Products
Windows, siding and doors: the products we install, spec by spec
Thirty-seven write-ups on windows, siding and doors, filed the way we would file them in the shop: by material and rating, by installation detail, and by the paperwork side of a commercial or HOA job. Written from the clipboard, not the brochure. All thirty-seven are published: every title below opens the write-up.
How this is filed
Three categories, because there are only three kinds of question
Nearly every question that reaches the shop line is one of three things. What is this material and what do its numbers mean. How does it get installed, and what goes wrong when it does not. And what does the paperwork look like when the building is not a single house: an occupied fourplex, an HOA with an architectural committee, a bid that has to be read line by line before it is signed.
So the library is filed in three categories rather than by date. A write-up sits in exactly one of them, which is why the counts add to thirty-seven with nothing double-listed and nothing left over, and why a category has no separate address of its own.
The house rule for everything in here is the rule that governs an estimate. If a number is the manufacturer's, it is named as the manufacturer's. If a requirement belongs to a building department, the department is named. If we have not measured it or read it off a data sheet, it is described in words rather than dressed up as a figure.
Category one: 13 write-ups
Materials and ratings
What a material actually is, and what the number on its label is measuring. Frame and cladding materials compared against each other, NFRC label lines read one at a time, and the Northern Nevada load case (sun, freeze-thaw, wind and dry air) that decides which way those comparisons come out here rather than somewhere at sea level.
Category two: 15 write-ups
Installation detailing
The part of the job that decides whether the material gets to perform the way its data sheet says. Fastening, expansion, flashing order, sealing cut ends, weep paths, hardware adjustment and the seasonal service that keeps all of it working. This is the largest category on purpose: it is where the failures we get called out to actually begin.
Category three: 9 write-ups
Commercial and HOA
Exterior work where somebody other than the homeowner has to approve, schedule or pay for it: bid packages, phasing around residents, occupied-building scheduling, and the documents that travel with a job (how to read a bid line by line, what moves a quote, what a plan reviewer asks to see, and how a payment schedule lines up with the work).
Every write-up above is filed under exactly one category, and each links to its own page. Posts are added to this index as they publish.
Faster than reading
Or just describe the wall and let us answer it
The library is here because most of these questions come up before anyone calls. If yours is already at the "what do I do about it" stage, a measure visit answers it faster than any write-up will.
The shop line is (775) 391-8487, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
- We measure every opening before anything is quoted
- The estimate names the line, the series and the glass package
- Six product lines, on the brands page, with the trade-offs
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