Every Window Service We Offer in Santa Ana, CA

Energy work on a Santa Ana window is two different jobs depending on the parcel. On a listed house the glass is largely fixed and the air leakage is not. On an undesignated postwar building you get the whole modern catalog and we use it.

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• low-E argon glass
• window air sealing
• interior storm windows
• U-factor and solar heat gain
• weatherstripping wood sash
• Title 24 window compliance
• NFRC rated windows
• warm edge spacer
• reduce heat gain windows
• historic building energy upgrade
• draft proofing old windows
• dual pane retrofit
• insulated glass upgrade
• window energy audit

Energy Efficient Windows & Air Sealing in Santa Ana, CA

We install a lot of vinyl in Santa Ana and we will argue against it on your house if the parcel is designated. Both of those statements are true at once, and knowing which one applies to your address is worth more than any brochure. Take the argument against first.

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• fusion welded vinyl frames
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• full frame vinyl installation
• multi chamber vinyl extrusion
• white vinyl windows
• rental property windows
• apartment window replacement
• vinyl slider windows
• vinyl double hung
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• reinforced meeting rail

Vinyl Window Replacement in Santa Ana, CA

Fiberglass is the product we reach for when replacement is genuinely permitted on an older Santa Ana house but the opening still has to look right. It costs meaningfully more than vinyl. The reason it earns the difference is dimensional and structural, not marketing.

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• fiberglass patio windows
• durable window frames
• fiberglass window installation
• historic compatible replacement
• rear elevation windows
• stiff window frames
• fiberglass casement
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Fiberglass Windows in Santa Ana, CA

Clad wood puts an aluminum or fiberglass skin on the weather side and leaves real wood facing the room. On a Santa Ana house it is either an excellent answer or an automatic problem, and which one it is depends entirely on whether anyone reviews your exterior. The problem first, because it surprises people who have already picked a colour.

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• true divided light windows
• douglas fir window sash
• mortise and tenon sash
• matching historic window profile
• stained interior windows
• fiberglass clad wood
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• milled window stock
• period correct windows
• craftsman house windows
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• clad window drainage

Wood & Clad-Wood Windows in Santa Ana, CA

Aluminum in Santa Ana means two entirely different windows. There is the steel and aluminum casement of the 1920s and 1930s that is often original and often protected, and there is the postwar residential slider that is neither. They call for opposite treatment.

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• thermally broken aluminum
• rust jacking metal sash
• anodized aluminum windows
• fluoropolymer powder coat
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• period metal casement hardware
• commercial aluminum windows
• single pane aluminum windows
• metal window restoration
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Aluminum & Steel Casement Windows in Santa Ana, CA

The double-hung is the window this city argues about. Most of Santa Ana's pre-war housing has them, most of the ones people call ruined are repairable, and on a designated property repair is generally the only version of the work that gets approved. Understand the mechanism and everything else follows.

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• sash cord replacement
• window weight and pulley repair
• sash reglazing
• epoxy wood sash repair
• parting bead replacement
• window sash balancing
• rope and weight windows
• restore old windows
• wood window repair
• single hung windows
• stuck window repair
• painted shut windows
• sash weatherstripping
• double hung replacement

Double-Hung Sash Restoration & Replacement in Santa Ana, CA

Casements swing out on hinges and awnings hinge at the top. In Santa Ana both show up in two eras that could not be further apart: pre-war steel and wood casements on the older streets, and modern crank units on everything built since. The pre-war ones come first because they are the ones people get wrong.

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• casement operator replacement
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• hinge and cam handle repair
• compression seal windows
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• kitchen awning window
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• metal casement reglazing
• out swing windows
• tilt and turn windows
• window crank hardware
• paired casement units

Casement & Awning Windows in Santa Ana, CA

The horizontal slider is the workhorse of the Santa Ana that got built after 1950, and almost none of it is designated. That makes this the page where the historic-district conversation mostly stops and the honest, unglamorous economics of rental and tract housing take over. Understand what you are looking at.

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• slider track repair
• pile weatherstrip replacement
• aluminum slider replacement
• vinyl sliding windows
• apartment slider windows
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• window screen for sliders
• two panel slider
• three panel slider
• rental window repair
• slider window installation
• bedroom slider egress

Sliding Windows in Santa Ana, CA

A bay projects in angled sections, a bow curves through several equal lites, and both are structural work rather than glass work. On a pre-war Santa Ana house the existing bay is usually the most photographed feature of the elevation, which changes how it should be approached. Start with what is already there.

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• knee bracket and corbel repair
• bay window flashing
• bay seat insulation
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• bay window header
• curved bow window
• bay window rot repair
• projecting window repair
• bay window installation
• window seat construction
• angled bay units
• bay soffit repair

Bay & Bow Windows in Santa Ana, CA

Fixed glass covers two very different jobs in this city. There is the modern picture window, which is simple, and there is the leaded, art glass or shaped architectural sash found in Santa Ana's pre-war houses, which is a specialist repair and almost never a replacement. Take the historic side first, because it is the one most at risk.

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• round top windows
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• wavy cylinder glass
• restoration glass
• tempered picture window
• large fixed glass
• transom window glass
• diamond quarry glass
• protective glazing panels
• architectural window shapes

Picture, Leaded & Architectural Glass in Santa Ana, CA

Egress is where building code and preservation actually collide, and Santa Ana has plenty of houses where they do. A bedroom needs an emergency escape opening of a certain size, and a hundred-year-old sash was not built to that number. Both rules are real.

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• 24 inch net clear height
• 20 inch net clear width
• 44 inch sill height
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• basement egress window
• garage conversion windows
• attic conversion egress
• window opening enlargement
• header sizing for windows
• net clear opening
• CRC egress requirements
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Egress Windows & Code Compliance in Santa Ana, CA

Santa Ana does not get hurricanes. We keep this page because people search for impact windows here anyway, and because the thing they usually want is real even though the product name attached to it is wrong for this city. Say the plain part first.

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• laminated glass windows
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• forced entry resistance
• PVB interlayer glass
• ionoplast interlayer
• sound reducing glass
• UV blocking window glass
• hurricane rated windows
• ground floor window security
• laminated sidelite glass
• break in resistant glazing
• window frame anchorage
• acoustic laminated glass
• safety glazing upgrade

Impact & Security Laminated Glass in Santa Ana, CA

The rear elevation is where a Santa Ana preservation project finally relaxes. Sliding patio doors almost always face a back yard, out of public view, and that single fact changes what is realistic to propose on a listed or contributing property. Review of exterior alterations concentrates on what the public sees.

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• sliding door track repair
• three panel patio door
• multi slide patio door
• pocket sliding door
• sliding door sill pan
• stainless tandem rollers
• tempered patio door glass
• patio door screen
• rear elevation door
• sliding door weatherstrip
• heavy glass panel doors
• patio door replacement

Patio Sliding Doors in Santa Ana, CA

French doors in Santa Ana come in two forms. Original pairs surviving in pre-war houses, usually between a living room and a sun porch, and modern units going into openings that never had them. The first is restoration work and the second is construction work.

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• mortise lock rebuild
• true divided light doors
• sagging door joint repair
• hinge mortise repair
• astragal and flush bolts
• multi point door lock
• out swing french doors
• in swing french doors
• french door glazing
• laminated glass doors
• sun porch doors
• double door threshold

French Doors in Santa Ana, CA

The front door is the single most reviewed element on a designated Santa Ana house. It sits dead centre on the primary elevation, it is what a photograph of the property shows, and it is where an application to replace runs into the most resistance. It is also usually repairable.

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• door bottom rail repair
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• antique door hardware
• mortise lockset rebuild
• leaded sidelite glass
• entry transom window
• fiberglass entry door
• solid wood front door
• steel entry door
• door hinge repair
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Entry & Front Doors in Santa Ana, CA

Screens are the cheapest honest recommendation on this site and the one we make most often on designated property. They are removable, they change nothing about the sash, and a screen almost never triggers the review that a window alteration does. That reversibility is the point.

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• bronze screen mesh
• stainless steel mesh screens
• solar screen fabric
• half screens double hung
• sliding screen door repair
• screen corner keys
• screen spline replacement
• insect screen installation
• solar heat blocking screens
• custom screen frames
• screen repair service

Window Screens & Solar Screening in Santa Ana, CA

Glass repair splits neatly along the same line as everything else in Santa Ana. There is failed insulated glass in windows from the last thirty years, and there is broken or damaged glazing in original sash. The first is a unit swap and the second is bench work.

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• failed window seal
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• sash reglazing
• glazier points and putty
• restoration glass matching
• cracked pane replacement
• tempered glass replacement
• laminated glass repair
• desiccant spacer failure
• glass measurement sight size
• emergency glass repair
• single pane glass replacement

Glass Repair & Insulated Unit Replacement in Santa Ana, CA

Downtown Santa Ana has been a National Register historic district since 1984, which makes commercial glass here a different trade than it is three miles out on Bristol. On Fourth Street the storefront is the historic fabric, and it is usually still there under whatever was screwed over it. The traditional storefront is a designed system and worth recognising.

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• transom glass restoration
• prism glass storefront
• bulkhead repair
• thermally broken storefront
• curtainwall infill glass
• tenant improvement glazing
• office front glass
• emergency board up
• commercial glass replacement
• ADA entry door glass
• textured glass lites
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Commercial Storefront & Transom Glass in Santa Ana, CA

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Santa Ana and Central Orange County. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.

Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling window work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.

Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.