How to Keep Your Home's Authentic Look with Proper Window Replacement

hey guys Sean with American Window Concepts and if you have a home that's in a city or a town that is in a historical area you may have to adhere to very specific styles of Windows to go with and here we go you bought a house and it's built back in 1910 1920s right and it's in a beautiful area if you're going to replace these windows you have to make sure that they're like for like most times whenever whenever you go and for us pulling a permit they're going to say well is this zoned in historical area so what they'll do is they'll look up the address and go oh yes this is a historical area so whatever style of Windows are there now they must remain they have wood windows back in 1910 1920 and you're going to go and put in a vinyl window or a fiberglass window or a metal window that's going to be a nogo and that's going to be a bad bad deal for the owner of that home if they don't do their due diligence or we ourselves don't do the due diligence and find out what is allowed in that house you can get burned up pretty good by a city make you take everything back out again on your own dime and then replace it with what they would have told you in the first place usually it's always like for like they don't want to put a vinyl window into a original wood window home if it's historical most times that's not going to be an issue but if it's a historical area you can't go go from a a wood window to a vinyl or even a steel window a lot of times they're going to say okay well listen to keep the look of the house true you need to replace that steel window with another steel window or a metal window that is comparable it's got to look the same it's got to operate the same so these are things that if you live in a historical house you're thinking oh I need to get some new windows okay oh you can do that but you might have to pay more for some of these other styles of windows that are just inherently more expensive got a wood window guess what you're going to end up having to buy a wood window to replace it with you're going to spend three times what you would most other cases so you're going to have to pay more to keep that place up Windows is one of those things guys hopefully this helps have a great day hey guys if you live in the Ventura or Long Beach area and are interested in a free in home estimate go to our website American window concepts.com and we'll reach back out to you as soon as possible if you guys find this information valuable and you want to continue to learn more about Windows and Doors subscribe to our Channel thank you so much