Vinyl Home Replacement Windows Eliminate Common Health Hazards

A man’s home — or a woman’s home! — is supposed to be their castle, safe and secure from the harms and hazards of the world. A retreat from a sometimes overwhelming and hostile environment, where we can be comfortable and safe.

Yet our homes can make us sick. Often, especially in older homes, the same windows that let in the morning sunlight can also be the bearer of bad tidings, delivering environmental allergens, facilitating the arrival of mold and mildew, and worse.

Vinyl home replacement windows can eliminate some common health hazards, and significantly minimize others. Here’s how:

Vinyl home replacement windows, like fiberglass home replacement windows and wood replacement windows, are manufactured without any lead. Older windows, especially those which have been in place for more than forty years, may have at some point been painted with lead-based paint. Small children have an inexplicable fascination with windowsills and have been known to ingest this paint, with serious health consequences. While lead based paint can be ‘painted over’, the ideal solution is to remove it entirely from the household. Replacing older windows with vinyl home replacement windows completely eliminates the potential lead poisoning issues.

Asthma and other respiratory disorders are often triggered by exposure to environmental allergens, such as pollen, dust, and airborne particulates. Leaky windows let these triggers right into your home. Vinyl replacement windows, such as the Alside Excalibur line of windows, provide an effective barrier: keeping warm, comfortable air inside, and cold, drafty air laden with allergy triggers out! Double or triple pane glass windows help minimize the entry of anything but sunlight — exactly what the doctor ordered!

An Ounce of Preparation: Vinyl Home Replacement Windows

An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of cure. So the saying goes — and when we’re considering the state of our wallets, vinyl home replacement windows may very well serve as the ounce of preparation!

Winter’s coming early this year. Snow’s already fallen in some parts of the country, and chances are if you go outside right now, you’ll discover it’s chillier than you expected. In a home with leaky, old, inefficient single pane windows, that cold air sneaks into your living space, while expensive warm air escapes right out.
Vinyl home replacement windows offer one of the best solutions possible to the problem! Vinyl home replacement windows, like the Alside Excalibur line, combine energy efficiency, rigid, insulated frames, low e coatings, and insulating gas pockets to combat the all-too-common situation of wasted energy.

If your home heating bill is too high and you’re still uncomfortable in your own living space, you may want to look at your windows and doors. Experts tell us that as much as 40% of a homes’ energy can be lost through these leaky portals. Upgrading with high quality vinyl replacement windows and replacement doors can help you save energy and money — and enjoy a more comfortable home!

Vinyl home replacement windows are often the best option because they offer the style and quality construction of wood replacement windows at a fraction of the price. When every dollar counts, you want to make sure that every improvement you make to your home will pay for itself! Vinyl home replacement windows do exactly that — and should you be in the market to sell your home, having high quality vinyl replacement windows in place makes your property more attractive to buyers!

Storm Windows: Strategic or Silly?

“Why in the world would you buy vinyl replacement windows? Storm windows are just as good, and you don’t have to spend any money!”

That’s the well meaning advice one home owner was given. They came to us to see if it iwas true.

Can storm windows do the job of vinyl replacement windows? Or wood replacement windows? Or fiberglass replacement windows?

Long story short, no. Storm windows were never designed to match the energy efficiency offered by vinyl home replacement windows. They aren’t built the right way: there are no storm windows that feature the triple pane glass, insulating gas and low e coatings that can be found on the best vinyl home replacement windows. That’s not even taking into the account the insulated frames found on quality vinyl replacement windows. Storm windows do not mitigate cold air nor moisture penetration as effectively as vinyl replacement windows do.

Bear in mind that vinyl home replacement windows offer benefits beyond energy efficiency. Generally, vinyl home replacement windows, such as the Alside Excalibur windows, are far more attractive than most storm windows.

Vinyl replacement windows also offer enhanced sound-buffering capabilities, reducing ambient and environmental noise levels. Additionally, their superior construction helps ensure the safety and security of your home: multi-point locking systems keep the bad guys from coming in — and the easy open design means that if there’s a fire, your family can quickly get out. That’s not the case with a storm window, where the only escape option may be to break the window, resulting in razor sharp shards of glass to dodge while you’re trying to flee the flames and smoke!

Every Dollar Counts: How Vinyl Replacement Windows Can Save You Money

Every Dollar Counts: How Vinyl Replacement Windows Can Save You Money

As this entry was being prepared, the US Senate leadership was frantically working on last minute additions to make the bailout more palatable to legislators. Economic unease is the order of the day. As major Wall Street firms collapse like pine trees in a mudslide, those of us who don’t have golden parachutes to cling to have to watch every dollar.

This is especially pertinent as cold weather approaches. The cost of heating our homes this winter is likely to be higher than ever before. Saving money is the order of the day.

Vinyl replacement windows can help you save money. There’s the immediate obvious benefit inherent in vinyl replacement window’s energy efficiency. Experts tell us that as much as 40% of a home’s energy can be lost through leaky windows — stopping that loss by installing a high quality vinyl replacement window, such as an Alside Excalibur Window is one way to eliminate that waste.

Vinyl replacement windows keep the cold drafts and frigid breezes outdoors. Maintaining a warm, comfortable interior temperature is one way to help your family’s immune system stay strong, keeping everyone healthy and minimizing expensive trips to the doctor.

Additionally, because vinyl replacement windows make it easier to maintain a consistent interior temperature, your heating system runs less often. This saves money two ways: you use less fuel, and you experience less wear and tear on your heating system.

 There are a number of ways vinyl replacement windows can help you save money, from the immediately apparent to the more subtle.