by STEVEN JAGORD Clarence Editor - Amherst Bee, Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Window replacement can sometimes seem like a daunting, complicated process for homeowners who need to explore their options.
The amount of selection out there is vast, and the costs are varied, giving shoppers a good amount of choice. But it’s hard to envision what the end product will look like when staring at independently suspended windows in a warehouse-style home repair store.
Bob Flaglor and his crew of skilled carpenters have solved that for customers with their new showroom for Window & Door Solutions located at 7767 Transit Road.
“I think it’s the only one of its kind I have ever seen where the building is part of the showroom,” Flaglor said. “It’s really easy for customers here to see what it’s going to look like when it’s finished.”
Flaglor and his team have spent the last 12 months gutting and renovating an old Transit Road farmhouse into a destination for homeowners to experience the look, feel, and sound of what they can produce for you.
Last month the location opened to the public.
There, customers will be able to envision what Window & Door Solutions creates inside homes throughout the region while surrounded by examples of bookshelves, fireplace mantles and professional trim carpentry — homes such as Williamsville resident Dan Mulhern’s.
Mulhern and his wife had shopped around casually knowing that there were rotting wood issues affecting the windows on the second story of their Belvoir Road home, but they hadn’t found the right fit until a meeting with Flaglor.
“We got some quotes from other people, and I’m not really sure even they knew what they wanted to do,” Mulhern said. “When Bob came in and went through everything with us and walked out the door, my wife turned to me and said, ‘That’s the guy that’s doing our windows.’
“He not only knew what he was doing, but he listened to what we wanted and incorporated that when everyone else kind of just told us what they wanted to do.”
The team from Window & Door Solutions was in and out of the Mulhern home within four days, completing a total rebuild of the framework that secures their new windows. And they couldn’t be happier.
“Our old windows were not very energy-efficient,” Mulhern said. “They were drafty and there was rotting wood everywhere. It’s like a different house right now, and surprisingly way quieter.”
Noise reduction is one of the commonly unthought-of perks to upgrading windows in a home. In fact, when visiting Flaglor’s showroom, the sound of traffic on Transit Road is hardly noticeable.
And energy efficiency is another benefit that will pay dividends down the road.
“We had a guy that did his windows a year ago, and he called me up exclaiming, ‘They just dropped my balanced billing 30 dollars a month!’” Flaglor said. “He didn’t even realize there was that big of a difference until that.”
To schedule a consultation and estimate, contact Window & Door Solutions at 689-2100.