Historic News: BRIGHTWAY REMODELERS INC. has been recognized as one of Window & Door magazine's Dealers of the Year!
Window & Door magazine is the information source for the fenestration industry, serving over 20,000 manufacturers, distributors, and dealers of windows, doors and other products."Our Dealers of the Year serve as outstanding examples of companies that are committed to customers, community and the health and strength of the window and door business... following extensive interviews with countless numbers of suppliers, customers and others. Brightway Remodelers was chosen for its fresh ideas, as well as its outstanding reputation overall"
Nicole Harris - Vice President and Publisher.
See the November 2004 issue article here: Dealer of the Year-Inovative Thinking.
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Brightway Remodelers Inc.
"The Environmentally Friendly Company"
Chicago's friendliest contractor, dealers and installers of energy efficient replacement windows
and doors. Save on heating and cooling cost by replacing your windows with ENERGY STAR® labeled products. Brightway Remodelers is proud be named a "Forest Guardian" by American Forests®
the nation's oldest nonprofit citizens conservation organization, founded in 1875.
Save energy and help the environment for generations to come.
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Brightway Remodelers Inc. "The Leaders in Customer Satisfaction".
Specializing in thermal windows and doors for homeowners,
we do not try to be all things to all people.
Founded on customer friendly ideals our goal is to make your home improvement project a pleasant experience.
You can count on courteous employees, our 24 hour "Rapid Response Program",
plus factory trained technicians and all the energy saving and comfort features found standard on our line of windows and doors.
"The Friendly Company" offers an integrated solution with a single point of contact for all your window and door needs.
At Brightway Remodelers we'll make it simple and easy for you.
There are certain features that you'll find in a good window. At Brightway Remodelers we make these features standard:
7/8 Inch Hermetically Sealed Glass.
This is double pane glass, benefits to you: no storm windows to put up and take down.
Fusion Welded Sash and Main Frame Construction.
How this benefits you: Long lasting, no screws or bolts that come loose with age.
Low-E (low emissivity) Glass
Benefits:Low-E keeps radiant heat out of your house in the summer and reflects indoor heat back inside the room in the winter. Saves on Heating and Cooling cost.
Argon Gas FillingBenefits: Adds even more insulation value, Argon gas being heavier than air aids in sound proofing.Tilt In Sashes (on double hung windows)Benefits: Easy cleaning from inside the house.
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Brightway Remodelers receives the "Award of Excellence".
See pictures of the Celebration on our Brightway Cam.
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he gave the gift of Brightway windows to his mother next door. It's turning into a Brightway neighborhood!
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Other Brightway Remodelers' Products and Services Include:
Doors: | Steel Security Doors & Ornamental Security Doors, Storm Doors & Glass Patio Doors and more... |
Iron Work: | Wrought Iron Window Guards (security bars) - Fences & Gates |
And More! | Canopies & Awnings |
Superior Factory Installation | |
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Brightway Remodelers has locations in Oak Park and coming soon Aurora Illinois, email at info@WindowsChicago.com
See the Alside products showroom at 1060B W. Division St. Chicago IL just East of the Kennedy Expressway
Dreamspace, Dreamwood & DreamGlas are registered trademarks of Thermal Industries, Inc.
All DreamGlas Gallery Designs are the copyrighted artwork of Thermal Industries, Inc.
Intercept® is a registered trademark of PPG Industries.
Alside is a registered mark and ClimaTech is a trademark of Alside.
ENERGY STAR® is a U.S. registered mark.
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At Brightway Remodelers our ENERGY STAR® qualified windows from Alside Window Systems include the ClimaTech™ Insulated Glass Package with PPG Intercept® "Warm-Edge" spacers, Low-E Glass and Argon gas as a Standard Feature. How this benefits you is that for no additional cost we give you what other companies would consider an upgrade or extra charge option. |
Brightway Remodelers accepts VISA, MasterCard, American Express and Discover
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 The brass caming on this DreamWood window is between the panes of glass, so it never needs polishing. | At Brightway Remodelers our wide range of styles includes Double Hung, Casement, Picture Windows, Glass Block and Patio Doors plus
Our Dreamspace® Collection of Bays, Bows, and Garden Windows. You can configure these windows with a choice of options including Full-Vinyl (the most common type of insulated replacement window, vinyl on both the inside and outside of the house), or you can choose Dream®Wood an energy efficient combination of vinyl on the outside with real Ponderosa pine inside (ready to stain or paint to match your home's interior). Another economical choice for the wood look is our Natural WoodGrain window - vinyl outside and simulated wood grain laminate inside inside your home (available in pine or oak grain). Whatever window you choose you can count on superior factory installation, at Brightway Remodelers the job is not done until it is done right. |
Nature and Technology Combine... |
 This Dreamspace Garden Window was made with the economical Full-Vinyl option. | Our DreamWood and Natural WoodGrain windows have all the energy saving advantages of vinyl windows - 13/16" PPG Intercept® warm edge glass - Low-E and Argon Gas - fusion welded frames... with the beauty of wood on on the inside sashes, sills and stops. In areas of your home where you don't want the wood look go with our Full-Vinyl windows - Mix and match according to your needs... and your budget!
Call or email to have one of our friendly consultants guide you through these choices and even more extremely popular options such as... |
| The DreamGlas® Gallery Collection. DreamGlas is an exciting technology in glass manufacturing from Thermal Industries, Inc.. Precision machines, utilizing a combination of grinding and polishing wheels, precisely cut designs into the surface of the glass with techniques we call Jewel Cut and Frostline Cut. Additional techniques require trained artisans to hand apply caming and color to produce a variety of designs creating a stained-glass look. |  |
Friendly Company, Friendly Bears.
Brightway Remodelers Inc. is a company founded on customer friendly ideals. We are the only company in the market that guarantees its windows to be bear proof. No Grizzley Bears, Black Bears, Polar Bears or Brown Bears shall enter your home through any Brightway window!
At Brightway Remodelers we feel that keeping bears out of your home is just as important as keeping fabric damaging ultraviolet rays and radiant heat out of your home. That is why Brightway windows feature Low-E (low emmisivity) glass and Argon gas as standard features on all our windows (to protect you from the suns rays, not bears). We keep bears out of your home through diplomatic means, we promise bears that we won't invade their territory and they stay out of ours!
Crazy Promises?!?!?!
You may hear a lot of Crazy promises while shopping for replacement windows or other home improvements. Our Bear Proof window guarantee may sound crazy but it's a promise we know we can keep, And that's the only kind of promise we will make (Promises that we will keep, not Crazy ones)! We know you may not be very concerned about bears entering your home through your windows, but you do care that your replacement windows are built with quality workmanship, materials and design. With installation by factory trained professionals to give the most in energy efficiency, beauty and comfort, at Brightway Remodelers we can promise you a commitment that the job is not done until it's done right!
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Kids! Don't be afraid of the bears, here's a really friendly bear to visit
(ask an adult's permission first) Smokey the Bear.
Bears like salmon, watch a funny movie of bears fishing,
(ask an adult's permission first) here's the story about it
Anchorage Daily News story.
At Brightway Remodelers we also like aardvarks, our favorite aardvark is Arthur.
He has a theme song that is our theme song too.
Visit Arthur's Music Box to hear it, (ask an adult's permission first).
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| ARGON: | An inert gas which Insulating glass units are filled with to limit the radiate and conductive loss of long-wave room-side heat energy passing through the window. Argon gas filling also helps in soundproofing. |
| AWNING WINDOW: | Similar to a casement except the sash is hinged at the top and always projects out. |
| BAY WINDOW: | An arrangement of three or more individual window units, attached in such a way as to project from the building at various angles. In a three unit bay, the center section is normally fixed with the end panels operable as single hung or casements. |
| BOW WINDOW: | A bow window can be arranged with three or more equal width units. They can be fixed or operable or mixed in any combination. They are usually mulled together with a small angle such as 13 degrees. |
| CASEMENT: | A single unit of glass, generally longer vertically than horizontally, that can either be opened to the outside (most common) or inside. |
| DOUBLE GLAZING: | In general, any use of two thicknesses of glass, separated by an air space, within an opening, to improve insulation against heat transfer and/or sound transmission. In factory-made double glazing units the air between the glass sheets is thoroughly dried and the space is sealed airtight, eliminating possible condensation and providing superior insulating properties. |
| DOUBLE-HUNG: | A window consisting of two sashes of glass operating in a rectangular frame, both the upper and lower halves can be slid up and down and usually use a counter balance mechanism to hold the sash in place. |
| ENERGY STAR: | The Energy Star label was created by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to help consumers quickly and easily identify windows, doors, and skylights, as well as appliances, office equipment and other products that save energy. |
| FASCIA: | Exterior perimeter of the roof just below the roof-line, perpendicular to the overhang. Often covered with aluminum for a maintenance-free exterior. |
| FIXED WINDOW: | 1. A window which is stationary, also known as a picture window. 2. The part of a sliding window or door which is non-moveable, also known as inactive. |
| FLOAT GLASS: | Glass which has its bottom surfaces formed by floating on molten metal, the top surface being gravity formed, producing a high optical quality of glass with parallel surfaces and, without polishing and grinding, the fire-finished brilliance of the finest sheet glass. Float is replacing plate glass. |
| HOPPER: | Similar to casement window except the sash is hinged at the bottom. |
| HORIZONTAL SLIDER: | A window where the moveable panel slides horizontally. |
| INSULATING GLASS: | Insulating glass refers to two pieces of glass spaced apart and hermetically sealed to form a single-glazed unit with an air space between. Heat transmission through this type of glass may be as low as half that without such an air space. It is also called Double Glazing. |
| JALOUSIE: | The jalousie window is made up of horizontally mounted louvered glass that abut each other tightly when closed and extended outward when cranked open. |
| LITE: | Another term for a pane of glass used in a window. Frequently spelled "light" in the industry, but spelled "lite" in this text to avoid confusion with light as in "visible light". |
| LOW-E: | Low emissivity, Low-E glass products are coated with microscopically-thin, optically transparent layers of silver sandwiched between layers of anti-reflective metal oxide coatings. In the summer Low-E glass products let in visible sunlight while blocking infrared and ultraviolet solar energy that drives up cooling costs and damages curtains, window treatments, carpeting and furnishings. In the winter, Low-E glass products offer greater comfort and reduced heating costs by reflecting room-side heat back into the room. |
| MULLION: | An intermediate connecting member used to "marry" two or more windows or patio doors together in a single rough opening without sacrificing air or watertight performance. A mullion also can give added strength to the connection for structural stability. |
| MUNTINS: | A decorative design in cut-ups of glass lites, such as painted muntin grids (enamelite) applied to an interior lite of glass in a sealed insulated glass unit to simulate cut-ups of glass lites either in colonial or diamond patterns, or use of aluminum muntin bar between lites of glass in a sealed insulated glass unit to simulate glass cut-ups, or use of actual vertical and horizontal bars to divide windows into smaller lites of glass. The bars are termed muntin bars. |
| PICTURE WINDOW: | The picture window is stationary and framed so that it is usually, but not always, longer horizontally than vertically to provide a panoramic view. |
| PLATE GLASS: | Polished plate glass is a rolled, ground and polished product with true flat parallel plane surfaces affording excellent vision. It has less surface polish than sheet glass and is available in thickness varying from 1/4" to 1-1/4". Now replaced by float glass. |
| SASH: | The portion of a window which incudes the glass and the framing sections which are directly attached to the glass. Not to be confused with the master frame into which the sash sections are fitted. |
| SINGLE HUNG: | Similar in appearance to the double-hung window, the single-hung window features a stationary top and a movable bottom half. |
| SLIDER: | A slider window may have one or two movable panes of glass. Whatever the type, the windows slide horizontally in the frame. |
| SPACER SHIMS: | Devices that are U-shaped in cross-sections and an inch or more in length, placed on the edges of lites or panels to serve both as shims to keep the lites or panels centered in the sash or frames, and as spacers to keep the lites or panels centered in the channels and maintain uniform width of sealant beads. Usually made of rubber. |
| SPACERS: | Small blocks of composition, wood, rubber, etc., placed on each side of lites or panels to center them in the channel and maintain uniform width of sealant beads. Use of spacers prevents distorting the sealant excessively. |
| STILE: | The upright vertical edges of a door, window or screen. |
| STOP: | Either the stationary lip at the back of a rabbet, or the removable molding at the front of the rabbet, either or both serving to hold lite or panel in the sash or frame with the help of spacers. Also the part of a door frame against which the door closes. |
| STORMS: | A second set of windows installed on the outside or inside of the prime windows to provide additional insulation. |
| TEMPERED GLASS: | As with heat-strengthened glass, it is re-heated to just below the melting point, but suddenly cooled. When shattered it breaks into small pieces. It is approximately five times stronger than standard annealed glass. It must be used as safety glazing in patio doors, entrance doors, side lites, and other hazardous locations. It can't be re-cut after tempering. |
| THERMAL BREAK: | An element of low conductivity placed between elements of higher conductivity in an effort to reduce the flow of heat and cold, i.e., insulation. |
| TILT WINDOW: | A single or double hung window whose operable sash can be tilted into the room for interior washability. |
| TINTED GLASS: | A mineral admixture is incorporated in the glass, resulting an a degree of tinting. Any tinting reduces both visual and radiant transmittance. |
| UNIT: | Term normally used to refer to one single lite of insulating glass. |
| UNITED INCHES: | The addition of the dimensions of one length and one width of a lite of glass. Example: A window that is 24" wide and 72" high is 96 U.I. |
| U-VALUE: | The measurement used in determining the ability of different structural components (such as windows) to conduct heat. The U-value of a window is measured by the number of BTU's that will pass through each square foot of area per degree of temperature difference from one side of the window to the other. U-values can tell you how well your windows will hold in your heated or cooled air. The lower the number, the better. |
| VINYL: | Polyvinyl chloride material that can be both rigid or flexible, used in glazing channels and weathering of both windows and doors. Back to Top of Page.Back to Middle of Page. |