I have been asked this question numerous times: “Why can’t I just buy new construction windows, which cost less than custom-sized windows, to replace my old, existing windows?”
As the weather has warmed up, door-to-door window salespeople have hit the streets.
Memorial Day is almost here, and a beautiful season of barbequing has already begun in the San Antonio area. My neighbors and I all love to grill, but have you ever noticed how many people have their BBQ grills right next to the house? It provides convenience, but it can also be a pretty serious fire risk.
Whenever our exterior designers visit with homeowners, they have discovered that most folks have questions about window egress laws when the designers bring up this topic. They get asked questions like “What does window egress mean?” and “What are window egress laws?” Well, we’re going to talk about what it means and how it affects your home’s design.
It's a very fair question to ask: "How much money can I expect to recoup from my home remodeling project?"
If you are having a window replacement job done on your home and have a home security or alarm system in place, it's important to keep the alarm system intact. Here are a few things to keep in mind for a smooth installation.
Let’s put on our physicist lab coats for a moment and look at how heat or cold gets inside your house. Heat always moves toward cold. Therefore, if it’s hot outside, the heat is constantly trying to get into your house, and if it’s cold outside, the heat is trying to escape from your house. The most efficient way for the heat to move is through your windows.
The summer sun in San Antonio does not make it easy to keep your home cool without overworking your air conditioning unit and costing you a small fortune on your electricity bills. We’re in the midst of exploring the options of solar screens, tinted window film, and Low-E glass for reducing heat transfer into your home through your windows. In our previous blog post, we looked at the benefits and disadvantages of solar screens, and today we’re going to examine tinted window film as another option for your home.
San Antonio homeowners have tried various ways to keep the summer sun from blasting into their windows, overworking their air conditioning unit, and driving up their electricity bill. We’ll explore the options of solar screens, tinted window film, and Low-E glass for reducing heat transfer into your home through your windows, and we’ll look at the benefits and disadvantages of each. Today’s topic is solar screens.
