Savannah Window Co provides professional wood and clad wood windows in Savannah, GA for residential and commercial properties across the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins. Clad wood is the best-looking window you can buy and the one we decline most often. Not on quality, which is excellent, but on where it is being put. In Savannah the deciding question is how high off the ground the opening sits.
Inside you get timber. Outside, a skin of aluminum, either extruded or roll-formed. You get timber in the room, a maintenance-free exterior and profiles that suit an older house better than anything molded. Extruded cladding is the one to insist on: it is thicker, holds a proper finish, and does not dent when a ladder leans on it.
The problem is what wood is, in a room that is going to be wet. FEMA's technical guidance on flood-damage-resistant materials is blunt about wood-based products below the base flood elevation, and blunter still about medium-density fiberboard and particleboard, which is what many interior trim packages actually are. Water gets into the jamb from beneath and the cladding hides it while it works.
So on a ground-floor opening at or below base flood elevation we will not sell you clad wood, and we will say why rather than steering you quietly. Vinyl or fiberglass in that opening is not a downgrade, it is the correct material selection, and the money saved is better spent on the units upstairs where nobody is arguing.
Above that line the calculation flips completely. On the second story of a raised cottage, on an elevated house out on the islands, in any room whose floor is comfortably above the flood level, clad wood is the right purchase and we fit a lot of it. Interior species matched to existing trim, factory finish outside, and profiles that do not shout.
There is a third option people forget, and on old Savannah houses it is frequently the best one. Existing sash can be repaired: epoxy consolidation at the rails, new putty glazing, replaced parting bead, working weights and pulleys restored, and a storm panel added outside. That keeps original joinery, costs less than replacement, and involves no permit and no valuation of any kind.
We will tell you when that is not realistic. Sash with rotten bottom rails on every elevation, frames that have moved with the house, and units that were painted shut for forty years pass the point where repair is honest work. At that stage a matched replacement is the better answer and we will price it as one.
If you do buy clad wood, the maintenance item is the interior, not the exterior. Coastal humidity and a hard-run air conditioner put condensation on inside glass surfaces through the summer, and that water sits on the wood bottom rail. Keep a finish on it, wipe it in the worst weeks, and the window will outlast the house. That is a five-minute habit rather than a maintenance program.
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 wood and clad wood windows in Savannah covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of wood and clad wood windows work in Savannah, GA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- wood windows savannah
- aluminum clad wood windows savannah ga
- clad wood window replacement
- wood window rot repair savannah
- extruded aluminum clad windows
- wood interior window frames
- clad wood window cost
- flood damage resistant materials fema
- wood window sill replacement
- historic house replacement windows savannah
- putty glazed sash repair
- wood window maintenance humid climate
- clad wood vs fiberglass
- true divided light windows
- wood windows below base flood elevation
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 wood and clad wood windows
The difference between wood and clad wood windows that lasts and wood and clad wood 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 wood and clad wood 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.
- Wood and Clad Wood Windows in Pooler, GA — Chatham County, population 25,711
- Wood and Clad Wood Windows in Garden City, GA — Chatham County, population 10,289
- Wood and Clad Wood Windows in Port Wentworth, GA — Chatham County, population 10,878
- Wood and Clad Wood Windows in Thunderbolt, GA — Chatham County, population 2,556
- Wood and Clad Wood Windows in Tybee Island, GA — Chatham County, population 3,114
- Wood and Clad Wood 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 wood and clad wood windows
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The wood and clad wood 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 wood and clad wood 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 wood and clad wood windows free estimate in Savannah, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.