What's inside the Marvin Essential Windows Technical Specifications Catalog

Marvin Essential is the brand's all-fiberglass production-rate window-and-door collection — full Marvin architectural construction at builder-spec pricing. The 40-page Technical Specifications catalog is the architect-and-contractor reference: dimensional grids, egress compliance, altitude-installation guidelines, sound-transmission ratings, and detailed cross-sections covering every product family in the line.

Featured collections

Marvin Essential — extruded fiberglass frame and sash with factory-applied exterior color and Energy Star certifications across product families.
Double Hung Equal Sash / Cottage / Reverse Cottage — three sash-proportion variants with full egress-compliance tables.
Single Hung Reverse Cottage — egress-tracked single-hung family.
Glider & Glider 2 Wide — horizontal-slider window series with rough-opening, frame-size, and daylight-opening grids; National Egress Code flagged units.
Direct Glaze Round Top (RT1 True Half Round, RT2 True Half Above Springline) — half-round and arched window configurations with multiple-assembly diagrams.
Direct Glaze Specialty Shapes — 90-degree triangles, trapezoids, isosceles triangles, pentagons, 90-degree rectangles, octagons.
Casement Picture & Transom — large-format direct-glaze with altitude-rated tables.
Essential Sliding Patio Door — three-panel XOO, OOX, OXO configurations plus matched direct-glaze transoms.
Grilles-Between-the-Glass (GBG) — Rectangular, Prairie, 2w2h, 2w1h, Equal Lite, Cottage Lite patterns for windows; 10/12 Lite, 15/18 Lite, Prairie, and Cottage Lite for sliding doors.

What you'll find inside

The catalog documents Rough Opening (RO), Masonry Opening (MO), Frame Size (FS), and Daylight Opening (DLO) measurements in imperial and metric units; National Egress Code compliance flags (with optional window opening control devices per ASTM F2090-10); altitude guidelines for annealed vs tempered glass by unit size; STC and OITC sound-transmission ratings for casement, awning, single hung, double hung, glider, and sliding patio door product lines; head-jamb, sill, and side-jamb cross-section drawings for each product family; and standard mulled assembly limitations.

Across 40 pages, the technical reference covers every Essential product family — multiple double-hung sash variants, glider and 2-wide glider, half-round and arched RT1/RT2 round-tops, polygon specialty shapes (triangle, trapezoid, pentagon, octagon), specialty casements, transoms, and three-panel sliding patio doors — all engineered around the same all-fiberglass platform.

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