
American Exteriors
About us
American Exteriors LLC has been offering custom built replacement windows and maintenance free siding products to residents throughout the Midwest and Western United States since 1983. In fact, we continue to grow daily. Homeowners that are looking for replacement windows or vinyl siding reach out to American Exteriors daily- and the reason why is American Exteriors not only sells exterior replacement products, we manufacture them as well.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Siding Replacement, Soffit & Fascia Replacement, We offer custom Window Replacement, and Exterior Door Replacement.
Amenities
Emergency Services
Yes
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
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The salesperson came to our home and was very personable. He talked about the windows and showed us why their windows were better than their competitors. He talked a lot about how they'd give us a discount on our windows because of the location of our property and if we'd put up a sign in our yard to help them advertise. It sounded great at the time but I think it's all part of their sales pitch. I probably could have talked the price down further now that I think about it. But they seemed to have a quality product and we went ahead with the sale.
A few weeks later American Exterior's called us again to schedule the installation. We set a date. Again, they called us and said the installer was running behind on a job and we rescheduled the install a couple days later. The installer came out and I had all the furniture pulled away from the windows for them and had taken down the blinds to make his job as easy as possible. We have wood floors in our home and I was expecting the installer to put some kind of tarp down on the floor. He did not. But he was fairly careful and didn't cause any damage except for a couple scrapes on the wall and some dirty hand prints on the interior paint. But really not bad considering the work that was done to remove the windows. He did break a couple of my exterior window well covers and I had to bring it up to him at the end of the job but he paid me cash to replace them.
The installer removed all nine windows and put the nine new windows in on the first day except that they did not trim the outside of the windows. He told me he had to pick up his kids at school and that he'd come back the next day to finish the job. I had kids myself in the past so said... "No problem!" The next day we had a Spring snow storm and he didn't come but rescheduled to the following day.
It gave me an extra day to take a closer look at the windows. The installer DID NOT use as much foam insulation to seal the exterior of the windows as I would have. There were places were I could stick a whole finger in around the windows. There were also places where I could look from the inside of the window to the outside and see light and feel cool air coming in. But I figured he'd seal everything up when he came back to put the trim on. He did not!
The installer finished the job and asked me to sign his installation sheet and he was gone. The next day it got really cold and I felt air blowing in around the windows. I called the regional manager and complained and he said he'd be out on Friday to look the job over. I also asked him not to send the same installer back. But the regional manager never showed up but the installer called me. I told him the problems I was having and he said he'd be by in a couple days to look things over. He didn't show and I called the regional manager again.
Finally, the regional manager sent out another crew. They looked at things and thought the original installer didn't do a horrible job. They did discover that the original installer had not sprayed foam insulation in on the top & bottoms of the windows. They did this and then one of the installers asked if I wanted to have another layer of silicon sealer put on all the windows on the inside. I said, "Sure!" Sadly, the installer managed to smear more sealer on the windows in the wrong places and all and all made things look worse. I'd pretty much had it with all of American Exteriors installers and decided I'd just fix any remaining issues myself.
I think we've got some good quality windows but I really won't know until they've been in about 10 years. But I was horribly disappointed in the quality of the installers.
"Thank you so much for the great feedback. We are happy that you love your new siding and trust you are staying nice and cozy this winter!"
The install crew had to remove 4 large beams from the front windows. They made it look easy and metal wrapped the windows.
Now it looks like a new house.
I am very happy with the way crew cleaned up every day and they started on time every day.
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