Window Hardware - Trim

Window trim hardware: the small plate with an outsized fit problem

Window trim hardware from this Rocky Mountain group sits behind a tilt-turn handle, closing the small gap where the spindle crosses from lever to sash. Rectangular offers four sizes, Metro two, and every one pours in bronze, not the painted aluminum a window maker typically bundles with the sash itself. Between the two shapes, most tilt-turn installations find a matching option without a special order.

Four Rectangular sizes track sash width

Four Rectangular plates step up from about 3 inches at the short end to roughly 4 1/2 at the long end, two more sizes filling the space between. Order length against the sash actually installed, since guessing wrong leaves a strip of the mounting area behind the handle uncovered once the plate is set. A tape measure against the existing sash settles the choice faster than eyeballing four similar-looking plates side by side.

Metro trims the choices to two

Metro Tilt & Turn Trim sticks to two lengths, both near 4 1/2 inches, changing mainly in width rather than dropping down to Rectangular's smaller options. That shorter list suits a build already settled on one or two window sizes throughout, since fewer choices means less chance of grabbing the wrong plate for a given opening. Fewer sizes also means faster restocking if a plate turns up damaged during install.

Buying trim for a full window job

Swapping a single handle only needs one plate sized to that opening, but a house replacing several tilt-and-turn windows at once gains from settling on one profile everywhere instead of mixing Rectangular and Metro across the project. Buying every plate a job needs from one purchase also keeps the bronze tone consistent window to window, since a separate reorder risks a slightly different cast batch. Keeping one packing slip for the whole order also makes any later warranty question far easier to sort out.