Before you know it, summer will be here. If you’ve thought about adding patio doors to your San Diego home or replacing your old aluminum patio doors with new, energy-efficient vinyl patio doors, now is a great time to do it! We wanted to give you an idea of the options that are available from BM Windows for San Diego homeowners looking to install patio doors, as there are many more choices than just the two-panel sliders that used to be available. Two-Panel Patio Doors That being said, two-panel sliding patio doors are still a popular option for San Diego homeowners, especially if you are just looking to replace your current patio door with one of a similar size. These doors have two large panes of glass, with one panel sliding over the other to open. You probably have experience …
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Replacement Window and Door Screens: The Details Can Make a Difference for Your San Diego Home
Our customers always have lots of questions about window and door products we sell, bur rarely do they ask about the screens that come with them. Maybe they assume window screens are pretty much all the same. Believe it or not, the screens on your replacement windows and doors can really make a difference in the visibility of the scenery through your windows. The type of screen you choose can also affect the amount of heat and UV rays that are let into your home. Not to mention, some window and door screens are just better made—with higher quality materials and better construction methods—and will be more durable than others. That being said, we wanted to give you some information on the types of screens that are available with the replacement window and door products we sell to our …
Getting to Know the BM Windows Sales Team for Replacement Windows in San Diego
One of the things that makes BM Windows different from other replacement window companies in San Diego is our exceptional sales team! While other companies train their sales representatives in high-pressure sales tactics and tell them to “never take ‘no’ for an answer,” we have a different approach at BM Windows. We hire sales team members that truly enjoy educating our customers about replacement windows and doors and helping them choose the best products for their homes that will also fit within their budgets. We receive so many compliments about our sales team. People find it refreshing to deal with sales representatives who don’t make them uncomfortable by pressuring them into buying replacement windows and doors before they’re ready to make a decision. We thought we’d introduce …
BM Windows Exceeds 100 5-Star Reviews on Yelp!
As a small business in San Diego, we depend heavily on word-of-mouth advertising and referrals to grow our business. Before the advent of the internet, this meant people had to ask friends and neighbors for recommendations on businesses to give their hard-earned money to. Now, it’s as easy as going to online review sites to see what customers have to say about their experience with a particular business. You no longer have to know someone who has personally used the business—you can rely on the candid, voluntary reviews of others in your community. One of the top review sites on the internet is Yelp. This site is visited by an average of 145 million people every month! And as of the end of 2016, there were more than 115 million reviews on the site—and that number grows every day. If …
How Modern Replacement Windows Came to Be: A Brief History
Have you ever wondered who first thought to put a window in a house? Or how windows have evolved over time to become the highly specialized building material that we know today? Maybe you don’t think about things like this, but being in the replacement window industry, we sometimes think about these things, so we thought we’d do a little research about the history of windows. We found some interesting facts that we thought we would share with you! Where Did the Word “Window” Come From? The English word “window” has an interesting etymology. It derives from the Old Norse (a Germanic language spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia between the 9th and 13th centuries) word “vindauga,” which literally means “wind eye.” The Swedish language, even today, uses the word “vindoga” to describe a hole …
