Carlsbad Quality Windows is Southern California's premier specialist in wood window restoration, specializing in sticking double-hung sash, rotted casement rails, and divided-lite patterns copied for replica sash. We offer re-roped sash weights and fresh glazing putty on hand-set panes.
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Our team provides wood consolidation and dutchman patches, delivering old windows that open, close and lock again for both residential and commercial projects. Our 13 years in business, the 2-year workmanship warranty on every installation and more than 1,730 completed projects stand behind every call we make, from a single sticking sash to a whole front elevation copied in clad-wood.
From a swollen parting stop to a replica sash built for a frame we cannot save, our team handles every detail. Serving Carlsbad and neighboring Del Mar, Rancho Santa Fe and Encinitas, we keep lead-safe practices in place on every painted window built before 1978.
Why Carlsbad Quality Windows
Anne, Old Del Mar, Del Mar
Old Del Mar Tudor Revival cottage with rotted wood casements on the street side
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Anne owns a Tudor Revival cottage in Old Del Mar, and the wood casements on her street side had rotted through at the sills and bottom rails. The probe showed the frames were past consolidation, so we recommended clad-wood casements with simulated divided lites that copy the original muntin pattern. Replacing the 6 front-elevation windows was an estimated $4,800 to $6,600 job finished in 1 to 2 days on site by our estimate, backed by our 2-year workmanship warranty on every installation. From the sidewalk the cottage reads exactly as it did, and the rot is gone.
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Window style
Frame material
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Set a style and a frame in the picker and it shows our estimated per-window price next to each material's life span and warranty. Wood is the material for cottages and Revival homes, with a lifespan of 30 to 60 years or more when it is kept painted, and clad-wood keeps that wood inside while the outside needs far less care.
Wood inside, cladding outside, simulated divided lites where the house calls for them
Templated arch, half-round or custom shape
Down to the studs, new flashing and sill pan, stucco patched
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Rot depth sets the price of wood window restoration in Carlsbad, which is why we price it after the probe, and a clad-wood replica of a failed sash is estimated at roughly $800 to $1,200 per window. Sash in Cardiff-by-the-Sea or Leucadia that only needs cords, putty and paint costs less than a replica, while a sash rebuilt from spliced and consolidated wood can approach it.
A street-side elevation like Anne's six casements typically lands at an estimated $4,800 to $6,600, and the muntin pattern, the number of lites and how much of each frame survives move the price most.
Arched heads, curved sills and real wood inside push a job toward the top, which is common in Rancho Santa Fe Village and along the older streets of Old Encinitas. A 1950s Carlsbad Village bungalow with plain double-hungs usually lands near the low end.
The figures on this page are estimates for older North County homes and are subject to change once the paint is off and we see the wood. Once the probe is done, the written quote fixes the final price and the work schedule.
Restoring keeps the original glass and wood, replicating keeps the look with new material, and a full replacement suits a frame that has rotted along with its sash. The table compares the three calls we make most often.
| Option | When it fits | Est. price | Est. time per opening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restore the original sash | Shallow rot, sound joints, a review body that wants the real wood | Quoted per window after the probe | Set after the probe |
| Replicate in clad-wood with divided lites | Rot through the rails, a pattern worth keeping | Est. $800 to $1,200 per window | Est. 1 to 2 hours each |
| Full-frame replacement in wood | Frame and sill rotted along with the sash | Est. $800 to $1,500 per window | Est. 3 to 6 hours each |
| Arched or specialty replica | Warped arch heads on Revival homes | Est. $900 to $1,600 per window | Est. 1 to 3 hours each |
Rancho Santa Fe's Art Jury signs off on exterior changes under The Covenant, so a replica there must copy the original closely enough to win approval.
Old sash is not a DIY job mainly because of lead: most windows painted before 1978 carry lead paint, and sanding or heat-stripping them at home spreads dust through the house. Our crews contain, mist and clean each opening under lead-safe work practices before any paint comes off.
The second risk is rot you cannot see. Water is what rots a wood window, and the marine layer keeps west-facing sills on Old Encinitas and Del Mar Heights homes damp for long stretches, so decay starts at the sill, the bottom rail and the muntin joints. A homeowner who paints over soft wood traps the water in, while our probe finds it and decides whether epoxy, a splice or a replica is the right fix. A replica that changes the opening also needs a Title 24 permit, which our crew lead pulls.
When a frame is past saving, most owners choose clad-wood windows with a wood interior, while arched Revival openings move to arched and specialty windows and slim original steel casements go to steel windows.
We tell you which windows can be saved before we sell you any replacements, and the same installer who probes the wood writes the restore-or-replicate call into your quote. Every job carries our 2-year workmanship warranty, and replica sash adds the maker's own warranty. Meet the team that runs these projects.
We restore and replicate wood windows across a 30-mile radius of Carlsbad, from Carlsbad Village cottages to Old Del Mar homes, Rancho Santa Fe Covenant estates and older Encinitas houses. Solana Beach, Fairbanks Ranch and Poway are on our service area list.
Owners who replicate the front windows often add bay and bow windows to a sitting room, or replace the back of the house with patio door replacement in a matching wood finish. When an original sash is past saving, profile-matched historic window replacement keeps the old sightlines while a new unit goes in.
Often yes, when the probe finds shallow rot and sound joints, and we say so window by window in a written scope.
Replication wins when rot runs through the rails and joints, as it did on Anne's Old Del Mar casements.
A clad-wood or divided-lite casement is typically estimated at $800 to $1,200 per window, with the exact figure set in writing after the probe.
Yes on most homes in Eden Gardens and Olivenhain painted before 1978, which is why our crews follow lead-safe practices on every opening.
A replica has to match the original look closely, so we record the sightlines and muntin pattern and prepare the plans for review.
A front elevation typically needs 1 to 2 days on site, once the sash is built to the recorded pattern.
Both, and most Tudor Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival homes from Fairbanks Ranch to Solana Beach get simulated divided lites that read as true lites from the street.
Book a free assessment, and we will probe every sash, record each muntin pattern and send a written, itemized quote.
The process
We check every frame, sill and the stucco around it, then laser-measure each opening for the unit that goes in it.
Frame material, glass package, label values and install method arrive in writing before anything is ordered.
Each window is set on a sloped sill pan, flashed and sealed, with the NFRC sticker left on for the inspector.
We open and lock every window and door with you, and the city signs off the Title 24 permit.
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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.
