Pros & Cons of Sliding Windows

It's a little less money for the customer to have just one window instead of the two. Hey guys, Sean with American Window Concepts here, and today we're gonna talk a little bit about the pros and cons of a sliding window. We have a slider here. Now, what we've done is we've actually removed a double-hung wood and another double-hung that were basically encased in the same opening. We took all that out and we went with a single sliding window. One, it's a little less money for the customer, just one window instead of the two. So, let's talk a little bit about sliding windows and their capabilities and also where they're the weakest. The thing about the sliding windows themselves is you have mole hair weather stripping as your primary against wind, dirt, things of that nature. This particular window here is a double slider. Most windows are gonna have one sliding side and then this side is a fixed panel. There's no way of moving this, but in this case, with this window, we're able to. You can either slide this side or you can slide this side, and this is just an XX window. It's a really, really nice feature to have if you wanted to remove these. Just pull it out like that. Sliding window here, you have triple-fin mole hair weather stripping. Now, this is a quarter of an inch thick, so this is really good stuff, all right? And if you get a little closer, you can see kind of how this stuff looks. It's really, really high performance. Now, this is the only thing that is going to stop wind and dirt from coming in, and you have it here on your mainframe, on your sash itself. So, I mean, this is gonna do a really good job, and then when these two sliders meet, you have your bulb seal here, so this compresses down tight when these interlock with each other, so it's a really, really nice little system. So I'll put this back. Okay, so again, we have two tracks here because we have two sliding windows, so this profile's a little bit thicker, but it's a fantastic system, so we're taking out double-hung windows and we put in a nice double-sliding window. The great thing about sliding windows is that it's a little less expensive and they do really well against sound and everything else, but they're not the highest performing against sound or wind infiltration, and that's gonna be a casement window, it always is. If there's a situation where you have high wind areas, you probably wanna go with a casement sliding window. The main thing we wanna keep in mind is that the window opening should be wider than it is tall, so if you're looking at this, you know, this is about 55 inches wide by about 48 inches tall, maybe a little bit wider. It's better to have a sliding window. Imagine trying to put some kind of a double-hung window here or something. Well, they had two double-hung side-by-side here before, but they wanted to do away with that and put in something that was gonna bring in more light. There's actually way more glass surface with a sliding window in this case than what was there originally because you had four panels of glass that was all separate and they had grids in between and things of that nature, and it was just killing a lot of the light. With this, it really brightens up the room. These are a great, great window for this type of an opening. Okay, guys, so here is our XX sliding window from the outside, and as you can see, it's got a full screen. The reason for this is because either side can slide, right? So you wanna have screen there for bugs not to be able to get past. So if we take this out, quite easy. Take your screen out, you're left with the glass here. Now, this glass here I've talked about in the past before, this is called sun matrix. It's four layers of low E, and this side, today is a very overcast day, but most times this side is getting killed with sun, and they said that this was the hottest room in their house, so we really packaged this window up, and you'll get a little bit closer here, and you're gonna see, basically, if you're looking at the vinyl from the outside and the inside, you can see how much darker it actually is, and this is a very, very high-performing glass. This is gonna keep it cool on the inside when it's blazing on the outside. Hey, guys, if you live in the Ventura or Santa Barbara area and you are interested in getting replacement windows or doors, don't hesitate to reach out to us. You can go to our website, americanwindowconcepts.com. You can click on the get a free quote and fill out that information. I'll reach out to you within 24 hours. Thank you so much. Hey, guys, thanks again for watching this video. If you wanna be kept updated on new videos that are coming out, just hit that like button and subscribe to the channel. Thank you so much.