About Portland ME Window Replacement: Licensed Window Pros in ME
We replace and repair windows, doors and glass in Portland, Maine and the towns around Casco Bay, from South Portland and Cape Elizabeth up through Yarmouth and Freeport, west to Gray and Standish, and along the Kennebec into Bath, Topsham and Woolwich. Residential and commercial, single openings and whole houses.
The trade we work in is unregulated by the state, and we would rather say that plainly than paper over it. No license exists to show you. So we work to the two documents that do exist: the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code, and a written contract that meets Title 10, chapter 219-A whether the job is large enough to require one or not.
Do not hire us if your reason is the heating bill. Efficiency Maine will pay a substantial share of a heat pump or an insulation job and nothing toward glass, and we would be taking your money out of order. Call us when sash will not close, when a bedroom fails egress, when a unit has fogged, or when the frames themselves have gone.
If you have a window project in Portland, the fastest way to get a real number is a free on-site estimate. See every Portland service we handle, check whether we cover South Portland, ME and the rest of Greater Portland and the Casco Bay towns, or go back to the Portland ME Window Replacement homepage to start. You can also reach us directly on (844) 511-2320.
Credentials
- License: Maine issues no license for glazing, window installation or general contracting. The Division of Building Codes and Standards lists the construction trades Title 32 does license - electricians, plumbers, architects, elevator and boiler work - and this trade is not among them. We hold none of those and we will not imply otherwise. The one license this trade does touch is the door-to-door home repair sales license under Title 32, chapter 128.
- Insurance: Liability cover and workers' compensation are both in force, and we ask the carrier to send your certificate to your own address rather than forwarding a copy of ours. In a trade where no board has ever vetted anybody, a policy you confirmed at its source is one of the few facts about a bidder you can establish without taking somebody's word.
- Association: We do not canvass door to door, so we hold no door-to-door sales license under Title 32, section 14504, and we say so rather than dressing the absence up as a credential. If a quote reached you because somebody knocked, section 14506 requires their number on the contract in the words "State door-to-door sales license #:". Check for it.
- Warranty: Our workmanship warranty is printed on the estimate you read before signing, not produced afterwards, with the term and every exclusion on the same page. Alongside it we hand over the job file: the unit schedule, the certified labels, the clear-opening measurements for any sleeping room, and photographs of each opening taken before it was closed up.
How Portland ME Window Replacement works
How a job with Portland ME Window Replacement runs, start to finish
Site visit first, always. We measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and ask what you are actually trying to solve — then you get an itemized free estimate in writing with materials, scope and a realistic date on it.
Once the work starts, the same crew stays on the job until it is done. We protect the surrounding area, clean up daily, and tell you the moment something under the surface changes the plan, because the alternative is a surprise invoice and nobody wants that conversation. Our workmanship warranty is printed on the estimate you read before signing, not produced afterwards, with the term and every exclusion on the same page. Alongside it we hand over the job file: the unit schedule, the certified labels, the clear-opening measurements for any sleeping room, and photographs of each opening taken before it was closed up. backs the finished work.
What we will not do
We do not quote a window job over the phone, take deposits before a written scope exists, or bid work we are not set up to do properly. If your project needs a different trade, we say so and point you at someone who does it well. Losing a job is cheaper than doing one badly in Portland.
Where Portland ME Window Replacement works and who we work with
Portland, ME first, then the surrounding communities of Greater Portland and the Casco Bay towns: South Portland, Biddeford, Scarborough, Brunswick, Westbrook, Saco, Windham, Gorham and more. Each of those has its own page with local detail rather than a copy of this one.
Work splits roughly between homeowners and commercial property — offices, retail, restaurants, apartment complexes and HOA boards across Greater Portland and the Casco Bay towns. Start with the Portland services, the Portland ME Window Replacement homepage, or just call (844) 511-2320.
Why Portland Chooses Portland ME Window Replacement
- ✓We put your municipality's 2020 census count on the estimate and state whether Title 10, section 9724 obliges it to enforce the code or leaves the choice to the town. No other quote you get will tell you that, and it changes who is checking the work.
- ✓Openings are priced one at a time and marked repair, insert or full-frame. A sound sash with a failed cord is a two-hour repair, and inside a whole-house number that repair silently becomes a replacement you paid full price for.
- ✓We will tell you to spend the money on air sealing and insulation instead when that is the honest answer, because Efficiency Maine pays toward those and nothing toward glass. We would rather lose a job than sell you a payback that does not exist.
- ✓In towns under 4,000 residents, where nobody is required to inspect, we price an independent third-party inspector certified under Chapter 3 as an optional line. You can strike it. Most people looking at a bay or a cut foundation opening do not.
- ✓Written contract terms go on every job including commercial and four-unit buildings, where the Home Construction Contracts Act does not reach and no statute requires anything of us at all. We also never ask anybody to waive the chapter under section 1489.
- ✓Certified whole-unit labels stay on the glass until you have signed the work off, and clear-opening dimensions for every sleeping room are written on the estimate so you can check the egress numbers against the code yourself.
What Portland Customers Say
They talked me out of half the order. Eleven openings quoted, four marked as repairs with the reason written next to them, and the parlor sash we thought were finished just needed cords and a little glazing. The four full-frame units went in over two days and the sill pan detail was explained before anybody started.
Ours was the only quote that mentioned a permit at all. The estimate had the town population on it and a line explaining why the code office would want to see the enlarged opening. Everything else we had been sent was a price and a brand name. That alone decided it for us.
Two fogged units in the dining room. I expected to be sold the whole elevation and instead got glass only, in the sash we already had, at about a fifth of what the last company quoted. They wrote the coating and spacer type on the order and left the labels on until I looked at them.
Basement bedroom for our daughter and I had no idea about the sill height rule. They measured the clear opening, told me the slider I had picked would fail on height, and put a casement in the cut opening instead. The inspector they arranged went through it with me at the end.
Service Areas
Portland ME Window Replacement serves Portland, ME and surrounding communities including: