Carlsbad Quality Windows is the coastal North County's premier team in period-correct window replacement, specializing in clad-wood casements, simulated divided lites, and templated arched windows. We offer fiberglass picture windows and French door pairs for older homes.
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Our team provides on-site arch templating, delivering original-looking elevations for homes and matched replacements for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by 13 years in business and our 2-year workmanship warranty on every installation, we've completed over 1,730 projects, from one cottage casement to whole-house estate replacements.
From the muntin pattern on a street-side casement to a sill pan that sheds lagoon fog, our team handles every detail. Serving Del Mar and neighboring Solana Beach, Rancho Santa Fe and Encinitas, we treat each older house as the one-off it is.
Anne, Old Del Mar, Del Mar
Old Del Mar Tudor Revival cottage with rotted wood casements on the street side
Robert, Del Mar Heights, Del Mar
Spanish Colonial Revival home with four arched windows whose old frames had warped out of round
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Why Carlsbad Quality Windows
Anne in Old Del Mar had rotted wood casements across the street side of her Tudor Revival cottage, so we replicated the divided-lite pattern in six clad-wood casements, an estimated $4,800 to $6,600 replication completed in roughly 1 to 2 days by our estimate.
Robert in Del Mar Heights had four arched windows whose old frames had warped out of round on his Spanish Colonial Revival home, so we templated each arch and set fixed fiberglass units cut to the exact radius, an estimated $3,800 to $5,600 job over roughly 1 to 2 days by our estimate.
Del Mar windows are a style question before they are a price question, because the town grew around two traditions: Tudor Revival cottages from the South Coast Land Company era in Old Del Mar and Spanish Colonial Revival homes with arched openings. A Tudor front needs its divided lites and wood character kept, while a Spanish Colonial home needs its arches kept round and its deep reveals left intact.
The weather adds a third problem. Del Mar sits between two lagoons with the Pacific to the west, so heavy marine layer clouds keep wood sills damp through much of the year, and a 1960s or 1970s wood frame rots from the bottom rail first. That is why Anne's casements went clad-wood: real wood inside, a cladding outside that shrugs off the fog.
A clad-wood or divided-lite casement in Del Mar is estimated at roughly $800 to $1,200 per window installed, and the lite pattern, the frame material and whether the opening is arched move the price most.
| Del Mar job | Est. investment | Est. duration on site |
|---|---|---|
| Clad-wood or divided-lite casement | Est. $800 to $1,200 per window | Est. 1 to 2 hours each |
| Arched or specialty-shape window | Est. $900 to $1,600 per window | Est. 1 to 3 hours each |
| French door pair | Est. $1,800 to $4,000 per pair | Est. 6 to 8 hours |
| Full-frame tear-out | Est. $800 to $1,500 per window | Est. 3 to 6 hours each |
Most Old Del Mar cottages need the full-frame method on at least the street side, because rotted sills cannot carry a retrofit insert, and that adds stucco or siding repair to the line. A whole-house, two-story Revival home is estimated at $14,000 to $24,000 before specialty shapes. These Del Mar figures are estimates and can change once the old frames are opened; your written quote after the site visit sets the final price and the install schedule.
Owners who want real wood inside choose clad-wood windows, and owners whose windows can still be saved or must be copied exactly start with wood window restoration and replication. Round and pointed openings go to our arched window templating crew.
A Del Mar job starts with photos of every elevation, because the goal is a house that looks unchanged from the street. Our measure tech records each lite pattern and each arch radius, the order goes in with matching grids, and the crew sets the street side first so the house is never half old and half new for long. Custom clad-wood typically takes the longest to build, so we confirm the schedule in writing before the old windows come out.
Our crew leads have set casements in Tudor Revival cottages and arches in Spanish Colonial Revival homes across Del Mar Heights and Old Del Mar, and the same lead stays on your job from photos to final walk-through. Every window carries our 2-year workmanship warranty on every installation, and you can meet the team at your estimate.
From Del Mar our coastal crew covers Solana Beach condos and homes, Rancho Santa Fe estates and Fairbanks Ranch, and the full list of North County communities is on our service areas page.
Del Mar homes often pair new windows with a French door or patio door replacement or, on view lots, ocean-view picture windows.
Yes, we replicate the lite pattern in clad-wood or divided-lite casements, as Anne's six street-side casements show.
An arched or specialty-shape window is estimated at roughly $900 to $1,600 per window, and your written quote sets the final price after we template the arch.
No, we template each arch on site and keep the deep reveals, so the elevation reads the same as before.
The marine layer between the two lagoons keeps sills damp for weeks, so bare wood rots from the bottom rail first.
Most Del Mar jobs like Robert's four arches take roughly 1 to 2 days by our estimate on site once the custom units arrive.
Yes, our coastal crew covers Rancho Santa Fe, Solana Beach and Encinitas from the same weekly schedule.
Request a free estimate, and we will photograph every elevation, measure each opening and send a written, itemized quote.
Your local contact
Names, photos and stories are on our about page.
Location manager covering Del Mar
Runs the Del Mar schedule from the first measure to the city sign-off.
Where we work
Homeowners get a free measure at the house. Boards, managers and contractors can send plans or an opening count for a bid.
Calls only, we do not receive text messages.
