Carlsbad Quality Windows is San Diego County's leading pros in historic window replacement, specializing in profile-matched clad-wood casements, simulated divided lites with spacer bars, and templated arched replicas. We offer putty-profile glazing beads and slim fiberglass sash for period elevations.
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Our team provides on-site profile drawings of every original window, delivering new units that keep a home's face for homes and matched sightlines along a street front for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by 13 years in business and our 2-year workmanship warranty, we've completed over 1,730 projects, from two front casements on a bungalow to every opening on a Revival estate.
From the width of a meeting rail to the depth of a muntin shadow, our team handles every detail. Serving Carlsbad and neighboring Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar and Encinitas, we draw each original window before ordering so the new one reads the same from the curb.
Why Carlsbad Quality Windows
Catherine, The Covenant, Rancho Santa Fe
Covenant estate with original steel casements that no longer latched
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Catherine's Lilian Rice-era estate in The Covenant, Rancho Santa Fe, had original steel casements that no longer latched. We matched 7 thermally broken steel-look casements to the slim original sightlines and showed the plans to the Art Jury before ordering. The work was an estimated $6,300 to $8,200 project, finished in an estimated 1 to 2 days on site. The thin lines of the old Rancho Santa Fe windows stayed, and every one of the seven casements now latches and seals.
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Frame material
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Set the picker to casement or double-hung, then switch between wood and fiberglass to compare estimated price, lifespan and warranty. Wood is estimated at $600 to $2,000 per window and fiberglass at $400 to $1,500 per window, the two frames we use most on Tudor Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival homes.
Narrow frame that holds up to salt air
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.
Replace an original window when its frame has rotted through, its sash no longer holds glass safely, or the cost of rebuilding it passes the cost of a matched replica. Sash with shallow rot and sound joints should be repaired instead, and that work belongs to our wood window restoration service, which keeps the original wood and glass.
Most older homes we survey in Old Del Mar and Carlsbad Village end up with a mix: the protected street face restored, the side and rear windows replaced with matched units.
A good historic replacement matches four things the eye reads from the street: the width of the frame and sash, the height of the meeting rail, the pattern and depth of the muntins, and the glazing profile. We record each one on site, whether the house is a Del Mar Heights ranch or a Rancho Santa Fe Village cottage, and order to the drawing.
Simulated divided lites carry bars on both faces of the glass with a spacer bar between the panes, so the grid casts a shadow like real muntins. A putty-profile glazing bead copies the angled line of hand-set putty on an Old Encinitas cottage. Grids sandwiched between the panes with nothing outside read flat, which is why we do not use them on a period front in Olivenhain or Old Del Mar.
Clad-wood is our usual choice for a historic replacement, because it keeps wood inside and puts a low-care skin outside, while fiberglass suits a narrow profile near salt air and real wood suits a front a review body wants in wood.
| Frame | Est. price per window | Est. time per window | Profile match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clad-wood with simulated divided lites | Est. $800 to $1,200 | Est. 1 to 2 hours | Close match to wood casements and double-hungs |
| Fiberglass casement, painted | Est. $650 to $1,200 | Est. 1 to 2 hours | Slim sightlines for coastal Leucadia cottages |
| Arched or specialty replica | Est. $900 to $1,600 | Est. 1 to 3 hours | Templated to Spanish Colonial Revival arches |
| Full-frame wood replacement | Est. $800 to $1,500 | Est. 3 to 6 hours | Full match where the frame is gone |
Our clad-wood window page covers cladding colors and wood species, and arched heads on Revival homes go to arched and specialty windows.
Historic window replacement in Carlsbad is typically estimated at $800 to $1,200 per window for a clad-wood casement with simulated divided lites, with the muntin pattern, the number of lites and whether the frame survives moving the price most. Arched replicas run an estimated $900 to $1,600 per window, and a full-frame tear-out is estimated at $800 to $1,500.
A Covenant estate like Catherine's, with 7 casements, came in at an estimated $6,300 to $8,200, while a plain Calavera Hills or Carlsbad Village bungalow with simple double-hungs usually lands lower.
These are estimates for older North County homes and are subject to change once the old frames come out, and your written quote sets the final price and the install schedule.
Design review is the first risk: where a home sits under the Rancho Santa Fe Association's Art Jury or on a city historic list, the replacement plan should be shown before anything is ordered, and we prepare the drawings for that review where it applies.
Lead is the second risk, because most homes in Old Poway, Cardiff-by-the-Sea and other older streets painted before 1978 carry lead paint on the old frames, and tearing them out without containment spreads dust, so our crews work lead-safe on every opening. A replica must also meet code: tempered glass under CBC R308 and the R310 egress opening in a bedroom, and Title 24 applies to every replacement, so we pull the permit and book the inspection.
Owners trust our crew because we tell them which windows to keep before we sell any replacements, and the installer who draws each window is the one who sets it. Every job carries our 2-year workmanship warranty on every installation, plus the maker's warranty, typically 20 years on the glass. Meet our crew on the team page before your measure, 13 years after our first North County job.
We replace windows on older homes across a 30-mile radius of Carlsbad, from Covenant estates in Rancho Santa Fe to Old Del Mar cottages and Leucadia and Cardiff-by-the-Sea homes. Fairbanks Ranch, Solana Beach, Poway and Bonsall are on our service area list.
Original sash that can still be saved is rebuilt through restoration of original wood sash, and slim original steel casements can be matched with steel windows. Owners in Fairbanks Ranch replacing every window at once can plan a whole-house replacement project.
Most profile-matched clad-wood casements are estimated at $800 to $1,200 per window, and your written quote sets the final price after the measure.
Repair when the rot is shallow and the joints are sound, as on many Old Encinitas cottages, and replace when the frame has rotted through or rebuilding costs more than a matched replica.
Yes, we match frame width, meeting rail height, muntin pattern and glazing profile, as on Catherine's estate in The Covenant.
Sometimes, where The Covenant's Art Jury, an HOA in La Costa or a city historic list applies, and we prepare drawings for that review before ordering.
Most profile-matched windows take an estimated 1 to 2 hours each on site, after an estimated 4 to 12 weeks for replicas to be built.
Yes, we template each arch on site and order a replica cut to it, common in Del Mar Heights and Rancho Santa Fe Village.
Request a free estimate anywhere in our 30-mile radius, and we will draw every original window 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.
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