Straight answers about glass, windows and Sacramento houses

A break-in or a smashed display window costs you trading hours, not just glass. Here is the order to do things in, what your insurer will want, and why the replacement glass is not a shelf item.

Before you spend on whole-house window replacement, know where the heat is actually coming in – and which cheaper fixes do most of the work in a Valley summer.

The City asks owners to repair historic windows before replacing them, discourages vinyl, and suggests weather-stripping single-pane wood rather than going dual-pane. Here is what that means in practice.

Almost always, yes – and it costs a fraction of a full window replacement. Here is when glass-only works, when it does not, and what the job involves.

Fog inside a double-pane window means the seal has failed – here is what actually causes it in Sacramento, why cleaning never works, and what the repair involves.