Window Replacement Contractor Software in Texas

Texas splits between two ENERGY STAR climate zones. Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio sit in the South-Central zone and southeast Texas sits in the Southern zone, and in both of them the solar heat gain coefficient does the work. The summer sun on a west wall in Plano or Katy is the bill the homeowner is trying to cut, and a window with the wrong coating does not cut it. The U-factor still matters when a norther comes through, but a window that only solves winter is half a window in this state.

The coast adds a rule of its own. In the fourteen coastal counties and parts of Harris County, new windows have to be products the Texas Department of Insurance has evaluated, installed the way the evaluation says, and inspected, or the house loses its eligibility for the state windstorm pool. A window company that works Galveston or Corpus Christi builds that inspection into the schedule and the price.

Hail sells windows too. The 2016 season did more than $5 billion in damage across Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, and cracked panes and broken seals on the windward side were part of it. The 2019 deductible law applies to anyone paid from a property insurance claim, so a window contract of $1,000 or more on a claim carries the deductible notice like a roofing contract does.

The housing stock splits by age. Frisco, McKinney, Katy, Cypress, and Round Rock are 1990s and 2000s houses with builder-grade vinyl that is fogging and sticking. The 1970s and 1980s ranch houses across the state have single-pane aluminum windows that were never good, and there are a great many of them. The older neighborhoods in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio have original wood windows and openings that need a careful measure. There is no state license, and installs run all year. Custom windows run four to eight weeks from order to delivery, and the install date on the contract has to allow for it.