West Jordan Window Replacement provides professional sliding windows in West Jordan, UT for residential and commercial properties across southwest Salt Lake County. Horizontal sliders are the cheapest honest window you can buy, and in a lot of West Jordan basements they are exactly the right purchase. This page exists mostly to explain when you should buy one and stop spending, which is more often than the industry likes to admit.
Start with the rule that decides it. Escape openings are required in basements and in every room used for sleeping. A basement storage room, a mechanical room, a cold storage cupboard under the front steps or a family room that is not a bedroom does not carry a bedroom's requirement on its own window. Nothing turns a storage room into a sleeping room because it sits below grade.
So if you are replacing the two failed hoppers in a laundry room, you do not need a five square foot clear opening, you do not need a nine square foot well, and you certainly do not need somebody's concrete saw. A two-lite vinyl slider in the existing hole, properly sealed, is the correct and final answer. Nobody needs a concrete saw to sort out a laundry room.
We say this out loud because the opposite pitch is common. It is easy to sell every basement window as an escape upgrade, and it is very profitable. Ask any contractor which rooms in your basement are sleeping rooms and which are not, and see whether the answer changes the quote. It should. That distinction is free to ask about and expensive to skip.
Where sliders do fall down is in a room that is a bedroom. A two-lite slider gives you one moveable panel over a fixed one, so half the width disappears the moment you measure clear opening. A three-lite slider is worse, because the moving panels are narrower still. In those rooms we move you to a casement. Do not let anybody sell you short and tell you it will be fine.
Mechanically they are simple and that is a virtue. Rollers, a track and a latch. When an old slider gets stiff the cause is usually grit packed into the track rather than a worn roller, and fifteen minutes with a vacuum, a stiff brush and a dry lubricant brings it back. We will show you rather than charge you for it.
When we do replace them, we specify tandem rollers on anything wide, a weep path that actually drains to the outside, and a full-height interlock at the meeting stile rather than a token fin. The last of those is what keeps a slider from whistling when the wind comes across open ground. Old aluminum sliders often have a felt pile that has packed flat as well, and a fresh strip of pile costs a few dollars a window.
Screens on a slider cover only the operable half, which is worth knowing before you order. If ventilation is the whole point of the window, a slider of that size hands you less free area than a casement does, and that is a fair reason to spend a little more.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — net clear opening measured clear of the sash, crank-operated casement with a folding handle, low expansion perimeter foam at the shim points, warm-edge insulating spacer with argon fill, heat-welded vinyl corner joints, pultruded fiberglass frame profile — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve West Jordan and nearby communities including West Valley City, Taylorsville, South Jordan, Riverton.
What We Handle
Everything our sliding windows in West Jordan covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of sliding windows work in West Jordan, UT. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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- two lite slider windows
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- sliding window screens
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- non egress basement windows
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- wide opening slider windows
- sliding window locks
- slider window replacement glass
- horizontal sliding basement window
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our West Jordan services.
Materials, equipment and how we do sliding windows
The difference between sliding windows that lasts and sliding windows that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with net clear opening measured clear of the sash, crank-operated casement with a folding handle, low expansion perimeter foam at the shim points, warm-edge insulating spacer with argon fill, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every West Jordan job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of window work in southwest Salt Lake County means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do sliding windows outside West Jordan
West Jordan Window Replacement covers West Jordan and the surrounding communities of southwest Salt Lake County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Sliding Windows in West Valley City, UT — Salt Lake County, population 140,230
- Sliding Windows in Taylorsville, UT — Salt Lake County, population 60,448
- Sliding Windows in South Jordan, UT — Salt Lake County, population 77,487
- Sliding Windows in Riverton, UT — Salt Lake County, population 45,285
- Sliding Windows in Herriman, UT — Salt Lake County, population 55,144
- Sliding Windows in Bluffdale, UT — Salt Lake County, population 17,014
Start on the West Jordan Window Replacement homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why West Jordan Chooses West Jordan Window Replacement
- ✓We measure net clear opening before we price a single unit. The number that matters in a sleeping room is what stays open after the sash swings, and it is never the number printed on the box.
- ✓Concrete cutting, lintels and well work are separate lines on our estimates. Nobody should discover that a foundation cut was folded into a per-window price after the saw is already running.
- ✓We price glass-only repair against full replacement on the same page. A fogged sealed unit in a sound frame is a glass job, and pretending otherwise is how people end up buying eleven windows to fix two.
- ✓Operating style is chosen by geometry first and taste second. Casement, slider, awning and double hung give four different clear openings out of one identical hole, and we show you all four before you choose.
The standards behind sliding windows
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The sliding windows work we do in West Jordan follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every sliding windows project in West Jordan gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free sliding windows free estimate in West Jordan, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.