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2020-09-30 13:56:30
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I have (at least consciously) never seen forty-year-old plastic windows - but quite a few twenty-year-old ones that already look as if they had been sanded down. I know that forty-five-year-old aluminum windows still look like new even up close. In theory, they would still look that way for much longer. Nevertheless, fifty-year-old aluminum windows are already due for replacement because until the late sixties they still had single-piece profiles without thermal separation between the outside and inside, which unfortunately cannot be retrofitted - at least not concerning the opening sashes. Current profiles have this two-part design, which also allows the color inside to be chosen differently from the outside, without having to work with films.
Wood-aluminum windows are, in good quality, more expensive than "pure aluminum" (for which wood decor films also exist). PVC - I have already explained this here in detail, but I currently don’t have time to find the exact passage - owes its introduction as a window construction material to four banal circumstances: 1. it does not rot like wooden windows, which tenants paint too infrequently; 2. woodworking and plastic processing both belong to the carpenter guild and can be processed (merely with different attachments) on basically the same machines; 3. aluminum profiles were still single-piece at the time of this realization, so an entire generation of aluminum window frames is known as "cold"; 4. the average consumer and Krombacher commercial viewer knows that tropical wood is politically incorrect. Fifth, for the average earner, aluminum windows focus on "better earners" price-wise, whereas PVC windows are priced very competitively. Between list and offer prices, aluminum vs. PVC easily shifts from 120:100 to 118:70 (advantage: PVC), which is an argument.
Long story short, specifically for the OP: I recommend Gealan (solid quality also from the processing companies, the color here is not applied as a foil but melted on in the extrusion process, unfortunately the same on both profile sides) and aluminum for the stress elements (exterior doors, garage door, sliding windows). Aluminum all around will bring you only plus points in resale, the more your house belongs in the "Jette" category - in the "Maxime" category so-so and in the "Flair" category you would basically have to write off the extra cost.
Wood-aluminum windows are, in good quality, more expensive than "pure aluminum" (for which wood decor films also exist). PVC - I have already explained this here in detail, but I currently don’t have time to find the exact passage - owes its introduction as a window construction material to four banal circumstances: 1. it does not rot like wooden windows, which tenants paint too infrequently; 2. woodworking and plastic processing both belong to the carpenter guild and can be processed (merely with different attachments) on basically the same machines; 3. aluminum profiles were still single-piece at the time of this realization, so an entire generation of aluminum window frames is known as "cold"; 4. the average consumer and Krombacher commercial viewer knows that tropical wood is politically incorrect. Fifth, for the average earner, aluminum windows focus on "better earners" price-wise, whereas PVC windows are priced very competitively. Between list and offer prices, aluminum vs. PVC easily shifts from 120:100 to 118:70 (advantage: PVC), which is an argument.
Long story short, specifically for the OP: I recommend Gealan (solid quality also from the processing companies, the color here is not applied as a foil but melted on in the extrusion process, unfortunately the same on both profile sides) and aluminum for the stress elements (exterior doors, garage door, sliding windows). Aluminum all around will bring you only plus points in resale, the more your house belongs in the "Jette" category - in the "Maxime" category so-so and in the "Flair" category you would basically have to write off the extra cost.