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alan
Citizen
Username: Alan
Post Number: 95
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 5:50 pm: |     |
I know this has been discussed before so please forgive me, but does anyone have experience wiht pella replacement windows? I'm interestedin info about the windows themselves as well as pella as installers. |
jgberkeley
Supporter
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3229
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 5:59 pm: | |
Yes,
I've installed over 45 of them now.
What is the question?
You can DIY, I can do them in about an hour.
Pella has installers. |
alan
Citizen
Username: Alan
Post Number: 96
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:23 pm: | |
i was just wondering if the windows are as high quality as they are touted to be and if you could feel a difference in terms of insulation. also, i was wondering if their installers are the way to go. what you said about diy is interesting. i am not totally incompetant at such things but i'm a pretty sloppy worker, and would be worried about the results. i will explore the option, however. thanks. |
Michael K. Mc Kell
Citizen
Username: Greenerose
Post Number: 69
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:48 pm: | |
Pella makes a great replacement window and yes there is a difference in the insulation, however installation is key here.
Any contractor can install them and realitivly easy as mentioned above.
Pella will only measure if they install.
There windows fit nice w/o disturbing interior / exterior trim. (In most cases)
Michael K. Mc Kell
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alan
Citizen
Username: Alan
Post Number: 98
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 8:48 am: | |
thanks. i was just going through the attic reading up on this and i saw how much you have discussed this matter, george. are you still doing installations? |
jgberkeley
Supporter
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3230
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 9:21 am: | |
I can be talked into it, but I have a day job these days. Time becomes an issue.
Better yet, I can teach you. I can show you and help you measure the first couple, I can help you with the order and you can have my discount (I've ordered so many I picked up a contractors discount), and I can help you with the first one or two installations.
Then you go DIY and I answer questions.
Would that work for you? |
joy
Citizen
Username: Joy
Post Number: 119
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 12:53 pm: | |
We bought our first 3 Pella windows at the Pella store in Springfield. Pella DID come out and measure even though my husband was goining to install them. The 1st window he did took 12 hours, the second 8 and the third 5 hours - that's from the start of prep to the end of clean up. He's a perfectionist. We went back to purchase the next set of 8 at Pella, when husband recalled seeing Pella windows at Lowes. Went to Lowes - same grad of window - different name - $900 less then Pella. Bought windows at Lowes. They came out and measured and then delivered them. |
1-2many
Citizen
Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 476
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 1:11 pm: | |
I hope you mean the price was $900 less of the total, not $900 less per window?!
what was the brand you bought at lowe's? true divided light? other features? thanks!! |
joy
Citizen
Username: Joy
Post Number: 122
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2003 - 8:32 am: | |
$900 less of the total. About $125 less per window. Not a true divided light -they were way out of our price range. The Pella 'brand' at Lowes was the 8000 series - I think - I have to find the paperwork and check. It was the same window as Pella's Architecture series. |
1-2many
Citizen
Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 484
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2003 - 10:14 am: | |
I was assuming based on what I have read that Pella's were around $500 for a 30" x 60" - is this your experience? also, what did installation run?
we bought some hybrid vinyl w/wood veneer interiors for some replaced windows, and while they do look good and are an improvement over the mismatched bargain basement windows they replaced, I don't love them. So I am exploring these higher-grade options for other windows that need replacing. thanks for all your information. |
jgberkeley
Supporter
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3231
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2003 - 10:57 am: | |
Are the Pella windows sold at Lowes the custom made insert windows? Me thinks that they are the new frame windows made to fixed sizes. |
alan
Citizen
Username: Alan
Post Number: 99
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2003 - 11:42 am: | |
George, I really appreciate the offer but i don't want to do them myself for a whole bunch of reasons but primarily because I don't think the quality will be as good. i'm not a very neat or efficient worker.
also, i don't get paid when i don't work and frankly i think i'll end up missing enough work putting in windows to lose more money than I saved doing it myself.
the Lowe's issue is interesting and I will look into that. |
joy
Citizen
Username: Joy
Post Number: 123
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2003 - 12:14 pm: | |
Yes - they are the custom made insert ones. Lowes sent out a contractor to measure for $25.
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maaaa
Citizen
Username: Maaaa
Post Number: 89
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2003 - 4:05 pm: | |
Where's the nearest Lowes? |
Maplewoody
Citizen
Username: Maplewoody
Post Number: 333
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 10:45 am: | |
We ordered 2 Pella Storm doors from the Flanders' Lowes. It's a little over a 30 min drive out Rt 80, and then south on Rt 206 about 1 1/2 miles. They were installed on Thursday, and I recommend them! They took the $25 (measuring fee) off the order. |
joy
Citizen
Username: Joy
Post Number: 124
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 9:17 pm: | |
We went to the Lowes in Pistataway (sp?) - 25 mins south of here off rt 287. |
us2innj
Citizen
Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 859
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, October 27, 2003 - 5:22 am: | |
Is there a better way to get to Lowe's in Piscataway than the one I am using? I take the GSP to Rt 1 West to 287 North. |
joy
Citizen
Username: Joy
Post Number: 125
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, October 27, 2003 - 8:26 pm: | |
Don't remember which way we took - didn't get one Rt 1 - maybe we took 78 to 287 or 24 to 287... |
tourne
Citizen
Username: Tourne
Post Number: 215
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 1, 2003 - 10:07 pm: | |
alan,
See www.nfrc.org for info on windows and how they are rated. Also, while you are in the attic, take a look around at the insulation, air leakage, signs of condensation, etc. Depending on your reasons for putting in new windows, while you should go with the best that you can afford, new windows will generally not make a huge difference in energy efficiency and will cost a lot of money. |
alan
Citizen
Username: Alan
Post Number: 101
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 3, 2003 - 4:49 pm: | |
thanks tourne. efficiency is one reason for the desired change. my wife is hyperventialting abotu that and I keep telling her it will barely be noticed. a few of our windows look pretty shabby and none of them operate all that well, either. |
virgilian
Citizen
Username: Virgilian
Post Number: 91
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 12:23 am: | |
yucky, yucky
replacement windows.
Fix your old sash!
How long have they lasted already?
I hope you replacers don't move to my street. |
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