Never did hear much good about Jeld-Wen products.

I will stick with Window World (1), Anderson (2) and Pella (3).

aculver:

Thanks. This post should be on the monitor of Jeld-Wen's CEO.

another picture. The pin light in the left end of the sash on the right window is where the previous picture was taken....

Trebruchet: Actually sent a letter and email it to the CEO. Maybe I should post an open letter to him. Seriously considered buying advertising space in the local news paper in the town of their headquarters to post an open letter to Jeldwen to see if I could get a response from other than legal...

Jeld-Wen entered the window business by buying a millwork company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. They did the same with window companies in the 90's with Pozzi, Caradco and Norco and gave them different model names under the Jeld-Wen brand name.

My point is that that the different Jeld-Wen window models have little in common other than being owned by the same very large American company.

The same is true of their vinyl windows. Who knows how J-W bought their PVC windows or where they are made or if the different models came from the purchase of one company. I suspect not.

I used many of these windows in the 80's but now it is too difficult to understand the differences so I tend to use windows from companies who have a long history of designing their own windows.

I help my clients choose so I have to be very careful to meet their expectations. I have never seriously considered using an all-plastic window in a building because they aren't strong enough, expand too much with temperature changes and shatter in cold weather or with age. Any of those characteristics would be enough for me to avoid them.