New replacement windows can improve more than just your home's curb appeal. They can make your home more comfortable, cut heating and cooling bills while you live there, and recoup an average of 76% of their cost at resale (2025 Cost vs. Value Report). If your windows are drafty, hard to open, fogging between the panes, or original to your home, it may be more cost-effective to replace them than to keep repairing them. ©2025 Zonda Media, a Delaware corporation. Complete data from the Remodeling 2025 Cost vs. Value Report can be downloaded free at www.costvsvalue.com.
Below you’ll find project pricing by window type, our top-ranked window contractors, and answers to the most common questions. Still weighing repair vs. replace? See the signs it’s time to replace your windows, compare frame materials, or check the full cost guide.
Window Replacement costs depend on the style of window, how many you replace, the frame material, and whether the opening needs structural work. See estimated costs at a glance, with details on how scope, timeline, and other factors affect cost. These are national estimates for labor and materials, and your local labor rates will affect pricing. See your state page for local pricing.
| Project Type | Estimated Cost | What’s Included |
|---|---|---|
| Full Home Replacement | $6,100–$30,500 | Replace all 10–15 windows in a standard home. This is the per-window range above times a typical window count |
| Bay / Bow Windows | $2,500–$8,000 | Structural bay or bow window installation |
| Sliding Patio Doors | $1,700–$3,100 | Sliding or French patio door replacement |
| Storm Window Upgrade | $800–$3,000 | Storm windows over existing frames |
| Casement / Specialty | $600–$1,900 | Custom shapes, casements, awning windows |
*All cost estimates on this page are planning estimates, not quotes. Actual costs vary by location, project scope, materials, site conditions, and contractor. See methodology and sources.
These companies are ordered by their real customer rating weighted by review volume, taken from public review platforms.
It is not an editorial score and not a ranking of build quality. Where a company runs several branches, its rating combines every location with enough reviews to count; where it runs one, the figure describes that listing. See our Editorial Standards.
Renewal by Andersen is consistently reviewed as a premium replacement window provider known for custom-built windows, professional installation, and a simple, hassle-free process from start to finish. Homeowners frequently praise the overall installation experience, noting that crews were professional, friendly and detail oriented. While the investment is often higher than some alternatives, many reviewers mention the customized fit, quality of the finished product, and professional service as reasons they feel the investment is worthwhile.
Home Genius Exteriors holds Owens Corning Platinum Preferred status alongside James Hardie Elite Preferred and CertainTeed 5-Star contractor certifications, and covers roofing, siding, windows, doors, gutters and attic insulation. Reviewers name their project manager more often than almost anything else about the job, and describe them staying involved and checking in through to the finish. Siding and gutter work draws the warmest praise for how it looks once finished, and most installs wrap up in just a few days. Their free inspection is thorough and photo-led, with some homeowners noting drone footage of the roof itself. Promotional discounts are tiered by trade rather than applying across the board, so ask what your specific project qualifies for. If your roof is flat or low-slope, ask what warranty comes with it, since those systems are covered differently.
ImproveIt! Home Remodeling has worked across Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and now North Carolina for more than thirty years, covering windows, bath, and kitchen cabinet refacing. Installers draw the most specific praise in their reviews: homeowners name the crew, describe furniture and floors protected through the job, and point to details like a flashing piece custom-bent to fit rather than left standard. The design consultant is the other steady theme: patient, unhurried, and praised for measuring every opening rather than estimating. Warranty follow-through shows up too, with homeowners describing periodic courtesy calls and, in one case, service honored on windows installed more than thirty years earlier. Their in-home appointment is genuinely thorough and can run well past the hour or so you will be quoted, so allow real time for that first visit.
WinChoice builds its own vinyl windows and sells them factory-direct across the South and Midwest, with a triple-pane option, and now offers roofing as well. Install day is where the reviews concentrate, and they are warm: homeowners name their crew, and describe furniture and blinds taken down and put back, floors covered, and a whole house of windows completed in a day or two. Several mention the site being left cleaner than the crew found it. Because the reviews weigh so heavily toward that install experience, it is worth asking how warranty service works and getting the terms in writing.
Window Nation’s reviews are consistent about the sales visit: homeowners describe a consultant who lays out window options and pricing plainly, without pushing for a decision on the spot, and they often name that person specifically. Several branches carry their own “no-pressure sales” tag in the review data, and the price itself draws steady praise, especially from homeowners who compared it against other quotes first. The install crews get the same kind of specific praise. Reviewers describe crews arriving on time, often early, protecting floors and furniture, and finishing a whole house of windows in a single day before hauling the old ones away. Window Nation fits its own exclusive Soft-Lite line, the Envision series, and every unit passes a 50-point factory inspection before it ships. The limited lifetime warranty transfers if you sell your home, though the request has to go in within 60 days of closing and carries a fee. It is worth asking about that at the consultation, along with how quickly a service call gets scheduled if you ever need one.
American Home Design has served Nashville and Middle Tennessee since 1977, covering windows, bath and outdoor living, and it is the region’s Jacuzzi Bath Remodel partner. Reviewers name their installers with unusual consistency, and even homeowners frustrated with a separate part of the process still go out of their way to praise the crew that did the work. The recurring detail is care for the rest of the house: floors and fixtures covered, nothing left behind, and most installs landing in the one to two days promised. They publish their own per-window pricing, which is rarer than it should be. If a warranty issue comes up after the install, ask up front how follow-up visits are scheduled.
Long Home Products traces back to 1945 and is still run by the same family, four generations on, covering roofing, bath and siding along the East Coast. Its roofing warranty is one of the strongest available anywhere: up to fifty years, non-prorated and transferable, covering the full future cost of shingles or labor. The clearest thread through their reviews is a consultant who listens first: homeowners regularly describe someone who asked what they were trying to achieve before recommending anything, then answered every follow-up question patiently. Installers draw the same kind of praise once a job is under way: named crews, protected floors, and a site left clean. Roofing here is replacement rather than repair. Their outreach is active, so if you are only gathering information it is worth saying so plainly at the first call.
Windows USA has been building its own windows in Arkansas since 1967 and sells them factory-direct across fourteen Southern and Midwestern states, with full-size screens included rather than charged as an upgrade. The Alaskan® Window System frames are virgin vinyl and ENERGY STAR® certified. Install crews are what reviewers write about most: named, courteous, and fast enough to fit twelve windows in five hours, sometimes finishing an entire house while the homeowner was away and leaving it cleaner than they found it. Several reviewers also single out the office staff as separately helpful, which is less common than it should be. The transferable lifetime warranty covers frames, glass seals, hardware and the installation itself. Screens sit outside it, so ask about those specifically, along with how quickly a warranty service visit gets scheduled if a window ever needs a look.
Rite Window replaces windows, doors and showers across Greater Boston and southern New Hampshire, and the length of its warranty is what homeowners most often say decided it. One recent reviewer put it at more than double what competing quotes offered. The reviews are mostly about the crews: named installers, twenty-nine windows fitted in two and a half days, a full shower renovation done in three, and fourteen windows including a large bay window finished in a single day. Several reviewers credit their rep with walking them through Mass Save rebate paperwork rather than leaving them to work it out. Rite Window is a regional brand within the Renuity platform, so you may see the Renuity name on paperwork or follow-up. It is the same Woburn team.
Pinnacle Home Improvements has been family-led since 1988 and works across Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and North Carolina, covering roofing, windows, siding, doors and gutters. It is a GAF Master Elite contractor, a distinction held by a small share of roofers nationwide. Windows and siding are what homeowners write about most, across more than one of its markets, and they are specific about why: draft elimination, the finished look of new siding, and crews who removed their shoes on the way in. The salesperson is named and praised in nearly every positive review, and several note the consultation was educational rather than a pitch. One practical note: Pinnacle asks that both homeowners attend the in-home appointment, so plan for that when you schedule.
Victory Home Remodeling covers windows, roofing, siding and gutters across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland), installing and warranting house-branded systems supplied by established manufacturers: EnduranceX™ siding from Norandex, roofing materials from GAF. It is a GAF Master Elite contractor, a designation held by only about 2% of roofers nationwide. The process runs through a named salesperson and project manager, with a quality inspection at the end rather than a single handoff, and reviewers consistently describe the installation crews as clean, careful with the house, and quick to finish on the date first promised. Its warranty is genuinely one of the stronger ones in this category: lifetime, non-prorated on both labor and product, transferable once to the next owner, and it covers glass breakage regardless of cause. Get the full scope, including trim, siding tie-ins, and what the warranty covers, in writing before the crew starts.
Clear Choice Home Improvement is a family-owned company working across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, southern Maine, Vermont and central Pennsylvania: a regional specialist rather than a national one. Metal roofing is where its reviews are strongest and most detailed: standing-seam roofs fitted in three or four days, crews working till dark, and one homeowner whose panel was repaired free of charge a year later. Homeowners regularly name their crew lead and project coordinator by name when a roof is finished. It is an Owens Corning Preferred contractor, and covers roofing, siding, windows, doors, gutters and bath. One thing worth knowing up front: Clear Choice does replacement and installation, not repairs.
Lednor Home Solutions is the largest Gutter Helmet dealer in the country, working across twelve states from seven offices: a dealer of the system rather than its manufacturer, which matters when a claim comes up. Homeowners praise punctual, tidy crews and a salesperson who explained the product without rushing. Its Sunesta retractable awning work is quietly its best-reviewed line, with homeowners describing installs finished ahead of schedule. The gutter warranty is the manufacturer’s while the service visit is Lednor’s, and that seam is where homeowners report the most friction. Ask what a service call involves and how quickly one is scheduled.
FHIA Remodeling fits impact-rated windows and doors, roofing and kitchens across Florida, from Miami to Pensacola, with glass engineered for hurricane-force wind and pressure. Reviewers name their installers again and again, describing crews that call ahead, arrive on time, finish a standard window job in hours rather than days, and protect floors and haul away debris before they leave. The company is uniting under the name of its parent, Renuity, so its listings, paperwork and follow-up may all say Renuity while the local team stays the same. Its warranty is marketed as lifetime and fully transferable, covering labor, materials and glass breakage. Ask for those terms in writing, since warranty service is where homeowners report the most friction.
Mad City Windows & Baths started in Madison and now runs offices across sixteen states, covering windows, bath, and kitchen cabinet refacing. The same theme holds from Wisconsin to Iowa to Minnesota: reviewers name their installer specifically, and the praise is concrete: on time, explains the work as it happens, and leaves the house cleaner than the crew found it. Bath conversions are usually finished within a day or two. Mad City is a regional brand within the Renuity home improvement platform. If you are converting a tub to a shower, ask about the floor finish and how the drain is sealed. A few homeowners wanted more grip and better drainage than the standard base gave them.
Homeowners across DaBella’s network consistently point to the in-home consultation as the best part of the process: a named rep who lays out every option and price point without rushing, and on window jobs, lets you feel the difference between glass packages before you decide. Where a job is finished, the reviews get specific: full roof replacements wrapped up in a single day, whole-house window installs that leave rooms noticeably quieter, and bath and shower conversions homeowners call worth it once the work is done. DaBella covers roofing, siding, windows, bath, walk-in tubs, gutters and solar, and is a GAF Master Elite and James Hardie Elite Preferred contractor; its windows now come under the Fairfield and Glasswing lines. Financing runs through independent third-party lenders. DaBella states plainly in its own terms that it is neither a broker nor a lender. The in-home visit covers a lot of ground, so set aside real time for it, and ask which product line (Fairfield or Glasswing on windows, for example) your quote covers.
Statewide Remodeling is a Texas-founded remodeler now working across five states, covering bath, windows, entry and patio doors, and sunrooms. The finished bath or shower conversion comes up well in every market we checked, and reviewers reliably name their installer: crews that protect floors and countertops before starting, finish a walk-in shower or tub in a single day, and haul away and clean up the old fixtures completely. More than one homeowner has used Statewide for a project, then come back for a second. Statewide is a regional brand within the Renuity home improvement platform. The one thing worth doing carefully is the warranty: homeowners have found the cover narrower at claim time than they understood at the sale (caulking in particular is often excluded) so ask specifically what is and is not covered, and get the answer in writing.
Hansons covers windows, roofing, siding, gutters and baths across the Great Lakes, and reviewers consistently name the consultant who walked them through options, explained financing, and answered questions without rushing: a different name at nearly every branch, which is its own kind of evidence. Install day draws the same praise. Crews finish a house of windows or a full bath in a day, and homeowners describe careful cleanup and real admiration for the finished work, down to the caulk lines. The Smart Choice warranty runs in tiers: the Lifetime Guarantee applies to the Premium and Smart Choice product solutions for roofing, siding, windows and gutters, so ask which tier your quote is written against. Baths carry a separate No-Leak Guarantee. Warranty service scheduling is the one thing worth asking about up front, since that is where a few homeowners describe the longest wait for a callback.
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Many homeowners use terms like window replacement, new windows and window installation interchangeably, but they don't always mean the same thing. Knowing the differences helps you compare quotes accurately and avoid paying for work you don't actually need.
Window repair is usually right when the frames are sound and one or two windows have a specific problem:
Window replacement is usually right when the windows themselves are the problem:
This is the distinction that moves the price most:
A company that only sells one of the two will tend to recommend that one, which is exactly why a second quote is worth the hour it takes.
Not every contractor works the same way:
Neither is automatically better, but it explains why quotes for “the same” job vary so widely. If two contractors recommend different things, ask why. Comparing the answers tells you which one is solving your problem rather than selling what they stock.
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