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How long will my project take?
Is it okay to install vinyl siding or shingle roofing in the winter?
Why should I spend money on new windows?
Window companies say they have the “best” window?
What are the criteria by which I should measure new windows?
How long will my project take?
Once we have your order in hand, a team of professionals begins the production planning. The Production Department first schedules a visit to your home to confirm the measurements and quantities needed for ordering materials. Work specifications for each trade skill are broken down onto separate work orders. Permits and applications, including required drawings, have to be completed and filed with the appropriate building departments. Purchase orders are prepared and sent to each vendor supplying materials. When all the paper work is done, your order is put onto the work schedule, awaiting the availability of the appropriate crew or crews to begin production. Generally only three things come between this point and the beginning of your project: work currently in progress, work scheduled prior to yours, and the unpredictability of Mother Nature. Once the work is started on your home it is our company’s policy to proceed to completion. It’s important for each homeowner to understand that our concern is much the same as yours: the successful completion of our contract.
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Is it okay to install vinyl siding or shingle roofing in the winter?
In the hands of an experienced professional, and with a few exceptions, it is acceptable to install vinyl siding during the winter months. The primary exception is coastal high wind areas.
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Why should I spend money on new windows?
It’s likely you’re reading about windows for one of the following reasons: You’re spending a great deal of money on heating your home. You’re cold when you sit in your favorite chair next to a window. You found out how much your painter is charging to paint each window. You just tried to clean a window. You lifted a window with a broken sash cord and learned how a guillotine works. Your neighbor was recently bragging about their new windows. In other words, the money you spend on new windows is an investment in comfort, cost savings, and pride of home ownership.
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Window companies say they have the “best” window?
The word “BEST” as used in most advertising is most likely rhetoric, a ploy to make the reader believe the product has passed some extraordinary test. No one window manufacturing company makes the best window for all homes & buildings. Each home, in fact, each side of each home, has different needs. In New England, for example, the northeast side is the windy side. On this side, air infiltration is an important concern. Alternatively, the southeast side needs special glazing to fend off infrared radiation from the sun. The real goal of each homeowner is to find the BEST VALUE in windows for their home. This value is found in the right combination of resistance to air infiltration, UV rays, conduction, convection, and condensation, with the style and location of your home kept in mind.
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What are the criteria by which I should measure new windows?
You want to know: How much cold air will leak into my home when the wind blows (AL)? How much of summer’s heat or winter’s cold will conduct through the surface of my new window’s structure (SHGC)? How much noise will resonate through my new windows (STF)? How much of the heat that I am paying to produce in my house can I stop from escaping (U-Factor)? How well will these new windows resist accumulating condensation on the inside as I “tighten up” my home (CRF)? How much visual light will I loose to make these gains (VLT)? Will these new windows block ultraviolet light (UVI)?
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