Discussion Board Forum for Replacement Windows

PGT owns CGI, they acquired them several years ago. Both companies do have more than one line, but I don't know enough about either to comment on quality differences between their different offerings. PGT is the 800lb gorilla in the florida window market and I would suggest that they didn't get thei...

Unfortunately, lower cost and impact window are simply not synonymous. As I mentioned previously, anyone can build an impact window that will pass testing IF they are willing to throw dollars at it. Doesn't necessarily make it a good window, but it does make it an expensive window. How many windows ...

American Craftsman is a rebranded SilverLine bottom of the barrel window that I would never recommend for any purpose. Andersen did own silverline for a relatively short time because upper management wanted to get into mass production vinyl market and silverline is profitable, if not quality. Eventu...

PGT is the 800 lb gorilla in the florida impact market. Start with them; make them your baseline as you begin your search. Make a list of your most important considerations; price, quality, materials, so on...then look at other companies and compare them to the PGT offerings - are they better in som...

Are you replacing existing windows or is this new construction?
Who have you talked with so far?
Do you have a particular window company that you are interested in?

Potentially yes, but it also might depend on what you are looking for and what you are trying to achieve. In some cases the difference may be no more than fancy bells and whistles, but in others it may be the difference between barely passing and sailing through. A Corvette and a Corvair are both ca...

Okay, that makes sense
thanks Eric

I am not disagreeing with your comment, but I am puzzled why you would open a 10 year old thread to make it?

Great advice above, but I am going to hijack the thread for a bit to discuss window design pressure (DP). My apologies up front but I think that DP may not be quite as well understood as other window measurements such as VT, AI, R and U values, and SHGC.... DP is based entirely on structural perform...

I am going to get way off topic here, but I am a nerd and haven't done it in way too long... GuyFromVa, my apologies ahead of time! When we are born, we are able to hear roughly 20 to 20,000hz, but we tend to lose our sensitivity to higher frequencies as we get older. In general we are most sensitiv...

Thank you!

I have been crazy busy, so not nearly as much chance to visit as I would like.

its always great to come in here and read the discussions.

what a wealth of knowledge in this forum!

And since Quanex owns both superspacer and duralite you won't see much debate, at least in advertising, over which one is superior versus the other.

As usual I am late to the party, I hope not too late. garjobo, the 6.4mm laminate is likely to be 3.0 glass/.38pvb interlayer/3.0mm glass. I would personally prefer .76 pvb for sound applications, but .38 is more the standard in Euro while .76 is usually the minimum thickness in North America. Despi...

Guy wrote:Hey Oberon! Long time my friend. Hope life is treating you well

Hey it has been way too long Guy!!

I am doing great, thanks.

what about you, how are things in your world?

You folks are nuts too! :lol: :lol: :lol: sometimes I wonder that myself! I have lived in Hawaii, Florida, Bermuda, and California, (among other places) and when its below zero and the wind is blowing I ask myself, "what the %$#@ am I doing here???" But like Guy said, the fall months (or weeks some...