Question: I need no-maintenance replacement windows that tilt in for easy cleaning, don’t sweat and will cut my utility bills. I thought about vinyl windows, but I hear they are cheap and low quality.

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Dear Jim: I need no-maintenance replacement windows that tilt-in for easy cleaning, don't sweat and will cut my utility bills. I thought about vinyl windows, but I hear they are cheap and low quality.

We have some cheap vinyl windows that probably date from the 1980s in our SS brick house. They annoy the wife to no end, and she keeps asking about replacements. I’ve read somewhere that American ...