Original Wood Windows,
Saved Not Replaced
Century homes in Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, Lakewood, and Ohio City were built with wood sash worth keeping. We scrape, re-glaze, prime, and hand-brush every window, refinish the storms off the house, and publish the price per window.
The Cavelli Standard
Every Window, The Same Six Steps
Restoration is not a heavier repaint. It is a different job, done in a fixed order, and skipping any step is how a window peels again in three summers. Here is exactly what each opening gets.
Included on Every Restored Window
- Pressure wash, then full dry time before any scraping
- Scrape all lifting and failed paint to sound wood
- Detail sand so the new coats lay flat
- Cracked and missing glazing compound cut out and replaced
- Oil primer on every bare or repaired surface
- Two finish coats, brushed by hand, clean two-color cut lines
Storms, Screens & Trim
The Parts Other Painters Skip
Wood storms and screens come off the house and get the full treatment on sawhorses: sanded, primed, painted, spray-glazed, then reinstalled square so they open next spring. Soffits, dentil, crown, and rotted decorative pieces are restored in the same pass — traced, rebuilt in our shop to the original profile, and painted to match.
See the full write-up with photos from a recent Cleveland Heights restoration on our project page.
Published Pricing
Priced Per Window, Not Per Visit
Labor prices below. Materials are billed at cost on top. Count your windows and storms and you have the estimate before we do.
Restored window, sash and trim
$506 per window
Wash, scrape to sound wood, detail sand, re-glaze, prime, two brushed finish coats
Storm window or screen, refinished
$75 per piece
Pulled, sanded, primed, painted, and spray-glazed off the house — most windows carry two storms and a screen ($225)
Complete restored window unit
$731
Sash and trim plus three storm pieces — the number to multiply by your window count
Soffit and trim, scraped, primed, two coats
$150 per linear foot
$125 per foot in one color; dentil, crown, and plain profiles priced the same
Storm door, refinished
$300 each
Sanded, primed, two coats
Repaint-only window (sound paint)
$75 one color · $150 two colors
For comparison — clean, scuff sand, spot prime, two coats, storms left in place
Whole-house pressure wash is $1,500 flat and comes first. Three owner quality checks (after prep, after primer, final walkthrough) are on every job. The full East Side exterior price list is in our Cleveland Heights cost guide.
Window Questions
What Century-Home Owners Ask Us
Should I restore or replace my old wood windows?
Restore, almost every time. Old-growth wood sash outlasts any vinyl replacement, keeps the house looking like itself, and costs less per opening than a quality replacement window installed. Replacement makes sense only when the sash itself is rotted through, which is rarer than window salesmen suggest.
Do you pull the storms and screens?
Yes — every one comes off the house, gets sanded, primed, painted, and spray-glazed on sawhorses, then goes back on square. Painting storms in place is how they seize shut.
How do I know if my windows need restoration or just paint?
Look at the north and lake-facing sides. Paint lifting off the sash, glazing compound cracked or missing, or bare wood at the corners means restoration. Sound paint that is just dull or chalky is a repaint at a fraction of the price. We tell you which one honestly, per side of the house.
Can you match the original colors and profiles?
That is the point of the work. Two-color schemes are brushed by hand with clean cut lines, and rotted decorative pieces — eave brackets, trim returns — are traced, rebuilt in our shop to the original profile, and painted to match.
We restore windows across Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, Lakewood, Cleveland, and Chagrin Falls — or pair it with a full exterior repaint.
Old Windows Peeling?
Send a photo of the worst one to 440-382-5701. We will tell you honestly whether it needs restoration or just paint, usually within 24 hours.