Casement & Awning Windows

Casement and awning windows from Windows USA® are built from virgin vinyl — brand-new PVC with no recycled scrap mixed in, the highest grade available — for better insulation, a longer lifespan, and a window that holds its color and shape for decades without warping or fading.

Is a Casement or Awning Window Right for Your Home?

Casements earn their place in the rooms other windows struggle with. Side-hinged operation means one hand on the crank opens the sash fully — no lifting, no reaching — and the open sash acts as a scoop for passing breezes, which makes the casement the strongest ventilator we build. Closed, it is the tightest: the sash compresses against a multi-point weather seal on all four sides instead of sliding past a joint, and the multi-point locking system pulls it snug at more than one spot along the frame. Choose a casement for:

• Hard-to-reach openings — over the kitchen sink, a counter, or a bathtub, where lifting a sash means leaning across something.
• Rooms that need real airflow — the full opening ventilates, not just half of it.
• Walls facing weather or noise — the compression seal is the reason casements out-seal nearly every other operating style.
• Tall, narrow openings — the proportions casements were made for, with Uniframe twin and triple options for wider walls.

The awning configuration is the same window hinged at the top, and it solves one specific problem well: ventilation during rain. Open at the bottom, the glass sheds water like a canopy while air keeps moving — useful in bathrooms, basements, and anywhere you would otherwise close up at the first drizzle.

If the house’s architecture calls for the classic American look — two sashes, traditional proportions, tilt-in cleaning — that is the double-hung, and it remains the most popular window in the country for a reason. And where a wall opens onto a patio or deck, a sliding patio door fills the opening as part of a broader window project.

Whichever style fits the room, the window underneath is the same: custom-built to your measurements in Hot Springs, Arkansas, from virgin vinyl, with Cardinal Low-E 366 glass, argon fill, and Intercept® spacers. A consultant can help you match style to room at the free in-home estimate.

Living With Crank Hardware

The crank is what makes a casement effortless, and it is also the part homeowners ask about most. Modern operators are geared low, so a hand that struggles with a stuck sash can still open a casement fully — one reason this style is often chosen for accessibility. The multi-point locking system engages from a single handle: one motion pulls the sash against its seal at several points along the frame at once, rather than asking one latch in the middle to do all the holding. Because the mechanism lives inside the frame, the sight lines stay clean, and the beveled exterior main-frame keeps the outside face looking finished rather than industrial.

Maintenance asks little. Vinyl needs no paint and no scraping; the UV inhibitor in the material keeps the color from fading or chalking under Southern sun. The moving parts want an occasional cleaning of the track and hinge area, which takes minutes with the sash swung open — the same position that puts both faces of the glass within reach from inside the room.

Twin, Triple, and Mixed Openings

Wide walls do not have to mean fixed glass. Uniframe twin and triple configurations join two or three casements in one factory-built frame — no site-assembled mullions to leak or mismatch — so a broad opening keeps a single clean grid of operating windows. A common pattern pairs a fixed center pane with cranking casements either side: uninterrupted view in the middle, full ventilation at the edges. Because every unit is built to the opening’s measurements rather than adapted from a stock size, the proportions come out even across the set, which is what makes a multi-window wall look intentional instead of assembled.

Awnings mix in, too. Set an awning below or above a larger unit and it becomes the ventilator for the wall — open in weather that would close every other window in the house.