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High Quality Floor to Ceiling Windows in Toronto

August 31, 2022 By Webmaster

If you’re looking for a way to improve both the interior and exterior appearance of your home or business, high quality floor to ceiling windows are the way to go. These come with a number of benefits, and we want to share those with you.

Get Better Lighting and Save on Electricity

One of the first things you’ll notice after having floor to ceiling windows installed is that you get incredible lighting. Having large windows allows sunshine to poor into your home, so long as you allow it to. Want your home to be illuminated with beautiful, natural daylight? This is how to achieve that.

If you want exceptional lighting from morning til night, install floor to ceiling windows on more than one side of your house. Depending on which direction your home is facing, you could gain daylight illumination by installing floor to ceiling windows on opposite sides of a room, or even adjacent walls.

In addition to the magnificent lighting you’ll obtain, you will also save on electricity. Without the need of so many electric lights in your home, you’ll spend less on electricity each month. You’d be surprised how much electricity is wasted on lights each day. By simply opening your home up to the sun, you can get all of that light for free.

Improve Views from Inside

Right after natural light, floor to ceiling windows also grant you amazing views from inside your home. Whether your home overlooks a beautiful nature scene, a cityscape, or simply your backyard, the view will be magnificent.

Looking out a regular window doesn’t offer much excitement. Even if the view is really nice, it feels contained. There’s no ignoring that you’re inside. However, with large, floor to ceiling windows, your interior becomes one with nature. The border between you and the outdoors nearly melts away into nothing.

Increase Resale Value and Curb Appeal

Whether you’re in the city, the suburbs, or tucked away in nature, adding floor to ceiling windows to your home is going to increase resale value and curb appeal. Why is that?

Well, resale value is boosted for 3 reasons: the lighting, the improved views, and the beauty added to the house itself. Windows just look nice on a house. That’s exactly why the curb appeal is boosted! When you pull up to a house and can see large windows on it, it looks fancy, expensive, and elegant. Just looking the part of an expensive house will make it into an expensive house. Adding these large windows will more than make up for the cost in resale increase.

Get High Quality Floor to Ceiling Windows in Toronto

When shopping around for new windows, floor to ceiling or otherwise, you should always come to us at Aluplex. We’re the #1 glass manufacturer in Toronto. Our high quality windows are made to last. Their quality means crystal clear visibility, damage resistance, and fantastic insulation. Plus, when you become a customer at Aluplex, we also offer repair services, even in emergencies.

Give us a call today if you’re looking for the right windows for your home. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Prepare for Sukkot with Operable Kosher Skylights

August 31, 2022 By Webmaster

Sukkot is just around the corner. For observant Jews, this holiday means going into the great outdoors of your backyard and putting together a shelter for you and your family. However, not everyone has the ability or desire to make something completely from scratch. There are many reasons one might desire something less physically demanding. With some help from Aluplex, you can turn your porch into the shelter you need with our operable, kosher skylights.

Completely Kosher Skylights

Aluplex offers kosher skylights that can be installed over a porch so that it may be used for Sukkot. Our kosher skylights can be opened manually, or with an air compressor. When installed in the roof of a porch, they can be opened for Sukkot and a sukkah appropriate roof can be built in their place. Then, the framework of the porch can be used to support the other parts of the sukkah structure.

Old Age and Disability Friendly

Creating a shelter for Sukkot each year is a very demanding task. For those reaching older age, or those of any age with disabilities, we offer a less demanding solution. Turning a porch into a sukkah lessens the workload required each year, allowing those with limited mobility, or less energy, to partake as well.

By relying on the framework of the porch, building a sukkah can be as simple as opening your kosher skylights, covering the new opening with appropriate, sukkah roofing material, attaching some canvas to the porch supports to create walls, and so on. Taking out the task of building a completely new framework makes crafting a sukkah much more manageable. Plus, once sukkot ends, you can close your skylights once more and have a lovely, sunlit porch.

Reusable Each Year

By installing our kosher skylights in your porch roof, you not only improve your porch permanently, you make it a reusable sukkah base for each following year. Opening and closing the skylights is all it takes to go from a functional part of your home, to a sukkah frame, and back again.

High Quality Windows

Our skylights aren’t just kosher, they’re also high quality. We specialize in glass and windows of all kinds. Our kosher skylights are no exception. You can count on us to deliver high quality skylights with clear visibility and that won’t leak.

They’re also well insulated. Closed-in porches and sunrooms will retain warmth – or cold, depending on the season – and save you money. Electric bills go up astronomically when windows lose their insulation. You can rely on us to provide windows that maintain their insulation for many, many years.

Emergency Repair Services

If disaster strikes in bad weather or an accident, we offer emergency repair services. Rain or shine, you can count on us to come out and service your skylights. We know skylights are the one thing keeping rain out of your home. There’s no time to waste when one breaks or starts leaking. Give us a call and we’ll be there!

How to Clean Up Aging Windows

August 1, 2022 By Webmaster

Old windows don’t look their best. As with all things, time will do a real number on them. If you live in an old house and your windows are looking worse for wear, it’s time to do something about it. Aluplex is here to help. As Toronto’s #1 glass manufacturer, we know just what to do to clean up aging windows.

Wash Them

The first step to getting your windows back up to snuff is washing them. Soap and water will work wonders on an old window, but you may need more. For particularly old windows with a lot of grime on them, using special cleaners is a good idea. Something intended to cut through tough grime will get off layers of years-old sediment.

However, if you also have molding issues, you might want to use vinegar as well. Just be sure you don’t mix cleaners. Things that are completely harmless by themselves can create deadly gasses when combined. So, be sure to wash with plain water between different cleaners if you’re not sure how they interact. Or, go straight for a cleaner with a vinegar base. Vinegar is great at killing off mold and is safe for animals and children to be around.

You may want to use a straight-edge tool like a putty knife to scrape out any grime along the edge of the glass panes.

Patch Cracks

Windows with cracks should always be patched or replaced ASAP, depending on the severity of the damage. Modern windows with dual panes are filled with an insulating gas. This keeps your home’s temperature from fluctuating as much with the weather. Additionally, it prevents noise from traveling as freely from inside or outside of the house. When your window cracks, it makes space for that insulation to escape, hurting the integrity of the window.

Patching window cracks is a bit tedious, but not difficult. You can do so with epoxy and an adhesive film. These are easiest to attain in a glass patching kit, which can be found at most hardware stores.

Mend the Window Frame

Lastly, you’ll want to mend the window frame and sill. You’d be surprised how much of a window’s appearance comes from its surroundings. Get yourself some putty and fill in any cracks in the sill, wiping any excess of so that it’s smooth. Do the same for any cracks in the wall surrounding the window. Any notable gaps between the window case and frame should be tightened up with wooden shims. These can be cut down and then covered with putty to hide them. Finally, use some caulking to trace the perimeter of the window case and close any seam between it and the frame. All of this sealing will both improve the appearance of the window and make it harder for any bugs or air to get past.

Replace Aging Windows

If you’ve got room for window replacements in your budget, replacing aging windows is definitely the best option. Windows that have reached an age where their appearance is suffering are typically not doing so great in other respects either. If you’re in the market for reliable window replacements, come to Aluplex. We offer a wide selection of quality windows that can improve your home’s appearance and function in one go.

Replace Custom Windows in Toronto

August 1, 2022 By Webmaster

Replacing windows is a pain in and of itself. It only becomes more difficult when the windows are custom sized. Many places that sell windows only sell standard sizes. Aluplex is different. Because we manufacture glass instead of just selling windows as a middle man, we can help you with custom window replacements. Let’s check out how we can help you replace custom windows in your Toronto home or business.

Custom Window Creation

What makes Aluplex different than other locations that sell windows is that we’re a window manufacturer. Hardware stores may carry a variety of windows, but they’re only functioning as a middle man for big manufacturers. At Aluplex, on the other hand, we make our own products. Therefore, if you call us to order custom windows, we’ll never be out of stock! Your order just means rolling up our sleeves and getting to work.

Custom Window Installation in Toronto

Our team at Aluplex does more than just manufacture windows; we do it all! From the production to the installation, our team knows windows. Therefore, when you need to replace custom windows in Toronto, you don’t have to order from us and then find another team to put them in. We’ll make the windows, deliver the windows, and install the windows. Plus, we’ll continue to provide care for them even after we’ve put them in and said our goodbyes. Repair services are just a phonecall away.

Custom Skylight Windows

While regular windows are a need in every household, skylight windows are not. Because of that, there are fewer window experts that cover skylight manufacture and installation. There are even fewer that craft them to custom specifications.

If you have an unusual skylight design or location, we’ll work with you to design and craft the right skylight for the space. Replacing oddly-shaped skylights is just as easy. We can copy the dimensions of the existing skylight. Or, if the current design is faulty due to its unusual shape, we can do better and replace it with one that works reliably.

Window Maintenance and Repair

Installing a window is only half the battle. Upkeep is just as important. A window cracking, breaking, or leaking is an emergency for most homes. Especially since most window damage occurs during storms.

If your Aluplex window meets with an untimely break, call us at any time of day and we’ll come out to service your window ASAP.

Order Custom Windows

Don’t have custom windows yet? If your home is a work in progress and ready for some new windows that are outside the standard, Aluplex can help. No matter your custom window needs, we’ve got you covered. Call us today and we can get started!

Broken Window Repair and Replacement

June 30, 2022 By Webmaster

A broken window is an annoying thing to be tasked with dealing with. Unfortunately, if you’re a homeowner and a window breaks, tasked with dealing with it is exactly what you are. Fortunately, you don’t have to deal with it alone. Aluplex is here to help! As Toronto’s leading window and glass manufacturer, we can have you sorted out in no time with our broken window repair and replacement services.

Broken Window Repair

A broken window can spell disaster. It doesn’t matter if you live in a shack or a mansion – a broken window means there’s nothing stopping the outside from coming in. That could be rain, snow, the sweltering heat of summer, or even your neighborhood squirrels.

If your broken window is only cracked, your fortunate. It’s possible it can be repaired. Small enough cracks, if handled quickly, can be repaired before the insulating gas in the window is able to escape. Therefore, calling for repair services quickly is paramount. Using some adhesive stickers and a syringe, we can inject the crack with epoxy, sealing the crack entirely. This can also be done with a kit from the hardware store. However, if you have no experience repairing cracked glass, it can end up a mess. Use caution and patience when attempting to DIY repair window cracks. Messing up can leave your window impossible to fully repair, and ugly to boot.

Broken Window Replacement

If your window is more than cracked, the risk of those aforementioned intruders becomes possible. Completely broken windows cannot be repaired effectively. You may be able to tape up some sheet plastic to temporarily keep out rain and pests. However, any size of hole will allow the insulation in your window to escape. An uninsulated window will lead to horrible temperature regulation in your home. Additionally, any noise outside will suddenly become loud and clear from inside – not to mention the reverse.

If your window has shattered, give us a call at Aluplex and we can come out and replace it for you. As tempting as it may be to put it off, the longer you wait to replaced a shattered window, the more likely something is to go wrong. Someone could get hurt on the shards left in the frame, pests could get in, or you could end up with water damage. It’s best to get it dealt with right away.

Emergency Window Repair and Replacement Services

If you end up with a broken window in the middle of a storm, don’t wait until your living room is flooded with rain water to call. Call right away and we’ll head out to replace it right away. In the meantime, find some tape and plastic to cover the window. It’s best to do this from the outside so that rain blowing against it won’t just run down it and end up inside anyway. Painter’s sheet plastic, tarp, and even plastic wrap can be used in emergencies. If you have none of this, you can always pull down one of your plastic shower curtains and use that while you’re waiting for a new window to be installed.

Replace Old Skylight Windows in Toronto

June 30, 2022 By Webmaster

There are many reasons to replace old skylight windows. No matter your reason, when you’re ready to take the plunge, call us at Aluplex. We offer high quality skylight windows and installation to the whole GTA.

Replace Leaking Skylight Windows

When you’ve had a skylight for many years, it will eventually begin to leak. If you’ve moved into a house that’s had a skylight for years before you lived there, you’re even more likely to be the one it gives out on. If your skylight is fairly old and begins to leak, even in small drips, you’ve got a problem on your hands.

A skylight window leaking doesn’t necessarily mean it’s broken. Because skylights are horizontal and placed on the roof, they have to handle keeping out sitting water for many years. Eventually, the seal will wear out. This can happen from caulking drying out and cracking, the wooden frame warping, or many other causes. Unfortunately, a crack would be easier to repair. When your skylight begins to have frame seal issues, it often needs to be replaced. The glass in it may be fine, but if the frame is having issues, that becomes the weakest link.

Replace Old, Worn Out Skylight Windows

Aside from leaking, skylights can also just begin to wear out. After over a decade of fending off sitting rain water, sitting under decomposing leaves and branches, and weathering the summer sun and winter snow, your skylight will begin to show its age.

When you’ve got an aging, old skylight, sometimes a good, passionate scrub will get it looking clean and new again. However, this isn’t always the case – especially with even older skylights. Sometimes even elbow grease isn’t enough to remove tough, burned-on algae and moss that’s been baking under the sun for years. This is why it’s good to clean your skylight every year or two. If you like to put up Christmas lights or clean your gutters, that’s a good time to maintain them.

Another unfortunate truth: old skylights may not leak, but there may be more issue than just the look of them. If you can see the glass fogging up or moisture gathering between the panes, the outer pane is no longer sealed properly. Water has gotten into it. If that’s true, it’s a matter of time before the leak gets past the second pane as well. Additionally, this means the insulation gas has been able to leak out. Therefore, summer sun coming in through the skylight will impact your home temperature much more than usual. It ends up driving up your electric bill when it’s hot or cold out.

These skylights cannot be properly repaired and will never regain their integrity. They must be replaced with new ones.

Replace Old Skylight Windows

No matter what kind of wear and tear your skylight has sustained from aging, Aluplex is here to help in the replacement process. We can replace old skylight windows quickly and get you back to enjoying your everyday life with one less concern on your plate. Plus, we offer emergency repair services. So, if you ever encounter any problems in the future, we’ll be back in no time to fix your new skylight up again. Give us a call if you have any questions about our windows or services. We look forward to hearing from you.