Benefits of replacing your windows

Your home’s windows serve both an aesthetic and functional role — letting in light and life and serving as the connector between your home and the rest of the world. Aesthetically, they’re especially important, contributing to the look of both the interior and exterior of your home. Despite this, windows are often overlooked when people start to consider improvements to their home. However, a new set of windows can improve your home in a variety of ways – by enhancing your home’s beauty, and also improving efficiency, increasing home value, and expanding your home’s comfort and livability.

Energy efficiency

After about 15 or 20 years, the sealing around your windows begins to break down, allowing air to pass through and making your home susceptible to a draft. Not only are drafts frustrating, diminishing your ability to control the temperature in your home, but they can eat at your energy bill, costing you hundreds of unnecessary dollars every year. Modern windows are more draft resistant than ever before, and homeowners can often see a return on their investment almost immediately, by way of lower monthly energy bills.

Curb appeal

While a lower energy bill is a big perk of installing new windows, the return on investment goes even further than that. Upgrading from old, outdated looking windows to new windows will modernize the look of your home – internally and externally – and will increase curb appeal when it comes time to appraise your home.

Home comfort

Upgrading to new windows means upgrading to the newest technology that comes with it, making life at home easier than ever before. Along with the draft protection that comes with new windows, modern windows also have enhancements like UV and noise protection, and improved safety measures like stronger glass and locks, and a tighter seal.

Health improvements

As the sealing around old windows begins to break down, mold may begin to grow on the drafty area. New windows can help protect your home from mold’s harmful effects and also reduce other allergens. Windows are typically a hotbed for collecting dust and allergens in your home thanks to their blinds and drapes, but some new windows have begun to place blinds in between the window panes, decreasing the collection of dust in your home.

Call on All-Pro Exteriors for an evaluation of the windows in your home and a free estimate on the cost to replace them.