Steel Casement Window Restoration in the Bronx

Metal Man Restoration restores steel casement windows for Bronx apartment houses, Art Deco buildings, lofts, and townhouses. With over a century of combined experience in steel casement work, we strip, repair, weatherproof, and refinish original steel windows so they operate and seal properly again instead of being torn out and replaced with something the building was never designed for.

Bronx Steel Windows We Restore

Steel casement was the window of choice when much of the Bronx went up. The Grand Concourse Art Deco corridor is full of it, and so are the apartment houses built through the same decades across the borough. The work usually falls into a few categories:

• Art Deco apartment house windows along and around the Grand Concourse
• Prewar building casements that have rusted, seized, or stopped sealing
• Institutional and civic building steel including schools and houses of worship
• Loft and industrial steel sash in converted buildings
• Residential casements in Riverdale, Fieldston, and the historic districts

What Steel Window Restoration Involves

We strip old paint and corrosion back to sound steel, repair or replace failed sections, free and rebuild the operating hardware, re-glaze where needed, then prime and finish the steel and reinstate the weather seal. The goal is a window that opens, closes, latches, and keeps weather out, with the original profiles intact.

Why Restore Steel Casement Windows Instead of Replacing Them?

Original steel sections are far slimmer than modern replacements, which is why a replacement window in a prewar opening always looks heavier and wrong. In a designated historic district, replacement may not be permitted at all. Restoration keeps the sightlines, keeps the original steel, and is frequently less expensive than a like-for-like custom replacement.

Metal Man’s Steel and Landmark Experience

Our landmark record includes the bronze plaques we restored for the New York Yankees and Skanska, displayed at Babe Ruth Plaza and the Bronx County Courthouse, along with work at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House and Yale’s Harkness Tower. Steel casement restoration draws on the same discipline: keep the original, meet current requirements, document the work. See the steel casement window restoration overview.

Neighborhoods We Serve Across the Bronx

The Grand Concourse and its side streets hold the borough’s densest concentration of steel casement. Mott Haven, Longwood, Morrisania, Riverdale, and Fieldston all have buildings with original steel worth saving. Our Mount Vernon shop is just north of the line, which matters on a project where sash move back and forth.

Common Questions About Steel Window Restoration in the Bronx

These are the questions Bronx boards, owners, and architects ask before committing to restoration over replacement.

Can rusted steel casement windows be saved?

Usually, yes. Surface rust and even significant corrosion can be cut back to sound steel and repaired. Windows are written off far more often than they need to be, which is why an assessment comes before any recommendation.

Will restored windows open and seal properly?

That is the point of the work. Hardware is freed or rebuilt, frames are trued, and the weather seal is reinstated, so the window operates and closes against weather the way it originally did.

Is restoration allowed in a landmark building?

Restoration is generally the preferred approach in a designated building, and replacement is the option more likely to face objection. Work affecting a landmark exterior can require a permit from the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and we help confirm that first.

Do you handle large commercial window projects?

Yes. Whole-building steel casement programs are phased so the building stays occupied and weathertight while the work moves through it.

Is restoration cheaper than replacement?

Often, particularly against custom replacements matching original steel profiles. It also avoids the approval risk that comes with replacing windows in a designated district.

For Manhattan buildings, see steel casement window restoration in Manhattan.

Restore Your Bronx Steel Windows

If your Bronx building has original steel casement windows that stick, leak, or have rusted, fill out the form below or call (914) 662-4218.

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Real projects from our own shop and job sites. Every one of these is work we did ourselves.

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