master-carpenter installation · Local crews, start to finish · MN Lic. # BC630708
Insert Or Full-Frame?
We tell you what your frames are actually like and quote what your walls actually need, window by window.
The Installation Is The Product
Window marketing sells glass: triple-pane this, low-E that. Glass matters, but here's what three decades of Twin Cities walls have taught us: windows fail at their edges. Water gets in where the unit meets the wall; drafts live in un-insulated shim gaps; rot starts in sills that were never flashed. Minnesota's freeze and thaw cycle finds every one of those shortcuts and pries at it for years.
So we install windows the way the wall wants: sill pans and flashing layered correctly with the housewrap, gaps insulated (not just stuffed), exterior trim built and sealed by actual carpenters, interior finish clean enough that you'd never know we were there. That's the difference between a window that performs on paper and one that performs in January.
Replaced windows along the sidewalk side of a Minneapolis apartment community.
Replaced windows at the entry porches, same Minneapolis apartment community.
Insert Or Full-Frame? The Honest Answer Nobody Leads With
Insert Replacement
The new unit slides into your existing frame. Faster and less expensive, and legitimate when the existing frame is sound, square, and dry. You keep your interior trim; you give up a little glass area.
Full-Frame Replacement
Everything comes out to the studs: frame, sill, trim. It's the correct call when there's rot, out-of-square framing, or failed flashing, because putting a new insert into a rotten frame is burying money in a wet wall.
Plenty of window companies quote inserts everywhere because they're easier to sell. We open up what we need to, tell you what your frames are actually like, and quote what your walls actually need, window by window, not one-size-fits-the-invoice.
What We Install
Quality vinyl, fiberglass, and wood/clad windows matched to the house and the budget: double-hung, casement, sliders, picture, bays, and egress windows for basement bedrooms. On older Minneapolis and St. Paul homes, we're comfortable with the divided-light looks and trim profiles that keep a 1920s face on a 2026 window. Sample options come to the evaluation.
The Rot Gets Fixed On The Way Through
Half our window calls start as "the sill feels soft." Because our crews do structural carpentry every week, rotten sills, bucks, and framing get rebuilt properly as part of the job, then flashed so it doesn't happen again. And when windows are part of a bigger exterior move (new siding, exterior paint, an addition), one team integrates the whole wall, which is exactly how houses stay dry.
Why Homeowners Choose Right Away Construction For Windows
- Carpenters first. The trade a correct window installation actually is.
- Honest insert-vs-full-frame scoping. Per window, with photos of what we find.
- The whole wall, one team. Flashing, siding, trim, and paint that agree with each other.
- Local crews, start to finish, and answering the phone in year ten.
The Standard, Not The Goal
At Right Away Construction, five-star service is the standard, not the goal.
Window FAQ
Per-window pricing depends on size, style, material tier, and whether the opening needs insert or full-frame work. After an evaluation you get an itemized, window-by-window proposal, and if some windows only need weatherstripping or a sash fix, we'll say that instead.
No. Phasing by wall or by worst-first is common and smart. We'll help you sequence it so trim, siding, and budgets line up. Buying in a batch does earn better pricing, and we'll show you that math honestly.
It's a water problem, usually failed flashing or seals letting Minnesota's freeze and thaw work on the wood. Either way it's ours: we rebuild the carpentry, flash it correctly, and set the new unit into a sound opening.
Yes: divided-light patterns, exterior trim profiles, and clad colors that respect a 1920s bungalow or a Tudor face. Old-house sympathy is a specialty across everything we do.
Yes, including the cutting, framing, and well work a code-compliant basement bedroom egress requires. It's a carpentry-heavy job, which is why it's a fit for us.
Free Exterior Evaluation
Find Out What Your Frames Are Actually Like
We open up what we need to, tell you what your frames are actually like, and give you an itemized, window-by-window proposal.
- If some windows only need weatherstripping or a sash fix, we'll say that instead.
- Phasing by wall or by worst-first is common and smart.
- Sample options come to the evaluation.
Done the right way. Right away.
We answer the phone at 612-255-9605 during the day, and we call back the same day when we miss you.
Windows Installed Like The Wall Depends On It, Because It Does.
Straight answers, real carpentry, and windows that still seal tight when the polar vortex checks in.