Current Events > Windows are expensive.

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I saw a commercial this morning for some window company that had a price of around $5000 or more for 8 house windows, which is like $625+ per window. Whenever a window is smashed in a TV show, it's always treated like a minor inconvenience. That shit's expensive and is never properly addressed.

Legion was right windows on spaceships are stupid

Mac is more expensive tho

Price varies wildly depending on the shape.

A standard size rectangular window, even a fairly large one, is like a few hundred bucks. The labor cost to remove and install is probably close to the material cost.

But once you get fancy w/ circular, rounded, those giant "gallery" view windows that pop out from the siding, etc... shit gets crazy expensive. Like well into the thousands per window.

Even if it's "only" $300 parts and labor b/c it's a basic rectangular window, it still would suck to replace, though.

GeminiDeus posted...

I saw a commercial this morning for some window company that had a price of around $5000 or more for 8 house windows, which is like $625+ per window. Whenever a window is smashed in a TV show, it's always treated like a minor inconvenience. That shit's expensive and is never properly addressed.

Not only that, but you still haven't accounted on hiring a Mason guy or carpenter to fix the openings by reinstalling the brick and/or siding. Now you'll have to paint the siding/plaster after spending hundreds on waterproofing the cracks and gaps with either silicone or caulk.

Universal Windows Direct tried to quote me like $7000 to replace two windows

Euripides posted...

Universal Windows Direct tried to quote me like $7000 to replace two windows

And did they succeed in quoting you that? :p

SkittyOnWailord posted...

And did they succeed in quoting you that? :p

They quoted it, then I quoted them to fuck right off

Actually depends on what kind. My old house were old, old. They had the rope pulley in the glide. Considering it was a farm house built in the 30's. I looked into the cost of modernizeing them. It was around. $4000 for 16 Windows. This is also a few years ago. That's not factoring hiring someone to replace. I might have been able to do it my self if I had the time. I built a "Florida Room" addition in the early 2000's. So I might have been able too. Anyway since I moved home. My father discussed replacing his. His is double paned side by side. We looked around and the asking price was $2500 plus what ever the labor was. I think $1200 was the number discussed. Again if I was healthy pretty sure he and I could do it and save that $1200.

Irony posted...

Legion was right windows on spaceships are stupid

Indeed. I would not trust explorer.exe to run my hyperdrive.