Are You Looking for Replacement Windows for Your New Home?

 

Residential and commercial windows are a big business. And in a time when thousands of people in Texas are dealing with partial and complete destruction of their homes, residential and commercial windows will play a significant part in both the rebuilding and recovery efforts. In fact, the rebuilding and recovery efforts will be so extensive and will last so long that it will take companies from across the company that will install residential and commercial windows to help both individual home owners and large businesses recover and rebuild.
Residential and commercial window installers always play an important role in the developing efforts of new communities and in the recovery and rebuilding of entire communities that are destroyed by natural disasters. In the process of this recovery and rebuilding, both individual home owners and business owners look to insurance companies and contractors to help them understand the entire process.
Some home owners want to make sure that they find the best windows that are available. Other home owners feel that they have no choice but to look for the options that are the most affordable. Both residential and commercial window repair and replacement options are available in a variety of price ranges. Consider these statistics about the window industry and the role that it plays in America’s economy:

• High quality and properly maintained windows can last 20 years or longer, depending on the material that they are made from.
• Drafty windows that let air escape can increase a home or business’s energy bills by as much as 10% to 25%.
• 45% of the average energy bills in America goes toward heating, according to the Department of Energy.
• Replacing a window costs an average of $300 to $700.
• Homeowners who replace their windows can get back 80% of their investment, according to the National Association of Realtors.
• 44% of renovation jobs in the year 2012 were for window or door replacement, according to the National Association of Home Builders Remodeling Market Index from that year.

Whether you are just beginning a new home construction project or you are looking at your options for replacing windows after a natural disaster, it is important to make sure that you work with a trusted local contractor who will remain in the community and will stand behind their work.