[Scott Douglas]

I remember the day we had ours replaced. Hot, windy (Santa Ana's blowing) day in Aug. I know we didn't pay that much for them since we don't have that kind of money. We got Milgard Low E, pretty simple windows and a new slider for the family room. They insisted on tearing out the old slider framing and putting in new, which now that its been done I'm OK with and glad they did. NO leaks from it and the step over isn't as bad as it would be if they'd left it in. Once I saw how easy it was to put the windows in, I was kind of wishing I'd done it myself, until a window almost got smashed from the wind. It would have been on their dime not mine to replace it. Our windows are a joy to open/close now as the old aluminum ones were really in pretty bad shape. The noise abatement is fantastic with the double pane too. The Low E has it's drawbacks as we quickly learned how much heat we gained during the winter from the sunlight coming in. We've since had the HVAC system upgraded from wall furnaces to forced heat and a/c. The whole replacement job took them a day, including the re-stuccoing of the slider door frame.