Carlsbad Quality Windows is Southern California's top-rated specialist in estate window replacement, specializing in steel-look casements, clad-wood double-hungs, and divided-lite French doors. We offer large fixed picture glass and arched specialty windows.
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Our team provides elevation drawings for design review, delivering slim, period-true sightlines for homes and one consistent spec 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 a single guest-house casement to whole two-story estates.
From the sightline of a steel casement to the stain on a clad-wood interior, our team handles every detail. Serving Rancho Santa Fe and neighboring Fairbanks Ranch, Del Mar and Solana Beach, our estate location manager plans each job around the house, the grounds and the review calendar.
Catherine, The Covenant, Rancho Santa Fe
Covenant estate with original steel casements that no longer latched
James, Rancho Santa Fe Village, Rancho Santa Fe
Estate with painted wood double-hungs swollen shut on the south side
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Why Carlsbad Quality Windows
Catherine's estate inside The Covenant had original steel casements that no longer latched, so we set seven thermally broken steel-look casements matched to the slim original sightlines, an estimated $6,300 to $8,200 project set in roughly 1 to 2 days by our estimate after the plans were shown for review.
James near Rancho Santa Fe Village had painted wood double-hungs swollen shut on the south side of his two-story estate, so we replaced 14 windows with clad-wood double-hungs, stained wood inside, an estimated $10,500 to $13,600 job over an estimated 2 to 3 days.
Rancho Santa Fe windows are reviewed before they are replaced, because the community was master-planned from 1921 by architect Lilian Rice in the Spanish Colonial Revival style and The Covenant is California Historical Landmark #982. A frame that looks right on a Carlsbad tract home can look wrong here: wide vinyl frames, bright white sashes and flat grids break the character of a Lilian Rice-era elevation.
The climate is different from the coast too. Rancho Santa Fe sits higher and further inland, with larger temperature swings than Del Mar, so south and west walls take real afternoon heat. That is why James's south side went clad-wood with Low-E 366 glass and why a steel-look casement here gets a thermal break.
A clad-wood or divided-lite casement in Rancho Santa Fe is estimated at roughly $800 to $1,200 per window installed, and the frame material, the size of each estate opening and the number of specialty shapes move the price most.
| Rancho Santa Fe 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 |
| Fiberglass casement | Est. $650 to $1,200 per window | Est. 1 to 2 hours each |
| Picture or ocean-view window | Est. $700 to $1,600 per window | Est. 1 to 3 hours each |
| Whole-house, two-story | Est. $14,000 to $24,000 per home | Est. 3 to 5 days |
Estate homes often carry more openings than the 15 to 30 window band, so a full replacement is quoted window by window rather than as a package. These Rancho Santa Fe prices are estimates and remain subject to change after review; the written quote sets the final price and the schedule, including time for the plans to be approved.
Owners who want the look of the original steel go steel and steel-look windows, owners who want stained wood inside choose clad-wood windows, and estates with round-top openings use our arched and specialty window templating.
Large estate rooms also change the glass choice. A tall great-room opening that faces the grounds usually becomes a picture or ocean-view window, estimated at $700 to $1,600 per window, because fixed glass gives the widest daylight opening and the slimmest frame. Bedrooms keep operable casements so each one still meets the emergency egress opening the code requires, and every pane near a door or a tub is tempered under CBC R308. Where an older wood frame has rotted into the stucco, the full-frame tear-out is estimated at $800 to $1,500 per window, with a new flashed sill pan under each unit.
A Rancho Santa Fe job starts with drawings, not demolition. We photograph every elevation, mark the frame color, grid pattern and sightline for each opening, and prepare the plan set the owner submits for review. Only once it is approved do we place the order, and the crew sets the windows one elevation at a time so the house is never left open overnight.
Our estate location manager runs the Rancho Santa Fe schedule personally, and the same crew lead who measures the estate sets every unit. Every window carries our 2-year workmanship warranty on every installation, on top of the manufacturer's own warranty, and you can meet the team before the first site visit.
Our estate crew also covers window replacement in Fairbanks Ranch, Elfin Forest homes and Del Mar Revival houses, and every North County community we serve is on our service areas page.
Estates often add a floor-to-ceiling glass wall facing the grounds or a folding or multi-slide door wall onto the loggia.
Exterior changes inside The Covenant are typically reviewed, so we prepare the window plans for you to submit before anything is ordered.
Yes, thermally broken steel-look casements keep the slim sightlines, as Catherine's seven casements did.
A clad-wood casement is estimated at roughly $800 to $1,200 per window, and the written quote sets the final price after review.
A 14-window, two-story estate like James's typically takes an estimated 2 to 3 days on site once the windows arrive.
Yes, south and west walls get Low-E 366 glass with an SHGC of 0.23 or lower.
Yes, our estate location manager covers Fairbanks Ranch, Elfin Forest and Harmony Grove along with Rancho Santa Fe.
Request a free estimate, and we will photograph the estate, measure each opening and prepare a written, itemized quote with the plans.
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Names, photos and stories are on our about page.
Location manager covering Rancho Santa Fe
Runs the Rancho Santa Fe 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.
