My wife and I are considering replacement windows for our house.

I'm not interested in having every window company in the city calling us with their best deal, but I really want to know what I'm looking at from a cost perspective.

We have 16 windows in the house, most are about 35 inches wide and some are a little taller than others. 1 is a small closet window.

They're you're average size vinyl clad double pain windows and I'd assume we'd replace with something along the same lines.

Any help would be much appreciated.

John

jduke44

We just signed a contract with a company to replace all our windows in the house. I didn't want to go to the expense and boy were they pricey but we won't have to do them again. I'd be curious in what others have to say but in the meant time I will put my 2 cents in.

It depends on what kind of place you go with as to what kind of info your going to get. This company took 3 hrs to demonstrate their product. Some may not take that long to go over product. There are some things you will have to consider when doing this:

What area do you live in (weather-wise)
How long do you plan to live there
What are you trying to accomplish with these windows

For example, we have alot of drafts coming through the windows. Even though the insulation isn't that great, we thought the windows will help alot in our fuel bills (we live in the Northeast)

I won't tell you exactly, but I will tell you we arespending over 10k (which is way over our budget but worth it)

You may not expect to pay as much depending on what you want to accomplish.

Hope this helps

klmgb

I just got 10 windows replace with vinyl replacement windows and I paid about 300.00 per. Lifetime warranty, nice, double pane with whatever that gas is they put in them. This was middle road as far as the company I went with. Don't plan on being in this house more than another 5-10 years. Hopefully they'll last that long

jduke44

Yeah, they should last. That is probably about average for a company installing them. Ours were a little pricey but they are filled with krypton which they claim is better than argon (which is probably what klmgb's are filled with). Either way you might want to go with a little more than a home depot window or something to keep the heat in in winter and cold in in the summer. Good luck.

klmgb

By the way, I live in a planned subdivision, all houses built about the same time, about the same. I stopped at a a couple of houses that had the window replacement signs out front and asked them how they felt about the companies they used, took all that info in, did a little research asked a few friends, then decided. Took the company all of 8 hours to replace all of them, That includes the time they had to wait on the ambulance because one of the guys cut himself pretty good when a chunk of glass fell out of the frame and sliced his wrist. (make sure they have insurance)

skiberger

If your handy why not trying to repalce them yourself? They are not to hard to install. On most of them, 4 screws hold the window unit in.

stew_1962

I replaced 17 windows in my house for about $4500.

Double hung, low-e, etc....

Took me a day and a half - would have been less, but I have 3 HUGE picture windows. (4x5 feet), they took a little while longer

I estimate I save about 50-60% of the installed cost - I have a quote for about $9500, but the windows I chose to install myself were higher quality than the ones had quoted. A friend of mine had the companythat quoted me do his... wishes he went the way I did, but I do excellent work (HEHEHEHE).

Good luck.

bgolfer66

Thanks for the response. Was the $300 the cost of the windows only or windows and installation?

Tommyp!972

i had 23 windows installed with transferrable lifetime warranty...it includes free replacement of even the screen and labor IS covered in my contract approx $600 per window installed..they are the Simonton Renovations 6500..included the insulation and trim and vacuuming of my rugs around each window..which they did without question..so much better than the old single pane rope and weight windows..good luck and if i had the time and knowledge of bending trim i'd done it myself to save the labor also..

pmed70

john,
im an installer in the northeast i can tell you the window will cost you between $160 - $240 each depending on your options, Low-E glass, argon filled, dbl locks, full or half screen, dividers????, then avg install is $100 - $150
per window total avg is about $360 each installed, if your handy you could do them yourself take about 1/2 hr each for experienced, about 1 hr inexperienced per window, no matter what the key is to make sure these windows get sealed properly, these prices are providing there is minimal work on the inner and outer trim.