In the Beginning

Our neighborhood, in a suburb of Minneapolis, MN is a good neighborhood. Nice yards, good neighbors, but bad windows. All our houses were built quickly, and cheaply, and the biggest expense cut, was in the windows. If you live in my neighborhood and haven't replaced your windows yet, you will soon enough. We knew the windows were bad when we bought the house and tried to push off buying replacement windows as long as we could, but this past fall (2008) we knew the time had come.

We wanted to get the windows done in the fall, to avoid another winter of putting plastic over the windows and slowly watching them ice over. (If you live in Minnesota, you know what that's like.) When we started looking for companies, we searched the entire spectrum, from the $199 per window folks, all the way up to Anderson Windows.

We finally decided on Wellington Windows. It was hard trying to find online reviews for Wellington Windows, so we had to rely on word-of-mouth. A friend of ours had Wellington Windows' vinyl replacement windows installed in their home in several stages . They had a few problems with each installation. Each time, at least one of their windows would have a blown seal and need to be replaced. And each time it would take a month or more for that replacement to arrive. But a few windows over an entire house didn't seem like that big a warning sign. And it was only a few seal failures. Little did we know that we would see the same problems, plus a whole lot more.