I am searching for aluminum jamb liners for my double hung sash windows. These are really fine old windows, never painted, with diamond panes in upper sash. In 1996 I purchased inexpensive liners at Menards. They were rolled aluminum with a center tube spring type balance, cut to length by the installer. They functioned perfectly with my full dimension lumber (1917 Craftsman home). This fall I ordered vinyl liners (it’s all I could find), my installer tore out the parting bead, removed the sashes, cut the cords, dropped the weights, foamed the boxes for insulation (my original goal)…..and the sashes don’t fit the liners because of the flange on the stop edges (part of the extruded plastic design). Sashes are too tight to glide and we can’t get the unit back in the opening without a lot of force. I cannot bear to have them sanded to fit a vinyl jamb liner. I need friction free, flange free aluminum! Posting from Wisconsin and IT IS GETTING COLD! HELP ME FIND A SOURCE PLEASE.
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Rx
i would contact Blaine Hardware. They got alot of window parts.
Blaine Hardware
Thanks Calvin but the liners they carry are rigid extruded liners--and have no flex at all. My full dimension windows are much too tight. The aluminum liners had no friction, and the center balance system was enough to keep the sashes up.
I think it's fairly normal to need to somehow machine the edges of the sashes when installing jamb liners.
Jamb Liners
Try Fenster. I got their vinyl jamb liners. I didn't notice aluminum on their site but they do fabricate and replicate.