Looking for windows in Mt. Lebanon? Ireland Contracting is a Pittsburgh window company installing replacement windows across Pittsburgh and Western PA: Pella wood-clad, Marvin wood, and ProVia vinyl units, measured to your openings and installed by our own crews rather than a subcontractor. From replacing a single leaking window to new windows for the whole house, the result is a draft-free fit, clean trim inside and out, and lower heating bills through a Pittsburgh winter.
Mt. Lebanon's houses are older than Allegheny County's as a whole: the median home here was built in 1953, and nearly a third of the municipality's houses predate 1940. Ireland Contracting roofs, sides, and replaces windows on those brick and stone Tudors and Colonials, with Owens Corning Platinum Preferred roofing crews and a repair technician who handles the small jobs older houses generate.
Many Mt. Lebanon homes still have original wood sashes on rope-and-pulley weights, or early vinyl inserts that have fogged. Openings in houses this age are rarely square, so every window is measured individually, and anything built before 1978 is handled under EPA lead-safe work practices.
Most of the windows we replace are original to the house: rope-and-pulley wood sashes in Mt. Lebanon, Bellevue, and Squirrel Hill, or first-generation vinyl from the 1990s that has fogged between the panes. Either way, the symptoms are the same: drafts you can feel from the couch, condensation on the inside glass, sashes that won't stay up, and a furnace that runs all night. A modern double- or triple-pane window with low-E glass and an argon fill fixes all of it at once.
We install three brands so the frame material matches the house and the budget. ProVia vinyl is the value choice for most homes: low-maintenance, well insulated, and backed by a lifetime transferable warranty. Pella wood-clad windows give you real wood inside with an aluminum exterior that never needs painting, which suits the region's brick and stone homes. Marvin wood windows are for historic and custom work where the profile and the species matter. We'll show you all three side by side and tell you which we'd put in your house.
Full-frame or insert? An insert (pocket) replacement keeps your existing frame and trim and is the faster, less expensive route when the old frame is sound. A full-frame replacement removes everything down to the rough opening so we can inspect and reflash the sill, the right call when there's rot, water staining, or you want to change the window size. We check the frames on the measure visit and recommend one or the other, not both.
One thing we don't do: window repair. We don't replace glass, reglaze sashes, or fix balances on existing units. If a window has failed, we replace the whole unit properly rather than patching it, and we'll tell you honestly if it's only one or two windows that need it.
Why Mt. Lebanon homeowners choose Ireland Contracting for windows
- Pella, Marvin, and ProVia replacement windows
- Installed by our own crews, not subcontractors
- Insert or full-frame replacement, recommended per window
- Double- and triple-pane, low-E, argon-filled glass packages
- Interior and exterior trim finished in Azek or aluminum wrap
- Licensed PA #026195, free itemized estimates since 1994
Ireland Contracting also provides windows in nearby Dormont, Castle Shannon, Scott Township. Learn more about our windows services or view everything we offer in Mt. Lebanon.