The guy at Home Depot used this line yesterday, I’m sure he gets a lot of mileage out of it.
Weekend before last we started our foray into the world of windows with a million questions. We spent about 45 minutes at Lowes watching a bespectacled old man click through screen after screen of options (grille or no grille? prairie or colonial? aluminum or vinyl? low e? tempered?) which then spat out a giant number and a lot of unintelligible model numbers and specifications. A few days later we went through the same drill at Home Depot only this time for Andersen windows.
Somehow I hoped that a purchase roughly equivalent to my first year’s starting salary would be a little bit more informed.
So we haven’t made any final decisions yet but after considering all the details, options, and prices we are leaning toward Integrity windows given the fact that they *seem* to be of comparable quality and slightly lower cost, and they have come reasonably well recommended from those that we have talked to.
I’ve been having panic attacks the past few days when every Google search I do on the major manufacturers has 3 of the top 10 posts dealing with CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS.
More details on decision criteria, features, etc. to come. My suggestion is to read a lot, panic a little, then repeat.