Residential Window Replacement questions

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Our house is 41 years old. We just replaced the rotting and woodpecker-holed cedar siding with Hardy siding.
Many windows need to be replaced, but two need replacing right now. The rest will have to wait until I financially recover from the siding replacement! All windows are wooden Pella casement windows.
The two that need replacing are on an East-facing and West-facing wall. The original siding on these walls was diagonal instead of horizontal and there is no overhang in these walls. That just funneled all rain water to the windows and rotted them and the sheathing. Replaced sheathing with the siding and wrapped the house too. New siding is all horizontal, so fixed that design flaw.

So I got quotes from Pella and Renewal By Andersen.

Pella wood clad in aluminum and Pella fiberglass are about the same, around $11,300 installed.

Renewal By Andersen Fibrex is about $15,700 installed.

Anyone used either of these companies for replacement windows? Or any other companies in Concord I should contact?

Will I have any expansion concerns with any of these materials in the sun? Will I have any water concerns with a clad window?



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East facing, two large windows at bottom open, top two do not.
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West facing window, both open.

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They give you prices for just the windows? I'd price them out through someone else just to see what you could get from another supplier.....that seems like alot of money to replace 2 windows but sounds about on par for an Pella/Anderson replacement operation. I put aluminum clad wood in my 90 year old house.....no issues that I can notice and we put pella aluminum clad in @jcramsey new house a couple years ago that turned out really nice. Never used the fiberglass so no help there.

It would have been nice to been able to do the windows before the new siding.......but if 2 windows are running that much I'd hate to see what they wanted for all of them.
 
We have Andersen fibrex windows in our house and I like them. More solid feeling and sounding than other comparably priced options. Installed during new construction though. I have nothing to ad regarding replacements. 33 windows was about $15k in 2018.
 
jeepinmatt said:
We have Andersen fibrex windows in our house and I like them. More solid feeling and sounding than other comparably priced options. Installed during new construction though. I have nothing to ad regarding replacements. 33 windows was about $15k in 2018.
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That’s a heck of a deal.

During the height of COVID we did our windows. A national company called APEX. It’s a triple pane glass and they’ve been good for us. I think 13 windows was $12k installed.
 
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