The Big Question: Do Replacement Windows Really Pay For Themselves?
Several reasons to replace your windows include increasing your home’s value, facilitating its sale, improving its aesthetics, and providing less maintenance and easier-to-clean windows. Excepting the increase in the market value of your home, all of these reasons are luxuries. One of the best reasons to replace your windows is not a luxury but a necessity. Installed properly, the right windows can cut your energy bills by at least 25% (this is a conservative estimate and one made assuming only the simplest of glass packages with Low-E and Argon). To keep the math simple, let’s say your monthly energy bills total $100. Saving 25% of that $100, you will save $300 off your annual cost (keeping out inflation to keep it simple mind you). Without inflation in a 10-year period, you can save $3000 on your energy bills in addition to enjoying the luxuriant benefits discussed above. You can either pay your energy company an extra $3000 over 10 years or save that money AND own new windows. Remem
