I am a custom home builder in a high end reort town in Colorado and have been using Pella for years. I have used other window companies in the past such as Sierra Pathetic, Kolbe & Kolbe, Marvin and Loewen. I would have to say that for the price and product Pella beats everyone. They have the best engineered window for performance out of any other window company. They have the best air infiltration ratings wich is probably the most important rating above else.
Let me say that anybody who would take their set of prints for a new home or remodel to Lowes is a dumb ass(i.e. Pella stinks). You deserve what you get in bad service. Let me tell you that Lowes is ran by Pella corp and the local branches get stuck servicing Lowes sold jobs. My rep always tells me that people who have service issues from windows they bought at Lowes, 84 Luber etc go to the bottom of the priority list for service. Makes sense since the local Pella branch never made $ on the sale why would they go out and spend resources and $ to service it.
If you are looking to build a new home, remodel or replace I would deal directly with a Pella rep from the local branch. Not some $9.00 per hour Lowes employee who sells every product under the sun.
As for other comparisons to windows I believe Pella succeeds all others except maybe Loewen. But who would buy canadian anyway? Unless you voted for Obama.
I am a custom home builder in a high end reort town in Colorado and have been using Pella for years. I have used other window companies in the past such as Sierra Pathetic, Kolbe & Kolbe, Marvin and Loewen. I would have to say that for the price and product Pella beats everyone. They have the best engineered window for performance out of any other window company. They have the best air infiltration ratings wich is probably the most important rating above else.
Let me say that anybody who would take their set of prints for a new home or remodel to Lowes is a dumb ass(i.e. Pella stinks). You deserve what you get in bad service. Let me tell you that Lowes is ran by Pella corp and the local branches get stuck servicing Lowes sold jobs. My rep always tells me that people who have service issues from windows they bought at Lowes, 84 Luber etc go to the bottom of the priority list for service. Makes sense since the local Pella branch never made $ on the sale why would they go out and spend resources and $ to service it.
If you are looking to build a new home, remodel or replace I would deal directly with a Pella rep from the local branch. Not some $9.00 per hour Lowes employee who sells every product under the sun.
As for other comparisons to windows I believe Pella succeeds all others except maybe Loewen. But who would buy canadian anyway? Unless you voted for Obama.
Posted by: Resortbuilder at June 13, 2009 12:58 PM in response to Pella Windows