Edina Window Repair, Restoration & Replacement Service

In the Country Club District an exterior change can be subject to review, which makes restoration the practical route as well as the better one: the original sash is freed, re-corded, re-glazed around its surviving glass, weatherstripped and refinished, and the elevation looks exactly as it did. In the post-war neighbourhoods the work is usually a failed insulated glass unit or worn hardware, replaced without touching the frame. Since the 2000s Edina has also seen extensive rebuilding, and those newer houses are now old enough for their first seal failures. We serve 55410, 55416, 55424, 55435, 55436 and 55439.

The windows in Edina’s older neighbourhoods are a large part of why the houses look the way they do. Steel casements, leaded and art-glass panels and true divided-light timber sash are all common in the Country Club District and the streets around it, and none of them can be reproduced by a stock replacement window. Steel casements in particular are frequently written off when they are entirely repairable: they rust at the glazing rebate and swell, which is what jams them, and cleaning them back, treating the metal, re-glazing and re-hanging brings them back into use.

Finish matching matters more here than almost anywhere. On a house where the windows define the elevation, a single sash in an approximate colour is visible from the street, so we match stains, paints and clad colours rather than getting close. Edina’s post-war neighbourhoods need a completely different service — failed sealed units and worn hardware on sound frames — and the extensive rebuilding since the 2000s has now produced a third category of house just old enough for its first seal failures. We work across all three.

The classic homes around the Country Club District and 50th & France were built to last, but a century of Minnesota winters is unforgiving on original windows and doors. Repeated freeze-thaw cycles crack glazing, swing seasons swell and shrink wood frames, and summer humidity leaves condensation sitting on interior glass. In Edina our instinct is to preserve: a free on-site assessment first, then a careful repair that keeps the look of the house intact instead of a full replacement wherever we can manage it. Most of what we take on in Hennepin County is completed in one visit, cleaned up when we finish, and backed by the quality of our work.

Apex Window Werks also serves nearby St. Louis Park, Bloomington, Richfield and Minneapolis.