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I know they exist even by Pella and Andersen....but I work in other people's homes and have never seen a wood window.
Even when I worked in houses from the early last century.
Our house was built in 1971 and has wood framed windows. We can paint them any color we want but they do require repainting every 6-10 years.
Affordable windows are vinyl. Vinyl expands and contracts a lot with changes in temperature. White does not absorb heat as readily as other colors and so doesn't expand as much, risking breaking a seal. It also happens to go with most other colors and is popular. That's why most windows are white.
OK, first, even Pella and Andersen don't offer JUST total wood - "stain grade wood" because it's not as durable.
Besides the "wood" and composites, they also offer vinyl and other options.
Who made your windows? They're just 100% wood?
All the builders here offer hurricane impact windows, too in those "cheap" houses.
Really?
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Outside of windows are green aluminum- forgot the qualifier there. They're by Jeld-Wenn. We went with them because their green option went slightly better with the brick than the Anderson green color aluminum/vinyl option, Pella was coming off a bad stretch of their windows not holding up well in coastal conditions, and the local Marvin dealer option flaked out on us.
I'm up in the Panhandle where people are less concerned with windstorm than they are in south Florida, so impact windows are not as common- the McBuilders typically stash precut plywood in your garage attic to meet that part of the state building code rather than install impact glass or shutters.
As for the green and brick, it's a 1980s brick ranch house (we love a lot about out neighborhood, whether its many brick homes are 'dated' or not)and we work with that. Call it 'dated' if you want, but we fell like it's a warm and inviting home and get a ton of spontaneous compliments on how we've modernized the place while staying true to 'the bones' of it. Even the weird stone planter in the foyer that rotates between being where the Christmas tree goes and serving as an oversized cat bed the other 10.5 months a year.
The floors- aluminum oxide finish, and we picked a color we both loved at time or purchase and would morph into something we'd still love as the sun slightly changed the floor colors in the rooms where we got good light through the windows. It's still a nicely aggressive red-brown 5+ years later.
Our house was built in 1971 and has wood framed windows. We can paint them any color we want but they do require repainting every 6-10 years.
Affordable windows are vinyl. Vinyl expands and contracts a lot with changes in temperature. White does not absorb heat as readily as other colors and so doesn't expand as much, risking breaking a seal. It also happens to go with most other colors and is popular. That's why most windows are white.
Every house in my area built after 1965 or so had aluminum windows... they were originally all silver, then around 1978 they started making them in bronze, and they stayed that way until the mid 90’s when they went to white. I don’t think vinyl started being heavily used here until the early 2000’s.
Wood windows are certainly easier to replace though, the aluminum ones usually have that flange nailed to the framing behind the brick, so you’ve got to tear them apart to get them out.
Nowadays you can buy this revolutionary product that allows you to change the color of something that is a color you don't like.
It's called...
paint
I don’t know how well normal paint will adhere to vinyl, besides nowadays most have the grids between the glass, so you couldn’t get to those anyhow.
Mine have some type of coating on them that has a ten year warranty against fading, but I’m not sure if it’s paint. They are bronze outside but white inside.
Nowadays you can buy this revolutionary product that allows you to change the color of something that is a color you don't like.
It's called...
paint
You may want to be careful about painting vinyl windows. I was told that painting them (especially with a dark color) would void the warranty because they expand and contract more in direct sunlight and thus are more likely to warp or bow. Not that their warranties are all that good to begin with.
Marvin still makes good quality wood windows. You can paint them any color you want to.
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