Slim-frame aluminum windows in a warm interior

Aluminum Windows · Winnipeg, Manitoba

Aluminum Windows in Winnipeg.

Thermally broken aluminum windows for Winnipeg builders and homeowners, sealed tight enough to hold a room's heat when the wind chill runs harder than the air temperature ever does.

In short

In Winnipeg's NBC zone 7A cold, effective temperature at a window runs lower than the thermometer once prairie wind gets involved, so a frame's air-sealing matters as much as its U-factor. Crateworks sources a low U-factor, triple-pane, warm-edge unit built for that, factory-direct.

Built for Winnipeg’s climate

Winnipeg's cold isn't just cold, it's cold with wind behind it. Flat, open prairie gives wind nothing to break against before it reaches a wall, so a still minus twenty reads as a wind chill deep into the minus thirties or worse, and that wind finds every gap in a frame's seal, not just the glass. That's why air-sealing and a genuine thermal break carry as much weight here as U-factor and triple-pane glazing, a window that's well insulated but leaks air at the frame still loses to a Winnipeg wind. Older Wolseley and Crescentwood character homes often carry original wood-frame windows that were never built for this, drafty at the sash long before the glass itself is the problem. New builds in Tuxedo and River Heights face the same wind exposure, just without a century-old sash to blame it on.

Climate zone
NBC Zone 7A (very cold)
Best time to spec
May to July
What we plan for
extreme prairie cold, wind chill, and a short build season

Why it suits Winnipeg

A wood sash swells and sticks through a wet spring, then shrinks and drafts through a dry, wind-driven winter, the swing that wrecks weatherstripping fastest in this climate. Aluminum with a PA66 polyamide thermal break and tight factory-sealed weatherstripping skips that failure mode, and stays sealed against wind a swollen or shrunk wood sash eventually can't stop. Sourcing direct is what puts a heavier frame profile and a genuine air-seal spec on the same budget a lighter standard unit would cost locally.

Container-direct delivery into Winnipeg and southern Manitoba.

How it ships to Winnipeg: Freight lands at the Port of Vancouver or Prince Rupert and rails across the prairies on CN's mainline, a genuinely long central-Canada haul.
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How it works

  1. 01

    Send your scope

    Drawings, a materials list, or a rough idea. No account, no obligation. Just tell us what the project needs.

  2. 02

    We source & spec

    We match products to your climate and local code, then price them factory-direct from vetted suppliers, not off a distributor's shelf.

  3. 03

    One delivered quote

    The whole schedule comes back as a single coordinated quote, delivered to Winnipeg. One order, one point of contact.

One source for the whole project

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Common questions

Yes. Wind chill is the number that matters here, not just air temperature, because open prairie exposure drives cold through any gap in a frame's seal. We spec air-sealing and a genuine thermal break as hard as we spec U-factor for exactly that reason.
Not for a custom order. We build to the opening you send us, so a century home with a non-standard sash size gets a frame that fits it exactly, not a nearest-standard-size compromise.
It puts Winnipeg among the colder building zones in the country, which is why triple-pane and a low U-factor are the baseline spec here, not an upgrade option.
Given the short outdoor build window here, ordering in late winter or early spring protects your spot for a May through July install instead of pushing it into fall.

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Send drawings or a rough scope. We quote the Winnipeg delivered price, all-in.

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