Every Window Service We Offer in Charleston, SC

The Board of Architectural Review says the quiet part out loud in its own adopted policy: most energy loss in an old building goes through the walls, not the glass. That one line reorders the work on a peninsula house, and it saves people a great deal of money. So on a pre-1975 building the first thing we price is the cheap work.

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• low-E glass windows
• double pane window replacement
• interior storm window panels
• solar heat gain coefficient
• U-factor and SHGC ratings
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• argon filled insulated glass
• weatherstripping original sash
• air infiltration testing
• west facing window heat gain
• warm edge spacer
• single pane window upgrade
• attic and wall air sealing
• Lowcountry cooling season glazing

Energy-Efficient Windows and Storm Panels in Charleston, SC

This is the page where we talk you out of the product, across half of this city. The BAR's adopted window policy contains four words with no wriggle room: no vinyl or vinyl components. That applies in every district it governs, on every elevation visible from a public right-of-way.

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• reinforced vinyl meeting rail
• white and almond vinyl frames
• vinyl window warranty
• Berkeley County window replacement

Vinyl Windows in Charleston, SC

Fiberglass is the most misunderstood frame in this market, because where it is allowed is not where people assume. The BAR's district and age matrix does not treat it as a universal upgrade. It appears in some cells and absent from others, and knowing which is worth real money.

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• fiberglass clad wood windows
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• narrow sightline windows
• fiberglass window expansion
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• simulated divided lite fiberglass
• coastal fiberglass frames
• fiberglass patio door frames
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Fiberglass and Fiberglass-Clad Windows in Charleston, SC

This is the frame the districts are written around, and the vocabulary matters more than the brand. The policy distinguishes three grid types and treats them as different products. Getting the wrong one specified is the single most common reason a window submission comes back.

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• true divided lite windows
• simulated divided lite windows
• authentic divided lite
• muntin profile matching
• historic district window replacement
• putty glazed sash
• wood window restoration
• custom sash to match existing
• mahogany and cypress sash
• clad wood patio door
• BAR approved windows
• match existing grid pattern
• peninsula window replacement

Wood and Clad-Wood Windows in Charleston, SC

Aluminum and steel occupy an odd position here. Elsewhere in the fleet these are the frames people are talked out of. In Charleston's districts they are the two metals the policy actually names, and on the right building they are the correct answer rather than the compromise.

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• steel casement restoration
• anodized aluminum finish
• AAMA 2605 fluoropolymer coating
• narrow sightline steel windows
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• salt air corrosion windows
• commercial aluminum windows
• mid century aluminum windows
• aluminum window thermal break
• steel window glazing bead
• aluminum sliding window replacement
• harbor facing elevation windows

Aluminum and Steel Windows in Charleston, SC

The double-hung is the default window of this city and the one we are asked about most. It is also the one where the gap between a repair and a replacement is widest, which is exactly why the adopted policy requires evidence before it will accept the second. An original Charleston double-hung is a machine.

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• sash cord replacement
• counterweight sash box
• spiral balance replacement
• tilt in double hung windows
• single hung vs double hung
• sash repair historic windows
• meeting rail lock
• double hung window insert
• full frame window replacement
• wood sash restoration
• window sash weight pockets
• double hung screen replacement
• sash weatherstripping
• triple hung windows

Double-Hung Sash Windows in Charleston, SC

Casements seal better than anything else you can buy. The sash pulls into a compression gasket all the way round, so air infiltration numbers are the best in the catalog. That is the case for them, and outside the historic districts it is a strong one.

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• multipoint lock casement
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• hopper windows
• stainless casement hardware
• casement window air seal
• changing window operation type
• coastal casement hardware corrosion

Casement and Awning Windows in Charleston, SC

Sliders are the honest workhorse of the elevations nobody photographs. They are cheap, they are wide, they open without swing clearance, and there is almost nowhere in a Charleston historic district where one is going on a face the public can see. That is not a criticism of the product.

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• sliding window rollers
• slider window track repair
• rear elevation windows
• aluminum slider replacement
• vinyl sliding windows
• wide opening slider
• slider window screens
• egress sliding window
• sliding window weep holes
• garage and workshop windows
• 1970s aluminum sliders
• low profile window sightlines

Sliding and Gliding Windows in Charleston, SC

A bay or a bow is not a window in any meaningful sense. It is a miniature addition that happens to be glazed, and that governs how the job runs here, from the review path to the flashing detail to whether we build it at all. On a reviewed elevation the answer is usually no.

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• garden window
• bay window headboard
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• bay window sagging repair

Bay and Bow Windows in Charleston, SC

Fixed glass is the cheapest way to buy a view and the easiest thing to get wrong in a hurricane market. Nothing opens, so no hardware fails and no air leaks, but there is no operable sash to fall back on and the spans get large fast. Charleston's architectural shapes are not decoration bolted on later.

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• arched window replacement
• palladian window
• fanlight and transom
• round top window
• fixed lite window
• architectural shape windows
• custom radius window
• gable end triangle window
• large fixed glass span
• laminated glass picture window
• transom over entry door
• octagon and circle windows
• stair landing window
• tempered glass requirement

Picture and Architectural Shapes in Charleston, SC

Egress is arithmetic, not opinion, and it is the one part of a window quote nobody gets to negotiate. Bedrooms have to carry an opening a firefighter can come through and an occupant can get out of, and those figures derail more replacement jobs here than anything else. What gets measured is net clear opening: the void left once the sash is thrown wide, not the frame dimension printed on the order.

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• emergency escape opening
• net clear opening 5.7 square feet
• sill height 44 inches
• bedroom window code
• basement egress window
• raised foundation egress
• attic conversion egress
• egress window well
• casement for egress
• R310 requirements
• enlarging a window opening
• converted attic bedroom
• rental inspection window
• window opening control device

Egress Windows for Bedrooms in Charleston, SC

This is the page where the two authorities in this city collide, and where our recommendation departs furthest from what you will be told elsewhere. The short version: the code requires the opening to be protected. It does not require you to buy an impact window.

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• opening protection wind code
• large missile test ASTM E1996
• 150 mph design wind speed
• laminated impact glass
• wood structural panel shutters
• Bahama shutters
• accordion and roll down shutters
• safety glazing film
• wind zone 3 South Carolina
• hurricane protection historic homes
• design pressure rating windows
• storm panel tracks
• impact rated entry doors

Impact Glazing and Opening Protection in Charleston, SC

A patio door is the heaviest moving object in a house and the one most people ignore until it stops moving. It also sits where Charleston's two hazards meet: a large glazed opening in a wind zone, and a threshold at the base of a wall in a flood-prone city. The threshold is where we start.

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• multi slide patio door
• patio door roller replacement
• patio door track repair
• impact rated patio door
• screened porch doors
• patio door threshold flashing
• tandem stainless rollers
• lift and slide door
• patio door lock replacement
• raised foundation door threshold
• salt air door hardware
• patio door weep holes
• wide opening glass doors

Patio and Sliding Glass Doors in Charleston, SC

French doors belong to Charleston in a way they do not to most American cities, because the building type demands them. The single house turns its narrow end to the street and runs a piazza down its long flank, and the rooms open onto it through glazed doors. That piazza is not a porch bolted on for looks.

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• double french door replacement
• astragal and flush bolts
• multipoint lock french doors
• french door threshold
• true divided lite french doors
• interior french doors
• french door screens
• jib window doors
• single house piazza
• french door weatherstripping
• french door hinge sag
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French and Piazza Doors in Charleston, SC

Charleston has a front door problem that exists almost nowhere else, and it confuses every out-of-town supplier. On a single house the door facing the street does not open into the house. It opens onto the piazza, and the real entrance is a second door along that porch.

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• front door replacement
• fanlight transom restoration
• sidelight glass replacement
• piazza screen door
• fiberglass entry door
• solid wood entry door
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• impact rated entry door
• historic door repair
• entry door sill pan
• storm door installation
• door casing and pilasters
• false front door single house
• leaded glass sidelights

Entry Doors and Sidelights in Charleston, SC

Screens are the cheapest thing we sell and the one people put off longest, which is odd in a city where the insect season runs most of the year and where the marsh produces something small enough to walk straight through a standard mesh without slowing down. Start with the mesh, because it decides everything else. Standard fiberglass at eighteen by sixteen is fine inland.

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• rescreening service
• custom window screen frames
• solar screen fabric
• pet resistant screen mesh
• stainless steel insect screen
• screen spline replacement
• half screens double hung
• porch and piazza screening
• no see um mesh
• shutter clearance windows
• screen door repair
• fiberglass vs aluminum screen
• screen frame corrosion
• retractable screens

Window Screens and Shutter Clearance in Charleston, SC

Most calls that begin as a window replacement should end as a glass repair, and this page exists to make that easy to ask for. A failed seal, a cracked lite or a broken pane is a component fault, not grounds for replacing a working frame. Haze between the panes means the perimeter seal has given up and the desiccant in the spacer is spent.

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• tempered glass cut to size
• laminated glass replacement
• spacer date code
• single pane glass reglazing
• putty glazing repair
• emergency board up
• restoration glass
• sash reglazing historic windows
• mirror and table top glass
• storefront lite replacement

Glass Repair and Sealed Unit Replacement in Charleston, SC

Commercial glazing is a different license, a different board and a different order of operations from residential work, and treating it as a bigger version of a house is how downtown storefront projects end up months late and thousands over. The license first. In South Carolina, Glass and Glazing is a general contractor classification under Section 40-11-410, and it is the classification that names curtain wall systems, mall fronts and architectural window systems.

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• all glass entrance doors
• tempered storefront lites
• commercial door closers and pivots
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• office building window replacement
• restaurant glass replacement
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Commercial Storefront Glass in Charleston, SC

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. 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.