Eau Claire Screens and Combination Storm Units — Residential & Commercial

Eau Claire Window Replacement provides professional screens and combination storm units in Eau Claire, WI for residential and commercial properties across Eau Claire County and the Chippewa Valley. In most of the country a screen is a bug barrier. Here a great many of them are one half of a triple-track combination unit, so the same frame carries a glass storm panel for seven months of the year and does a thermal job.

That is a direct legacy of how rentals were weatherized here. The cheapest way to satisfy the old transfer standard on a single-glazed window was an exterior storm, and the combination unit, which holds two glass panels and a screen in a shared aluminum frame, was the product landlords bought. Owner-occupiers bought them at the same hardware stores.

So when somebody calls about screens, our first question is what the frame is. If it is a plain half screen in a modern vinyl window, this is a twenty-minute job. If it is a triple-track, we are talking about a thermal component, and throwing it away because a screen tore is an expensive mistake.

Combination units fail in three ways and all three are repairable. The corner keys work loose and the frame racks out of square. The pile in the tracks compacts until panels rattle. And the weep slots along the bottom rail plug with paint, so the sill sits in meltwater every March. None of that needs a new unit. Corner keys, track pile and a drill bit through the weeps cost a fraction of a replacement frame.

Screen material itself is worth a paragraph. Ordinary fiberglass mesh is cheap and forgives abuse. Woven aluminum keeps its shape and survives a cat. Fine-mesh insect screening is the one to ask for if your house sits near the river flats or the flowages, where the biting midges come off the water in June and standard mesh passes them.

There is also a solar mesh worth considering on exactly one elevation. A dense screen cloth on a west-facing window cuts a meaningful share of afternoon heat in July. On a north window it just makes the room dark in a city that is already short of winter daylight, so we fit it where it works and leave the rest.

If you are replacing prime windows, do not automatically scrap the storms. On an unheated porch, a garage or a workshop, the old combination units are the correct window and buying anything better is waste. We routinely move them from the house to the outbuildings rather than to the dumpster.

Rescreening is genuinely cheap, which is rare enough in this trade to be worth saying. Bring frames in, or we pick them up in a batch, and a whole house of screens usually costs less than a single replacement window. Ask about it before you ask about anything else on this list, because a house with tight screens and clear weeps behaves better in August and in March both.

Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a box-frame double-hung with its counterweights still hanging in the jamb pocket, a triple-track aluminum combination storm and screen unit, old-growth pine sash stock milled before the mills closed, a pocket insert set inside the original blind stop, a tear-out that removes blind stop, frame and pockets together, a rigid sill pan with the ends dammed and the back leg turned up — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Eau Claire and nearby communities including Altoona, Chippewa Falls, Lake Hallie, Menomonie.

What We Handle

Why Eau Claire Chooses Eau Claire Window Replacement

• ✓We grade openings one at a time instead of averaging a house. Most Eau Claire quotes price twenty-two windows identically; ours shows which six actually need to go and what the rest need instead.
• ✓We know what the old rental weatherization standard put on these houses and how to read it. A triple-track storm bought to clear a 1998 closing is a thermal component, and we test it before recommending anything.
• ✓We repair storms, balances, rollers and weatherstrip as ordinary work rather than as a way of avoiding a sale. On roughly half the houses we survey, the correct answer costs a fraction of a replacement quote.
• ✓We install to the water. Sill pan with dammed ends under every unit, head flashing lapped by the drainage plane, low-expansion foam behind backer rod, and weeps demonstrated with water before the crew leaves your property.

The standards behind screens and combination storm units

Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The screens and combination storm units work we do in Eau Claire follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.

Every screens and combination storm units project in Eau Claire gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.

Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free screens and combination storm units free estimate in Eau Claire, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.

Related Services

• Energy-Efficient Window Replacement
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