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Zen Windows - Doing Replacement Windows Differently

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Daniel Wolt, Zen Windows

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I have some replacement window salemen horror stories, I mean some real doozies. If you've got a minute, I'll tell you one.

There is the story where a certain large replacement window company in the Washington, DC metro area whose name I shall not mention pinned me and my wife down in our kitchen for three and a half hours.

We got the works. The lightbulb-behind-the-glass trick. The cross-sectioned window prop. Charts extolling the wonders of LoE glass. We got the instant price markdown. Then, we got a markdown from the markdown. On top of this, we had a rental drum sander sitting motionless in the dining room, costing us something like eight dollars an hour.

We politely hinted that we'd had enough, but he did not take the hint. We accelerated our hints until finally we said, "You know, we've had enough of this. Could you please leave?"

And he still did not leave.

If you have ever solicited estimates from replacement window companies, you have stories like this. Probably far worse, too. Window companies pull out every sneaky trick in the book.

So one day I was trolling deep into Google results while researching replacement windows and came across a most unusual replacement window company. It's a company that almost makes me wish I lived in Ohio, where they are located. Alas, I live far from Ohio, and my windows are in great shape.

But here's their story.

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