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All About Windows and Doors with Next Door and Window · Ask The Experts

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  Thirteen ten Wiba and Ask the Experts, joined this morning by a mere con
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  sales manager with next Door and Window. Ameir, how you doing this morning?
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  I'm doing well, Sean. How are you today? I'm doing really
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  good. It's great to finally talk with you. You and I have been
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  kind of talking behind the scenes for the last last week or so and really
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  exciting stuff to talk about with next Door and Window before we got to get
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  into you know, things like consultations and you know, some of the great
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  experiences you've had educating homeowners. Let's just really quickly talk about next Door and
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  Window, a little bit about a little bit about the company, and of
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  course a little bit about you as well, Amere. Yeah, thank you,
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  Sean. We're a family owned business. We've been servicing Chicago Land for
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  over twenty one years. One of the things that we pride ourselves on is
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  customer service. We have made sure that we are very customer focused and we
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  install very good quality windows and doors, and we provide service is for clients
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  here in Chicagoland. We pride ourselves also on the fact that we have our
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  own customer service department that serves you not only for one or two year labor
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  warranty periods, but much longer than that, almost as long as you live
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  in the home. I have been with NEXT eight plus years, and we
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  promote from within, We train, teach, learn, It's all about the
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  people that makes the business. So I have been in this window and door
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  industry for twelve plus years, but with NEXT, and I found that the
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  ethics of the organization, the way we operate our business, how we conduct
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  ourselves, has set us apart from many other organizations that I have seen and
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  personally worked for in this industry. It's really neat to hear. And you
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  know, you and I were talking before we came on the air this morning
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  just about your experience, and you mentioned, of course promotions and opportunities within
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  and having that family atmosphere is such a big thing. And for folks who
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  don't know you guys are of course next door and Window a lot of folks
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  may be familiar with if you've ever listened or traveled through the Chicago area,
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  been familiar seeing your signs, heard some maybe seen a commercial or two.
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  You guys are in Madison now, aren't you, amir? Yes exactly,
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  So, we obviously worked tirelessly to create a certain business here and a reputation,
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  and one of our valued partners in our project here is Marvin Windows and
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  Doors and Marvin Infinity Windows and Doors specifically, and they saw the way we
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  were bringing this quality product and service to our clients here in Chicago, and
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  they realized that people in Madison also deserve the same level of customer service,
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  same level of project that we have been successfully doing it here, so the
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  us to bring our services to the Madison market, and a couple of years
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  ago, that's exactly what we did. We don't We're a humble company.
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  We don't make a big show off, uh you know, grandeur or anything.
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  All we do is come into your homes and I'll offer you the exact
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  same quality of products and services that has been tried and tested and proven to
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  be successful in homeowners' homes here in Chicagoland. Fantastic talking this morning with a
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  mere Economyre comes to us from next Door and Window that a website, next
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  door and Window dot com. That's next door a n D window dot Com
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  tell phone number right here in Madison six oh eight three zero two thirty six
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  thirty two thirty six thirty. I'm gonna have to edit that part out same
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  number here in Madison six oh eight three zero two thirty six thirty six.
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  That's three zero two thirty six thirty six. Let's talk a little bit about
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  the approach and one of the things that the impressed me. Obviously we'll get
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  into the we'll get into those Marvin fiberglass windows and what makes them so so
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  fantastic, But one of the things that really impresses me is that human interaction
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  is the approach that you take at next door and window. It's really a
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  consultation for homeowners. Isn't it a mirror? Absolutely? Sean so uh.
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  You know, there's a big stigma around in home projects and in home sales
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  right over the years, there's a lot of experts who have come up with
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  different models to go to a client's home and do a sale off a project.
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  And what we realized we kind of stepped back and we looked at it
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  from a consumer standpoint. I mean, I'm a homeowner, I'm a consumer
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  myself, and if I have a problem in my home, I would expect
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  an expert to come in and solve my problem, but not necessarily pushed me
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  to make a decision and whatnot. So over the years, this is this
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  is one one of our main objectives was to change the way we approach a
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  window and door replacement project in a client's home. So we've made it simple
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  really, you know, forget the ten steps, seven steps, closing tools,
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  closing methods. We don't do any of that. Our philosophy is we
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  go to a client's home. We found find out what their problems are.
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  We inspect their problems, and I would like to elaborate that step for just
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  a little bit. In order to actually be able to identify exactly what the
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  problems are and how to alleviate them, we need to do a lot of
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  training. So in our organization we are absolutely learning focused. Every one of
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  our experts that go to your home go through extensive training on construction, windows,
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  materials, product, not sales training. This is more knowledge, actual
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  knowledge of homes, actual knowledge of energy efficiency ratings and et cetera, et
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  cetera. So once we have identified the problems, we suggest we plan solutions
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  for the homeowners. We suggest and present our solutions and if that solution makes
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  sense for the homeowner, we would love to work for them. It's pretty
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  love to do this project for them. That's our philosophy. It's pretty amazing
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  to amir as we're talking about of the mir kan of next Door and Window,
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  the website Nextdoor and Window dot com. That's next Door a n D
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  Window dot Com. There's tell for a number right here in Madison, six
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  oh eight three zero two thirty six thirty six. That's six oh eight three
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  zero two thirty six thirty six for next Door and windows and UH and window
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  and UH and a mirror. One of the things that I find amazing as
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  you were just kind of talking to me about you being a homeowner as well,
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  I'm also a homeowner. I think for a lot of us. You
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  know, when we buy our home, whether we're the first owner or we've
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  were a long list of previous owners of that home, it never comes with
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  like a like a like there's a little bit of information about it, but
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  there's not a ton of information on a home. Every home is special.
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  Every home is unique. It's got its unique story, it's unique. Past
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  that consultation and having that conversation and just presenting to the homeowners what your assessment
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  and what those needs are. That's so reassuring to hear that type of philosophy.
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  And that type of approach absolutely right. I mean when it comes to
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  if you you know, look at architecture and the construction and the history of
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  homes during throughout different eras homes were built ever so slightly differently, right,
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  and then different areas of different cities and towns have different types of homes,
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  you know, masonry homes, cinder block homes, framed houses, some of
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  them have different types of window solutions and door solutions. And understanding all those
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  different intricacies, there is not there is no one approach and one method to
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  all of it. Right, the very common thing that happens to homeowners myself
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  included. Right, I'm a window, door and construction specialist. Except I'll
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  give you a perfect example. My water heater goes out. Right, I'm
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  not a water heater specialist. I haven't done the research. I have not
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  done trained myself to know everything about water heaters and how the plumbing needs to
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  be, where the pipes need to be, what are the tolerance is required?
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  I don't know that. So I'm hoping when I call a company for
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  a water heater, he comes in and she comes in, they're able to
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  give me that expert knowledge and that's exactly what we do here. It's not
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  all the same solution for it's not one size fits all situation. It is
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  always customized, it is always curtailed to your home. And what we will
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  do for you is we will teach you. We will quite literally educate you
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  on what you're looking at, what the issues are, and here are the
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  recommended proper solutions to your issues. That is a really really for a homeowner.
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  You get you get that learning experience, that opportunity to actually sit down
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  with an expert, sit down with the pro That's one of the fantastic things
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  about working with a Mirror and the team at next Door and Window, the
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  website next door and Window dot com. Tell for number six oh eight three
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  zero two thirty six thirty six. That's six oh eight three zero two thirty
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  six thirty six. You mentioned earlier Marvin Infinity windows and doors. Let's talk
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  about those Marvin fiberglass windows and doors and what makes them so special compared to
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  some of the other products that are available out there. Fantastic course, thank
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  you Sean for that opportunity. When it comes to windows and doors, effectively,
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  there are five different types of materials that were made with one of them
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  is commercial grade made out of aluminum, and aluminum is not a very good
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  material for residential windows and doors because it's a very highly conductive material and in
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  areas like Chicago, Madison and stuff, we get very low temperatures in the
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  cold months. So regardless of that, then you have wood windows. Right.
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  Woodwindows have been around for over one hundred years. Really, except wood
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  windows do require a tremendous amount of maintenance. Now, don't get me wrong.
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  If you maintain wood windows by keeping them stained and painted and protected from
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  the elements, you could make it last thirty forty years, but it does
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  require a tremendous amount of time commitment to that. On the other end of
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  the spectrum, in the late seventies or so, vinyl windows were invented.
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  Vinyl windows were supposed to be that alternative to wood windows. There would be
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  a material that would work without maintenance. That's all there is to it.
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  But the idea behind the vinyl, as we have found out over the years,
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  is the plastic based product does not have physical longevity. While the material
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  will last a long time as a window unit, the material expands in contracts
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  so much to temperature changes that you lose operational longevity of the window. Gaps
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  started opening up and the whole material and the whole window gets warped with age
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  as early as seven eight years nowadays, unfortunately, and this is all data
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  that is available on reviews on the web. So there are some companies that
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  have tried some composite solutions to this to make it less malleable, less more
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  stable, more stronger. Marvin, you know again, one hundred plus year
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  old company, when they were trying to come up with an alternative to their
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  legendary high quality wood window like the Signature series, they did not want to
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  go to a material that would not work for the whole country. This was
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  the key that was one of their directives that we want to make an alternative
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  window that is as good as our top of the line heavy duty wood window,
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  not a cheaper alternative. See, when it comes to developing anything,
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  it's very critical to understand what is the objective. Are you just trying to
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  sell more windows or are you actually trying to come up with something that is
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  just as good as the other one but solves the other purpose of being maintenance
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  free as well. So fiberglass as a material is completely Thermo set. It
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  is eight times stronger than its vinyl counterpart. And when I say stronger,
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  I'm only talking about flexual strength, as in flexing. Windows and doors do
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  not necessarily require a lot of impact strength. People are not going to hammer
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  your door frame. If they want to break in, they're going to break
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  the glass. It's all about the structural integrity of the window. If it
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  stays nice and square and true for a longer period of time, that's when
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  you will enjoy a good operating window for a longer period of time. That's
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  all there is to it. Fixing windows and replacing windows more than once in
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  the in a homeowner's ownership cycle is just a waste of money. Those are
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  These are structural replacements and repairs that you should not necessarily have to do more
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  than once in your ownership cycle of a home. That's what Marvin Infinity provides,
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  a window that is engineered and designed to last quite literally decades because the
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  material is so strong. Now a lot of people say it's going to last
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  forty years, fifty years. Well, we at next own window always like
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  to speak in facts. This Marvin's fiberglass was introduced in nineteen ninety five,
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  the Marvin Infinity product was introduced in two thousand and one, and to date
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  we have millions of units on a field installed and we are not seeing catastrophic
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  failures of this unit. That is amazing. And you talk about this is
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  so that's twenty three years wow. And you talk about being a homeowner,
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  and you know, you think about windows. You mentioned, you know what
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  it was great at a time, it was fantastic, but a ton of
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  work. Having windows that are gonna last, They're gonna look beautiful, not
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  gonna require maintenance or any work from you. And again eight times stronger than
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  Vinyl. Marvin fiberglass windows of course installed by next Door and Window. Today
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  is the day if you've got questions. Maybe you've got questions about how your
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  house is performing. Are those windows living up to their potential? How about
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  your entryway or other doors in your house? Great day to day pick up
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  phone. Give them a call at next Door and Window telephone number six oh
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  eight three zero two thirty six thirty six. That's six oh eight three zero
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  two thirty six thirty six online next Door and Window dot com. Amir,
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  it's been great chatting with you, and we'll do it all again. In
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  seven days. Thank you so on w Sewan, have a good day.
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  More of Madison in the morning is next right here on thirteen ten WI B A.