Savannah Window Co provides professional double hung windows in Savannah, GA for residential and commercial properties across the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins. The double hung is what most of Savannah already has, and it is where our advice parts company with the industry's. Almost everywhere else the default recommendation is full-frame replacement. Here we start from the insert, and we start there for a reason worth explaining.
An insert, sometimes called a pocket replacement, removes the sash and the interior stops and drops a complete new unit into the original frame, which stays in the wall. The exterior casing, the brickmold and the plaster reveals inside are never disturbed. The job takes an hour an opening and produces almost no mess in the room.
Full-frame replacement takes everything back to the rough opening, including the jambs and the sill, then rebuilds the whole assembly. It is the right call where the frame is rotten, where the sill has failed, or where the wall is coming apart anyway. It is also invasive, and it is the version most likely to end up altering the opening.
That last point is what makes the difference here. Keeping the original frame keeps the opening the same size, which keeps the work outside the city's permit list and outside the five-year cumulative total that decides whether an older house below the flood elevation has to comply with the current ordinance. Same window, very different paperwork.
The honest cost of an insert is glass. The new frame eats into the hole on every side, commonly two or three inches of daylight across the whole unit, and on a small bathroom window you will see it. On the tall openings in the old neighborhoods and out through Guyton it is proportionally trivial, which is why the technique suits this housing stock so well. Measure the glass you actually have before deciding either way.
Within the double hung itself, buy the balance and the meeting rail rather than the marketing. Constant-force coil balances hold sash position for decades; cheap block-and-tackle systems drop a sash on your fingers by year eight. At the meeting rail you want a cam-action lock that draws both sash hard onto each other, because that joint leaks more air than anything else in the design.
A single hung, where only the bottom sash moves, costs less and leaks less because there is one fewer moving joint. On a second-story opening you will never open anyway, that is a sensible saving and we will suggest it. On anything you clean yourself, take the double hung, because both sash tilting inward is worth real money on a two-story Savannah house.
We repair these as often as we replace them. A broken balance, a failed lock, a sash that has swollen shut in August: those are parts and an afternoon, not a purchase. If somebody has quoted you eleven new windows because four of them stick, get a second opinion before you sign anything. Balances and meeting rail locks are stock parts, not special orders.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — pultruded fiberglass frames ordered to the measured opening, insert sash packs fitted inside an existing jamb, sill pans with end dams and a sloped back leg, flood-damage-resistant frame materials under FEMA Technical Bulletin 2, laminated impact glazing over a 0.090-inch interlayer, warm-edge spacers in argon-filled insulating glass units — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Savannah and nearby communities including Pooler, Garden City, Port Wentworth, Thunderbolt.
What We Handle
Everything our double hung windows in Savannah covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of double hung windows work in Savannah, GA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Savannah services.
Materials, equipment and how we do double hung windows
The difference between double hung windows that lasts and double hung windows that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with pultruded fiberglass frames ordered to the measured opening, insert sash packs fitted inside an existing jamb, sill pans with end dams and a sloped back leg, flood-damage-resistant frame materials under FEMA Technical Bulletin 2, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Savannah job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of window work in the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do double hung windows outside Savannah
Savannah Window Co covers Savannah and the surrounding communities of the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Double Hung Windows in Pooler, GA — Chatham County, population 25,711
- Double Hung Windows in Garden City, GA — Chatham County, population 10,289
- Double Hung Windows in Port Wentworth, GA — Chatham County, population 10,878
- Double Hung Windows in Thunderbolt, GA — Chatham County, population 2,556
- Double Hung Windows in Tybee Island, GA — Chatham County, population 3,114
- Double Hung Windows in Wilmington Island, GA — Chatham County, population 15,129
Start on the Savannah Window Co homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Savannah Chooses Savannah Window Co
- ✓We look up your flood zone, base flood elevation and pre-map status before a tape measure comes out, and put the answer in the quote
- ✓Openings that need a permit are priced in a separate column, with the valuation we would declare shown next to them
- ✓Every unit is ordered to the measured opening rather than trimmed or packed out to suit a stock size on a shelf
- ✓Sill pans with end dams on every installation, including the ones where nobody would ever see whether we fitted one
The standards behind double hung windows
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The double hung windows work we do in Savannah follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every double hung windows project in Savannah gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free double hung windows free estimate in Savannah, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.