Anaheim Elite Windows: Residential & Commercial Window Replacement, Repair and Installation
Title 24 compliant low-E replacement windows, vinyl and fiberglass frames, patio doors and storefront glass. Free in-home measure across Orange County from a licensed, insured crew.
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Anaheim Elite Windows is a licensed and insured window contractor with over 20 years of experience installing, replacing, and repairing windows for residential and commercial properties in Anaheim, CA.
Our work covers full-frame and insert replacement windows, new-construction installs, double-hung and single-hung sashes, casement and awning units, horizontal sliders, bay and bow assemblies, picture and architectural glass, egress windows, patio and sliding glass doors, French doors, entry doors, insulated glass unit replacement, skylights, and commercial storefront and curtain wall glazing.
We work in vinyl, fiberglass, composite, aluminum, and clad-wood frames, glazed with dual-pane and triple-pane insulated glass, soft-coat low-E coatings, argon and krypton gas fill, warm-edge spacers, laminated safety glass, tempered glass, and obscure or acoustic glass packages.
Every unit we quote carries an NFRC label, and we size the glass package to hit the U-factor and solar heat gain coefficient the 2022 Title 24 energy standards ask for in the inland Orange County climate zone, rather than selling you the cheapest sticker in the catalog.
Anaheim Elite Windows is licensed by the CSLB, fully insured and bonded, installs to AAMA and NAFS guidelines, and backs every job with a written workmanship warranty on top of the manufacturer glass and frame coverage. Se habla español, and the in-home measure is free.
Window Work We Do in Anaheim
Full Window Replacement
A whole-house replacement is not really a purchase. It is a week of your own house belonging to somebody else.
Residential Window Installation
What you buy on an installation day is mostly invisible by evening. The trim goes back on, the stucco is never opened, and everything deciding whether that opening stays dry sits behind both.
Commercial Window Installation
Commercial glazing answers to three things house windows do not: a design pressure, an accessibility standard at the entrance, and a tenant who cannot afford to close. That combination is why it is a separate trade, run by a separate crew, on a separate schedule.
Energy-Efficient Window Installation
California publishes a table that settles this argument. In the 2025 standards, effective the first of January, Anaheim sits in Climate Zone 8 with a maximum window U-factor of 0.30 and a maximum solar heat gain coefficient of 0.23.
Vinyl Window Replacement
Vinyl is the right frame for most Anaheim houses and the wrong one for a few, and what decides it is the opening the window has to land in rather than anything about the vinyl. So we look at the wall before we price the unit.
Wood Window Replacement
Wood and clad-wood windows are what a period house needs, and a vinyl slider in a 1920s Craftsman opening will look wrong from the sidewalk for as long as you own the place. Clad-wood solves the maintenance problem that scares people off timber: a solid wood interior for the room, wrapped in an extruded aluminum or fiberglass exterior that never gets painted.
Aluminum Window Replacement
Most people who search this are identifying what they already have, not shopping for new aluminum. Anaheim is mostly 1950s and 1960s tract build-out, and that era hung nail-fin aluminum frames behind the stucco.
Bay and Bow Windows
A bay projects past the wall plane, and that makes it three questions deep rather than one: structural, roofing, and zoning. The outfits that quote it as a window swap are the reason we get so many calls about bays that have settled.
Broken Window Glass Installation
Read this before calling. A cracked lite in a window otherwise fine is a glazing job, priced small, and any glazier can reglaze it for a fraction of what a project costs.
Casement Window Replacement
A casement cranks one sash outward until it compresses against the weatherstrip. An awning is the same hardware hinged at the top.
Custom Window Installation
An arch is not a size. It is a radius, a spring line, and a sill that may not be level, and none of those three sit in a catalog.
Double-Pane Window Replacement
Double pane is not an upgrade. It is what a replacement window already is, and has been for decades.
Egress Windows
A bedroom is legal or it is not, and the California Residential Code decides it with one measurement: the clear opening you get with the sash all the way open. Anaheim was built in waves, and which wave your house came from tells us most of what the job costs.
Fiberglass Window Replacement
Our vinyl page sends people here. A dark laminated finish on a hard west wall is where vinyl stops being the right answer, and fiberglass is where that referral lands.
French Doors
French doors are the best-looking way to get to a patio and the easiest to install badly. Get the hanging wrong and within two years the pair sags, the astragal stops meeting in the middle, there is a draft down the center of the opening and the lock only engages if you lean on the door.
Impact Window Installation
Anaheim sits in no wind-borne debris region, and nothing in California's code turns laminated glass into hurricane protection. So this page starts by saying what the product is actually worth here: forced-entry resistance, quiet, and ultraviolet control.
Low-E Glass Window Installation
Low-E is a coating, not a tint. It is metal, laid onto glass in a layer far too thin to see, and it is the single component that decides how an Anaheim room feels at four on an August afternoon.
Retrofit Windows
Retrofit or full frame is not a product choice, it is a decision about the wall. In Anaheim it can change from one side of a single house to the other, so we make the call opening by opening at the measure rather than once over the phone.
Sliding Window Door Replacement
A horizontal slider is the only window in an Anaheim house with an open channel facing the sky, and an offshore wind fills that channel with fine grit. Nearly every slider complaint we are called about traces back to what is sitting in the track.
Storefront Window Installation
Most of a storefront is glass, and most of the trouble is in the two feet nobody looks at. The base under the vision glass decides how a frontage survives being a frontage, and it is the part that gets drawn last.
Title 24 Compliant Windows
Title 24 compliant windows are judged by the inspector on one thing: what the NFRC label says. California's Building Energy Efficiency Standards set a maximum U-factor and a maximum solar heat gain coefficient for replacement fenestration, and if the sticker on the glass does not meet them, the job does not pass.
Triple-Pane Window Installation
A third pane does one thing well. It slows heat leaving a house in winter, and Anaheim does not have enough winter for that to pay.
Why Anaheim Chooses Anaheim Elite Windows
- ✓Over 20 years installing and replacing windows across Orange County
- ✓Residential and commercial, from single-family homes to retail storefronts and office glazing
- ✓In-house installers, never subcontractors you have never met
- ✓Glass packages sized to the U-factor and SHGC that Title 24 asks for in inland Orange County
- ✓Itemized quotes per opening, so you can see exactly what each window costs
- ✓Licensed by the CSLB, fully insured and bonded, with a written workmanship warranty
- ✓Se habla español
About Anaheim Elite Windows in Anaheim, CA
Anaheim Elite Windows has spent over 20 years pulling old windows out of Orange County houses and putting better ones in. We started as a two-man crew doing retrofit inserts in postwar tract homes off Ball Road and grew the way you would want a window company to grow, which is slowly and by referral.
Today we handle single-pane glass swaps, whole-home replacements, custom bay and bow assemblies, patio and entry door packages, and commercial storefront glazing, and we still run every job with our own in-house installers rather than handing your house to a subcontractor you have never met.
The part nobody tells you about windows is that the unit matters less than the opening it goes into. A $1,200 fiberglass window installed over rotted framing with no flashing will leak sooner than a $500 vinyl unit set correctly.
So we measure every opening in three places, check the sill and the framing before we order anything, shim plumb and square, insulate the perimeter with low-expansion foam, flash the head and sill, and seal the exterior with a sealant rated for real movement. That is also why we quote per opening.
When a bid is one number for the whole house, you cannot see what you are being charged for.
We help you pick the glass rather than selling you a brand.
That means reading the NFRC label out loud with you, explaining what the U-factor and the solar heat gain coefficient actually do in the inland Orange County sun, and steering you to a double-silver or triple-silver soft-coat low-E with argon fill and a warm-edge spacer instead of an upsell you do not need.
We are licensed by the CSLB, fully insured and bonded, install to AAMA and NAFS guidelines, and back every installation with a written workmanship warranty. Se habla español, and the in-home measure is free.
Service Areas
Anaheim Elite Windows serves Anaheim, CA and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
1. Measure and quote
We measure every opening in three places for width and height, check the sill for rot and out-of-square framing, and walk you through frame material, glass package, and NFRC numbers. You get an itemized quote per opening, not a lump sum you have to take on faith.
2. Order and schedule
Custom units are built to your measurements, which usually takes three to six weeks depending on the manufacturer and whether the glass is laminated. We set a firm install date once the order lands, and the same in-house crew handles your job start to finish.
3. Install, flash and seal
Old sashes come out, the opening gets checked and shimmed plumb and square, then we set the new unit, insulate the perimeter with low-expansion foam, flash the head and sill, and seal the exterior with a joint sealant rated for movement. Retrofit or full-frame, the water management is the part that decides whether a window lasts.
4. Inspect and warranty
We operate every sash and lock with you, check the reveals, haul away the old units and the packaging, and hand over the NFRC labels and warranty paperwork. If something sticks or whistles six months later, call us and we come back.
Recent Projects Across Orange County
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What Anaheim Customers Say
Replaced fourteen windows with low-E units and the back bedroom finally stopped being an oven by two in the afternoon. They quoted per opening so I could see exactly what I was paying for, and the crew sealed and flashed everything properly.
Got three quotes. These were the only ones who actually read the NFRC label to me and explained what the solar heat gain number meant. Install took two days, the stucco was untouched, and the inspector signed off with no notes.
Our patio slider had been fighting us for years. They rebuilt the rollers and the track for a fraction of what another company quoted for a whole new door. Told me straight that the door itself was fine. That is rare.
Two fogged windows and a cracked pane. They swapped just the insulated glass units instead of pushing full replacements, matched the sightline exactly, and were done in one visit. Honest pricing and no upsell.
Commercial Window, Storefront & Curtain Wall Glazing in Anaheim & Orange County
We glaze retail centers, offices, medical suites, restaurants, light industrial buildings, and apartment and condo communities across Orange County. That covers aluminum storefront framing and thermally broken systems, entrance doors with closers and panic hardware, window wall and curtain wall, insulated and laminated safety glass, tempered glass to code, spandrel panels, and emergency board-up followed by a permanent glass replacement.
Commercial glass is a different animal from residential: it is engineered to a design pressure, it has to satisfy the building department and often the tenant's insurer, and it usually has to go in without shutting the business down.
We handle the permit set, we schedule after hours or weekends when the storefront has to stay open, and we can put multi-property owners on a scheduled replacement program instead of a string of emergency calls.
- ✓Aluminum storefront framing and thermally broken systems
- ✓Curtain wall and window wall glazing
- ✓Entrance doors, closers and panic hardware
- ✓Insulated, tempered and laminated safety glass to code
- ✓Offices, medical suites, retail centers and restaurants
- ✓Apartment, condo and HOA window replacement programs
- ✓After-hours and weekend installation so you stay open
- ✓Emergency board-up and permanent glass replacement
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does window replacement cost in Anaheim?
Vinyl retrofit replacement windows in Orange County generally land between $400 and $900 per window installed. Fiberglass and clad-wood run higher, roughly $800 to $1,600, and laminated impact or acoustic glass adds a few hundred more per opening. Full-frame replacement, where the old frame and nail fin come out down to the studs, costs more than a retrofit insert because there is stucco and trim work involved. We quote per opening after the measure.
Do I need triple-pane windows in Southern California?
Honestly, no. Triple pane earns its money in Minnesota, not in a climate where the design problem is keeping the sun out rather than keeping the furnace in. In Anaheim, a good dual-pane unit with a double-silver or triple-silver soft-coat low-E, argon fill and a warm-edge spacer will beat a cheap triple pane on solar heat gain and cost less. Spend the money on the coating and the install, not on the third lite.
What does Title 24 require for replacement windows?
California's Building Energy Efficiency Standards set maximum U-factor and maximum solar heat gain coefficient values for new and replacement fenestration, and the numbers are verified off the NFRC label on the unit. Inland Orange County sits in one of the hotter California Energy Commission climate zones, so the solar heat gain limit is the binding constraint on most jobs. We pull glass packages that meet the current prescriptive numbers and leave you the labels for the inspector.
How long does a whole-home window installation take?
Ten to fifteen openings is normally one to two days of install once the units arrive. Retrofit inserts go faster than full-frame replacement because the exterior finish stays put. The long part is manufacturing, not installation, so the honest timeline from deposit to finished job is usually four to seven weeks.
Can you just replace the glass instead of the whole window?
Often, yes, and we will tell you when that is the better call. If the frame is sound and the sash operates but the glass is fogged or has a failed seal, an insulated glass unit swap is a fraction of the cost of a new window. If the frame is warped, the balances are shot, or the unit is a 1960s single-pane aluminum slider, replacing the glass is throwing good money after bad.
Do you handle commercial storefront and office glass?
Yes. We install and replace aluminum storefront framing, entrance doors and closers, window wall and curtain wall glazing, tempered and laminated safety glass, and insulated units for retail centers, offices, medical suites, and apartment and condo communities across Orange County. We can also schedule the work after hours so your business stays open.