We recently spoke with Mark Grisafe, a residential architect in Southern California and owner of M. Grisafe Architects, to get his thoughts on replacement windows and doors. We wanted to give you another perspective that might help as you consider replacement windows and doors for your San Diego home. Q: What do the homeowners you work with cite as the main reasons for wanting to replace their windows and doors when doing a remodel? A: What I see most often is homeowners wanting new windows and doors because their current ones are either falling apart, don’t look good any longer, or are leaking. And leaking doesn’t just refer to water—windows can also leak air or allow in insects. People also replace their windows and doors for energy efficiency reasons. They realize that not only …
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A Brief Lesson on Bulletproof Glass
We use this blog most often to inform our current and potential customers about the replacement window and door products we sell in San Diego. But this time, we wanted to do a “just for fun” post about something of interest to those of us in the glazing industry, even though it’s a product we don’t sell at BM Windows: bulletproof glass. Hopefully you’ll find it interesting too, and maybe learn something new! Bulletproof glass is a specialty glass that could more accurately be called “bullet resistant glass.” No glass is completely bulletproof, but most products out there will keep bullets from penetrating the glass altogether, or at least slow them down to minimize the damage that can be done by bullets. You will find bulletproof glass used most often in places like banks, retail …
Buyer Beware of Replacement Window Price Estimator Tools Posing as BM Windows
The internet is a great thing! With a simple Google search you can find almost anything you’re looking for, including replacement window companies in San Diego. However, consumers would be wise to do a little more investigating into their Google search results to make sure that they actually are what they claim to be. We say this because there are companies out there that are using BM Windows’s good name to help drive traffic to their own sites, which are not affiliated with our business at all. For example, when you do a Google search for “BM Windows in San Diego,” not only do your search results show our company’s official website and a link to our profile on Yelp, but you’ll also see several replacement window price estimator tools with our name on them. One we saw recently was …
Replacement Windows Make a San Diego Customer’s Home “Spooky Quiet”
The BM Windows team has received another five-star review from a satisfied replacement window customer in San Diego, Steve S. Steve recently left a review on Yelp about his experience with BM Windows. He had this to say about his overall experience: “The pricing, the scheduling, arrival time, time to completion…everything went according to plan….This was really an almost effortless experience.” At BM Windows, we work hard to make sure your experience with us is as seamless as possible. We make sure we give our customers realistic timelines, and we work hard to stay true to those timelines. There’s nothing worse than a company, replacement window or otherwise, that overpromises and underdelivers. Steve also praised the window installation team that worked on his San Diego home. …
Popular Review Sites to Help You Find a Replacement Window Company in San Diego
Not too long ago, if you wanted to find a home improvement professional, like a replacement window company, you would ask around for recommendations. Maybe your neighbors had recently replaced their windows and patio doors, so you would ask them if they were happy with the company they had used and the products they installed. Or, you would just look in the phone book for replacement window companies in your area and start making phone calls. All of that has changed with the rise of the internet, and all of the review sites on it. Now, you can easily see numerous reviews, both positive and negative, on multiple websites, about almost any company. Below, we’ve outlined some of the more popular and useful websites used for finding home services professionals like replacement window …
