Ames Window Replacement & Retrofit — Insured

Ames sits in Story County with a population of roughly 66,427 at the 2020 census, close enough to Des Moines that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Iowa State University campus, Ada Hayden Heritage Park.

Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Ames properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Story County, and a window contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.

Call (866) 240-3787 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Ames, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.

We also serve Urbandale, IA and the rest of Greater Des Moines. Everything starts at the Des Moines Window Pros homepage.

Des Moines Window Pros covers the same range of work in Ames that we do in Des Moines — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:

• Sliding Patio Doors — A patio slider is the single largest hole in most houses, and it is one of the very few places where we will tell you to spend on glass before you spend on the attic. Six or eight feet of moving assembly leaks more than a wall of windows does.
• French and Hinged Patio Doors — A hinged patio door seals better than a slider and costs considerably more to get right. Both halves of that sentence matter, and which half dominates depends entirely on how much swing space the room has and how the existing opening was framed.
• Entry Doors, Sidelites and Service Doors — This is the page where we openly reverse the usual order. In a heating climate the front door, the service door and the door from the house into the garage will usually return more comfort per dollar than any window on the same elevation.
• Glass Repair and Insulated Glass Unit Replacement — A fogged window almost never needs a new window. The insulated glass unit inside the sash has lost its edge seal, and in most cases that unit comes out and a new one goes back in while the frame, the hardware and the interior trim stay where they are.
• Commercial Storefront and Entrance Glass — On a commercial front the money almost never belongs in the glass first. Doors, closers, thresholds and the perimeter sealant joint all fail long before the glazing does, and they are what your customers and your heating bill actually notice about the building.
• High-Performance Glazing and Energy-Efficient Windows — Before we quote glass we ask what the attic measures. The Department of Energy puts heat gain and heat loss through windows at 25 to 30 percent of residential heating and cooling energy use, which leaves roughly three quarters of the problem somewhere else in the house.

See the full list of Des Moines services, or call (866) 240-3787.