September 7, 2025 • 29 mins
Today it's all about windows and doors...we welcome Chris Perez of American Vision Windows to talk about how to improve the window and door situation in your home, a critical component of your home and the value of making sure both are as energy efficient as possible.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Dean Sharp,
the house Whisper, Custom home Builder, custom home designer, and
you know your guide to better understanding that place where
you live.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
That's what we do every week here on the show.
This week we're doing it by having a conversation about
windows and doors on your home and to add even
more weight to it. Sitting across the table from me,
my very special in studio guest, Chris Perez, President of
American Vision Windows. Chris thrilled that you're here today.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So we were you before we went to the phones
and took calls. We were talking about the components of windows.
I want to just finish up. We were talking about
the IGU, the insulated glass unit, which is the heart
of every window or sliding door. We've talked about the glass,
and we've talked about ar gone and Krypton and all
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of that kind of stuff. We get asked about energy
coatings a lot, right Lowe, Lowie. It started out years
and years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't even how long.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What's it been now, like thirty plus years at LERI
with low E codings and now we're up to We've
gone through one, two, three, now we're up to low
E four. Correct, right, So just a couple of things
about Lowe cote. Why are they there? And where are they?
Here's the question I want you to answer, where are
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they because I've got some people who are scared to
death about cleaning their windows too harshly because they're like,
I don't want to damage the low E coding. So
tell us why they're there and tell us where they
are in the window so everybody can relax.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
So yeah, So the low E coding is there for
obviously energy efficiency reading. It's going to prevent your solar
heat gain from coming into the house. That's a lot
of different things that it does. It's it's been around,
like you said, over thirty years. It was it was
neither a requirement to twenty years. I mean it's started
to becoming more of a requirement fifteen to twenty years
ago with the cities and municipalities because it's trying to
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be more of an energy efficient home now.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
So that's why we use low E.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I can get into a lot of the details of it,
but what I was going to say, is on the
on the dual pain glass. Basically, there's two pieces of glass.
There's a number one surfaces, which is the outside of
your house. There's a number two surfaces, which is inside
of that first.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Right, all right, let me I'm just gonna underscore what
you're saying. Okay, you we talk. We're about to talk
about surfaces. Four surfaces of glass. Correct you You number
these surfaces from outside the house, right, So the first
glass surface is one, and then it goes from there,
all right, go right, go.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
To one, and then the insides of that glass is two.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Then the inside of the other piece of glasses three,
and then the inside of your house and facing you,
touching you is number four.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So the only pieces of glass that we actually touch
in our windows is one the outside pane surface and
four the inside pain surface, okay, and the inside.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
So people have said that they're worried about scratching, they're lowly.
The lowly coating is on the number two surface.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You're not going to scratch it.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
You can't get to it. You can't get you can't
reach it.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's stilled.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
You can't damage it. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Clean glass, clean your windows, well, not a lot of
One of the things that's nice about the glass we
sell now, they have a lot of I don't know
if you've heard about neat glass or or basically self
cleaning glass they call it. But there are some properties
they put into glass now that pretty much all of
our windows have where it actually prevents the exterior from
getting it actually uses the sun, and it actually heats
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it up unless well we remove the dust from your
windows without you having to do anything, right.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So there there are some you could call them coatings
that can be applied to the exterior surface of windows,
but those are not your energy emissive. You're not going
to scratch them and you're not going to mess with
them anyway, so none to worry about.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And they're also there also is when we talk about lowis,
there's like you said, there's one, two, three, four coats
now that are very popular. Obviously, every code of LOWI
is going to reduce the light transmission into your house.
So if you're in a space where you want a
lot of light, you're can want less LOWE if you can,
and you don't, But at the same time, you're sort
of defeeding the reason of getting the glass because you're
trying to get exactly exactly making the energy efficiency of
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your house. But there's a lot of different options we have.
We have a fourth coat you can put on the
inside later glass. It's called hardcoats. You're not gonna scratch
that either. That's going to be something for me if
you if you're one of those people that don't like
the heteron in the winter, it's going to help you.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Out, sorry good.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And there are some some if you're if you're listening
to us from the east coast or in a heavily
winter environment, there are some energy coatings that get on
surface get put on surface three that do a better
job of holding heat inside the house because they're not
so worried about the sun blazing in from outside, but
undiversial like keeping things you know warm during the winter.
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But yeah, so the the point is, don't worry about
the low e coatings. They have to be there. And
you've heard us throw around this term title twenty four.
I just want to clarify that for everybody. Title twenty
four in the State of California law code is the
chapter that a chapter. It's a huge section that is
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the California Building Code. Okay, so when we say Title
twenty four California Building Code, now, most of the California
Building Code is just an adoption of the International Building Code,
but California adds its own tweaks to it, as you
could imagine, especially when it comes to energy efficiency and
things like that. And so that's why we always refer
to are these windows going to be Title twenty four compliant?
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Because there are some things that other states can get
away with that we can't do here in California. We
are extra energy conscientious when it comes to that. So
just know that if you're buying windows in the state
of California, you are literally getting the best energy conservation
windows that are made.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
There is just so many we were just talking about earlier.
Their codes changed quite often, and they can raising the bar.
They're having these kind of windows.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Now.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I think we don't know. It's called Energy Star. Everybody's
probably heard of energy Star before. A lot of windows
don't qualify for Energy Star. They might qualify for a
Title twenty four, but they don't qualify for Energy Star.
The standards hired in Colorado on some of these other
states we're going to, California.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Will be adopting that. Yeah, we'll have to be able
to make them better. Of course we will. Of course
we will, because you know, your job in mind is
not hard enough as it is already.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And the manufacturers just laughed.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
They're like, how are we going to make any exactly?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
All right?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Hey, when we come back.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So there's two more things I want to get done
before we're done today. One I want to spend I'm
going to let the designer out of his room a
little bit. I want to spend some time talking about
the actual style of windows functionally, right, whether we're to
whether we're talking sliders, double hung casemen, single hung awnings, hoppers,
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you know, all that stuff. I also want to talk
about the grids and the grid patterns that are available.
But when we come back, I would like you to
describe for us the expectation. Let's say we've we've already
picked out that stuff, and what's the installation process going
to look like. What's it going to look like for
you guys, because I'm setting you, guys up as the
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quintessential installation experience because everything else from there goes lower
and worse. So I want you to explain to people
what their expectation should be, how long is it going
to take, how messed up is the house going to get?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
And you know just what to expect you too with that?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
All right, all right, we will do that and so
much more when we return your Home with Dean Sharp
the house Whisper.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI a M six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Here to help you take your home to the next level.
We're doing that today by having conversation about doors and windows.
And you know, we're just scratching the surface of all
the places that we could go with this, but I'm
trying to give you a cursory overview so you understand
a little bit more about what you'll be looking at
in terms of buying new windows and dexterior doors.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
For your home.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
To help me do that in my in studio guests
Chris Perez, president of American Vision Windows.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Sitting right across the table from me.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Chris, before the break, I said, I wanted to get
at least take one segment, get a little down and
dirty and talk about what's the expectation for the installation process.
Because we got people listening from San Diego all the
way through California. You guys service that entire area. Uh So,
what's going to happen next?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What should people expect? What do you what do you
guys do?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Take Yeah, So when you uh, you reach out to
us one way or another, either through you guys on
the radio or or just at one of our events,
you're gonna out at some point with us. We're gonna
get out. We're gonna get an estimate, or out to
your house. We're going to have them go through the
different products we sell. See, we're going to try to
make sure we buy the find the window for you,
not we find that. We want you to have the
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window that you went in your house. We don't want
to tell you what to all right.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So point A is that you guys carry a lot
different manufacturers. It's not like a lot of window company.
And by the way, just to clarify, a window installation
company what we call a window and door company, they're
not manufacturers, right. You guys are contractors installing windows into
people's houses, providing the windows and selling them and so on.
So some guys out there just have one, you know,
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maybe an off brand or a secret window brand. We
don't even know about they just carry one kind of
window and so guess what. You know, it's that old
classic you know aphorism, where like you know, to the
person who only has a hammer, every problem is a nail,
right and so and so guess what, Oh, our window
is the perfect one. You don't really care because you.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Are an installation company.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, you carry a wide spectrum of window brands and
price points and materials everything from vinyl to fiberglass, to
woodclad to aluminum and so on. So you guys are
first of all, I would say as a designer, yeah,
absolutely talk to a window company, installation company that whose
goal is to give you the window that your house
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needs most, the one that you actually need.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
That's what But that's what we uh, that's what I've
done for years, and I think that fact is the
customers really appreciate it because we don't walk in, like
you said, with one product and this is the only product.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
We walk in and give you an option.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Here's what we have there says that there's a pros
and cons to everything though, there's pros to wood windows
and there's cons to wood windows, you know, and then
we can find the product for you, and then we
can install it. You know, we people always ask me, like,
what does it be like to be the largest window company?
I go, well, first of all, I'm the largest installation company,
right because what sets us apart is our installation is
what you're talking about. What happens. So we go through
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that process. I mean, you're get you're getting us to
come out. We're going to get an estimate for you.
We're going to show you how it's going to work.
We're gonna find out where our cars, our trucks are
going to park. We're gonna we're going to walk you
through the whole process, point A to point B. You
should feel very comfortable with us when we leave that
house and you decided to move move forward with us
as a project as a project manager that you would
You're comfortable that it's going to be done the right way.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So you're even talking details of like here's where the
truck are going to park.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Yeah, we have to do we do everything. We redesigned
the house too. There's a lot of times people have
an exo window. The slides from left or right or
where right to left, and there could be just one
thing that they've never even thought about.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
They live their beds right here.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Hey, you just move this window this direction this time,
or are you just give the different options for designing
their house with the right product? And then, of course
that's what our project managers. They go out there and
they go through everything. Most of our project managers have
been here, I mean ten fifteen years. Our longevity at
a company out of two hundred and I think thirty
employees now is about fourteen years, which is that fantastic?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That is really unheard of. Okay, so you've helped me
pick out the windows. We've chosen the style, and we're
going to talk about styles in a bit. But you've
chosen the style. I've committed, you know, I've paid you guys,
or the down payment of the deposit or whatever. Day
of install what's happening day of install?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
So day installed depends on how many crews we have.
We're going to send multiple crews most of the time,
and the trucks are going to pull up, they're going
to immediately set and they basically stage the whole project.
They find the windows that are there currently they're going
to be replaced. They match them up to the products
that are on their trucks and make sure it's all
there before we start ripping out windows, because that would
be bad. It would be bad, So we make sure
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all that happens. They also go into the home. They
work with the homeworder to decide if they need to
help them move furniture. Most of the time we ask
them homeworder to move, you know, give us about twenty
four inches away from the window. But sometimes they can't,
so we'll move furniture for them.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
A lot of times we'll do don't tell them that.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I know, it's sort of don't tell them you're going
to move the furniture for them.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You're right, we don't ever move for neure.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Can we edit that out? Okay, all right, now, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
But there are times when we've had to do that
before when our guys get there and they forgot about
it or whatever. But you know what, pretty I think
we're pretty easy to get along with. We go in
and our trucks are there, we're clean. We all actually
a lot of times talk to neighbors and make sure
it's okay to park there for the day. There's a
lot of things that we think do in different other
companies because some people I don't think care. We're just
like oh, when you're tarping off stuff, we tarp off everything.
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Sometimes we make these zip walls, which is basically a
fake wall to the dust from going to the house
if we're doing a full construction job, because obviously that's
ripping stuff out, and to me not to say rip yes,
that's all right, that's all right, it's basically cutting into
drive on, stuck out and things like that causes more dust.
So sometimes we'll put a zip ball up there is
basically like a plastic wall to protect your house from
getting more dust than it's gonna get, right, and then
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after it's then and done. Typically, I mean, I would
say majority of our retrofit jobs get done in a
day day to two. We go week clean and if
and i'd like my reviews, say I think that that
we leave your house probably cleaner than when we got there.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Don't tell them that either. They're gonna call you just
for house clean. Oh my gosh, you're right, all right,
all right, we're gonna finish this. Come we're gonna continue
this conversation with Chris pres from American Vision Windows. Right
after the break, you are home with Dean Sharp the
house whisper.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI a M six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Here to transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home.
That's right, it can be done. I help you do
it every single week here on the program. Today we're
having a conversation about exterior doors and windows. I want
to transition to exterior doors as quickly as we can.
There's just so much to talk about and to do
it here with my special in studio guest, Chris Perez,
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president of American Vision Windows, who is gracing our studio
this morning, and he and I just get to talk
shop and we're gonna I promise, I'm going to keep
things moving along because we could just deep dive into
all this stuff because we are window nerds, self confessed
window nerds. So we'll keep moving along to make it
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best for you as well.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Chris.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
All right, so we've talked about installed, We've talked about
a lot of things so far. A couple of different
kinds of windows relevant to life here in southern California.
One fire windows, fire rated windows, two acoustic rated windows
or what people mistakenly call soundproof windows. Let's just talk
about the fire first. Okay, fire rated windows people ask
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all the time, what's the difference between a fire window,
fire rated window, and a regular window.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
So the difference is on a there's a nailed glass
and there's tempered glass, and so basically the standard glass
that if you break it, it's going to fall down
a big chunks.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
That' you're a nailed glass, which most windows are made
out of.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
And then there's a tempered glass which is going to
break in small little pieces like your car with shields
sort of if that ever broke. So on a fire
tempered window, it's typically the inside paine of the glass
that doesn't have the low e coating that's actually tempered
and the outside pain is not tempered. Now that doesn't
mean you can't have the outside pain tempering. That's a
full tempered window, and that's basically for safety reasons because
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it's too close to a bathroom drain or someone's going
to get hurt of it if they walk into or
break into it. But fire tempering has actually been proven
to prevent the window from exploding and letting the flames
comeing and goulf your house, and that's why they start
requiring fire tempered windows. The tempered glass is that can
withstand a lot more heat than it.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Right, and so so annealed glass, that's what we would
just what everybody knows is standard glass, right, the annealed
process and then the tempering process. Tempered glass is actually
produced at a much higher heat temperature while it's being produced.
So that's why it can resist higher temperatures. And the
reason that's important is very much simply this annealed glass.
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It's not like anneal glass just gives up on you, right,
It can actually hold up to a lot of temperature
if the temperature that the anneal glass is subjected to
is even on both sides of the glass. And that's
the key, and that's what doesn't happen with your house.
So the fire approaches your home and it's produced in
temperatures of one thousand plus degrees outside, and of course
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you know your lovely air conditioned home, it's about seventy
two degrees on the inside. So the annealed glass wants
to expand on one side, it doesn't get to expand
on the other, and it shatters. And as soon as
it shatters, now there's a hole in your house, and
now the flames have a way of getting inside. And
that's basically what This comes down to the tempered glass
holds up. It's strong enough to hold up to the
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temperature differential outside to inside it. Therefore it doesn't shatter. Therefore,
even when the flames are outside your house, you don't
have a brand new hole cut in the house that
the flames can actually because once the flames get inside
your house, that's when your house is pretty much a
lost cause. That's in a wildfire situation. That's when it
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is at highest risk. So we want to keep those
those those apertures closed, and that's what the fire glass does.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
And then to your point, like when we had obviously
California had a bunch of fires recently and some of
the houses we've gone to are still standing. And you
go and we check and got it. It's called a bug.
It's got a tempered bug on it. And that window
and this house right next to it didn't right. And
you know, we can't say that's one hundred percent of
the time, but a lot of times that tempered glass
does make a big difference.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And by the way, all sliding glass doors are tempered
glass because they have to be every in California in
just a general building code. Any glass that is closer
than eighteen inches to the floor, eighteen inches above the
floor or closer. That glass has to be tempered because
it's what the code considers to be in the kick
zone where people can kick it and they don't want
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that glass to break, So that inner panel is tempered.
On sliding glass doors and windows that get set low.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
So the windows that are lower, both panes of glass
are tempered. Right, you don't need fire tempering because they're
both already tempered. So fire tempering is just a code
that we use, or just a term we use. Then
when we're going to take your standard window that's not
required by safety, no kicking or nothing, we just do
that just because it's on a fire zone, right.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
And then upgrade it.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
And a lot of homes, a lot of the minimum
requirement these days in southern California is if you're facing
an open space, then the windows that face the open
space have have got to be fire rated, even though
it's the best idea, I think, just to fire rate
the whole house if you're subjected to it, so that
all pens. You have to check with your local municipality
and find out what they're requiring from you.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
When it comes to that.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
All right, let's talk about acoustic windows, okay, or the
the the you know as I like to call misnamed
soundproof windows.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yeah, we we hate that, we because people call us
all the time. Can you get I want those soundproof windows?
Will there are nothing soundproof but in the window and
when we'll window the world. But there is definitely an
acoustic advantage at some of the windows. And it's basically
a window that has offset glass. So offset glass is
one B one paint of the glasses thicker or thinner
than the other pane of glass, and it prevents the
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decipel the sound waves from coming into that glass easier.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
So like I always sort of relate it to like a.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Drummer that he uses drums and they might have two
remo heads on their drums that they're the same axac head.
So it's going to give you more sound coming through
that drum versus if they had offsets drum heads, they
would actually be less sound coming through.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
That, right, Because and we talk about so I do
a soundproofing show at least once a year, and so
everybody who's a regular listener should know that I've said
again and again sound proofing like what we're sitting here
in this studio is a layered process. It takes layers
and layers in different There is no silver bullet material
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or one element that can be done. It's got to
be a little of this and a little of that,
on top of this and on top of that. But
the goal is always this sound is an energy wave,
and so anything that disrupts the resonant transfer of energy
through a solid medium is going to be an acoustic
reduction thing. So, for instance, a single Paine old style window,
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which a lot of homes still have them, It's just
one pane of glass, and so sound comes right through it, right, Sound,
a wave hits that one side, it gets translated to
the other and comes right into the house, right, the
vibration of that glass dual glazed. Just getting new windows,
even if they're not even is a significant indecibel reduction,
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I mean quieting down a house in a huge way
versus single pain. But on top of that, there are
acoustic windows which uses this this technique of offset glass
to quiet down even more. They won't be sound proof, nope, okay,
but the reduction in noise is significant.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
And then when they talk about it like you're talking
about your single Paine glass. When they talked about percentages
the STC levels of something sound reduction glasses glass, you'll
be three four hundred, five hundred percent better than you
what you had before.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
And it's gigantic numbers. It's not.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
It's because it's you know, all you would have to
do is go from one point to another point to
be one hundred percent and just go.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
About five points. So it is. It is significant.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I've been in places where you can put a radio
on the outside of the house before we replace the window.
We actually did this for some media stuff. Put it
before we replace the window, and the old you can
hear it perfectly. After we're done, same radio, same volume, everything,
can't hear it.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, amazing stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
All right, We've still got more for you your Home
with Dean Sharp, the else whisper.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2 (22:06):
Helping you take your home to the next level as
we always do. Here we are nearing the end of
another three hours together. Can you believe it? Here on
this Labor Day weekend, I hope that it has been
informative and entertaining for you. We've been sitting here with
my very special in studio guest, Chris Perez, President of
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American Vision Windows.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Chris.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Before I go on, I gotta let you say your
due about it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
So you guys are celebrating twenty five years and the
grand reopening of the Semi Valley Showroom, which is HQ.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Isn't it? Yeah? Is HQ. That's the first.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So you got we got something going on this coming Saturday,
Saturday the sixth.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
From eleven to three o'clock. We're having food trucks and everything.
Just come over come to our new showroom. We've we've
updated a lot of things. We have a lot of
fun stuff in there for you to see, and we're
gonna have some jumpies.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
For the kids.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
We've got cornhole tournament with professional corn all kinds of
stuff going on over there.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It's gonna be fun, awesome, And some of you guys
are gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Too, and some some of us schleps from the station
here are going to actually.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Uh. Tim Conway is going to be on Conway.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Gary Hoffins is going to be out there, and I'm
going to be out there hanging out and I might
even do a little Q and A for people.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You know, that would be pretty fun if there's an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Yeah, you're gonna Actually, the funny thing is you're gonna
be able to go with through our room and you
might even have people ask your questions because you'll you'll
be able to answer because we have a full construction
wall that shows every part of the construction from lath
to scratch to your point brown. And we have it
from from a retrofit window to a full on new
fin windows.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
So maybe maybe I'll just give tours. That's what I'll
just do tours. I'll do tours. I will let Gary
and Tim be their entertaining selves and I will just
do my damn job and show people how to put
windows in their house, because you know that's you know,
every I was excited. We're gonna stay in my wheelhouse.
That's all I'm saying. We're excited to have you help
on this. It's going to be great. So that's going
to be this coming sets coming Saturday the sixth at
(24:05):
the Semi Valley Show where everybody should get out and
check it out and we'll have a good time and
hugs for everyone. For me, at least, I don't know
about Tim, but for me, you can come get a
hug from me. All right, before we're done today. What
we haven't really talked about, I don't know we're gonna
I'm gonna have a lot of time to talk about grids.
But I did want to talk about the various materials
(24:26):
that windows are made in these days. And you know,
kind of we've got vinyl, what eighty percent of the
windows that you guys probably sell something close to that vinyl,
you know, which is a great material we were talking
about sound transmission. Of all the of all the materials,
vinyl is probably the most naturally sound deadening because it's
(24:46):
a terrible conductor of energy, right, correct, And if you're
wondering what that, you know, just remember sound is energy, Okay,
Heat is also energy, right, It's all energy. So if
you can imagine a material that if we hooked up
an electric wire two and you've got a shock from
that's a really good conductor of energy. And it also
turns out those are the worst offenders when it comes
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to transmitting heat inside the house from the outside or
sound inside unless they are and I'm not pooh pooing,
by the way, aluminum windows or metal windows, but they
have to be what we call, you know, the the
bridge has to be broken from the outside thermally broken windows,
which means that the outside frame is not actually positively
(25:30):
connected to the inside frame and so that energy gets
dissipated as it tries to get inside. Right, But it's
important because there are non thermally broken windows out there.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Well, that's the thing that even with the windows you're
talking about the vinyl, there's a lot of chambers in
vinyl to first for rigidity, and that what actually prevents
hate from going through too, as well as sound. So
a lot of those things that these windows are made
for are actually helping all of the all the processes
that we need, which is are sound and are heat
control exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
So fiberglass windows fantastic, now, right, They're strong, they're rigid.
It's a stronger material than vinyl, natural material, so they
can be smaller in size and edging vinyl it can
get a little clunky sometimes, especially on a smaller window,
but just because vinyl is a soft material, and so
you have to have more structure of the vinyl, Yeah,
a thicker frame to hold it up. But you still
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sell wood windows, wood clad windows.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah, wood cloud is very popular. We do. We do
a bunch of wood cloud. Actually, as we do more
and more homes. If you ever go to our website,
there's a pen drop that shows all the homes we've
done in California and it's just all red.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
But as we start doing more homes, people starting wanting
more products. So we started doing wood cloud several years ago.
We've always done it, but started specialize in it now.
We have special teams because we don't use I think
I said before, we don't use our subcontractors. We have
all employees or installers are all employees, and we have
teams that are wood Cloud employee installers and teams that
are Vinyl installers.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I think of woodcloud windows as kind of the penultimate,
you know, the expression of the classic window in the
twenty first century. And it gives you that luck because
wood clad window on the outside is clad in like
a metal cladding, right, and so it's weather proofed on
the outside. But on the inside, the wood is exposed
and so we can stain it, we can paint it,
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we can do whatever we want. So we've got wood
inside where it counts, and cladding on the outside for
weatherproofing where that counts as well.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
And like you said about grids, you know the lights
of glass that used to be actually separated by the grids.
Now you can put the interior grids on exterior grids
so you can get the look.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
You know, I'm an opacity in a home.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Any of these homes that have that really rich old look,
we can update their windows with energy fission product and
make it look just as like it did before.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
All right, So I'm going to let the designer out
of the box just one more time and just leave
this one thing for people. In our conversation today, Chris
has mentioned it a couple of times. I'm going to
underscore it. When you're have in your windows changed out,
it is an opportunity. It's not just about okay, we've
got to get my windows changed out because these old
ones are crappy and want new, more energy efficient windows.
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That's all great, okay, But when you have your windows
change out, you have a momentous opportunity, an opportunity perhaps
to change the configuration of the window. Maybe you change
the style of the window. Maybe you've got a sliding
window right now and it could be converted in the
new one could be a crank out casement window, one
that is hinges out. Maybe you can put in a
(28:24):
double hum or a single hung window, one that where
the sash moves vertically up and down right, the classic
old style window. You have so many options. You should
think it through, okay, because again, like I say, design
matters most when it comes to this and the grid patterns.
The grid patterns can make or break whether your new
windows cohere with the style and just and continue to
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tell the story of the style of your house or
fight against it. So just remember you've got all of
these choices in the window world, and companies like American
Vision are here to help you take your time, get
the right selection, and get it done well. Chris, thanks
for being on the show today.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Thanks so much. I really appreciate you. Let us come
here day.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
All right, Well, you're gonna come back because we're gonna
spend another three hours talking about all the things we
did not talk about today.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It is a deep poll, it is all right.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And for the rest of you, it's a beautiful labor
day weekend. The weather is warm but it's sunny, So
get out there and get busy building yourself a beautiful life,
and we'll see you right back here next weekend.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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you live.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
That's what we do every week here on the show.
This week we're doing it by having a conversation about
windows and doors on your home and to add even
more weight to it. Sitting across the table from me,
my very special in studio guest, Chris Perez, President of
American Vision Windows. Chris thrilled that you're here today.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So we were you before we went to the phones
and took calls. We were talking about the components of windows.
I want to just finish up. We were talking about
the IGU, the insulated glass unit, which is the heart
of every window or sliding door. We've talked about the glass,
and we've talked about ar gone and Krypton and all
(01:00):
of that kind of stuff. We get asked about energy
coatings a lot, right Lowe, Lowie. It started out years
and years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't even how long.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What's it been now, like thirty plus years at LERI
with low E codings and now we're up to We've
gone through one, two, three, now we're up to low
E four. Correct, right, So just a couple of things
about Lowe cote. Why are they there? And where are they?
Here's the question I want you to answer, where are
(01:31):
they because I've got some people who are scared to
death about cleaning their windows too harshly because they're like,
I don't want to damage the low E coding. So
tell us why they're there and tell us where they
are in the window so everybody can relax.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
So yeah, So the low E coding is there for
obviously energy efficiency reading. It's going to prevent your solar
heat gain from coming into the house. That's a lot
of different things that it does. It's it's been around,
like you said, over thirty years. It was it was
neither a requirement to twenty years. I mean it's started
to becoming more of a requirement fifteen to twenty years
ago with the cities and municipalities because it's trying to
(02:07):
be more of an energy efficient home now.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
So that's why we use low E.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I can get into a lot of the details of it,
but what I was going to say, is on the
on the dual pain glass. Basically, there's two pieces of glass.
There's a number one surfaces, which is the outside of
your house. There's a number two surfaces, which is inside
of that first.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Right, all right, let me I'm just gonna underscore what
you're saying. Okay, you we talk. We're about to talk
about surfaces. Four surfaces of glass. Correct you You number
these surfaces from outside the house, right, So the first
glass surface is one, and then it goes from there,
all right, go right, go.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
To one, and then the insides of that glass is two.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Then the inside of the other piece of glasses three,
and then the inside of your house and facing you,
touching you is number four.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So the only pieces of glass that we actually touch
in our windows is one the outside pane surface and
four the inside pain surface, okay, and the inside.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
So people have said that they're worried about scratching, they're lowly.
The lowly coating is on the number two surface.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You're not going to scratch it.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
You can't get to it. You can't get you can't
reach it.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's stilled.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
You can't damage it. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Clean glass, clean your windows, well, not a lot of
One of the things that's nice about the glass we
sell now, they have a lot of I don't know
if you've heard about neat glass or or basically self
cleaning glass they call it. But there are some properties
they put into glass now that pretty much all of
our windows have where it actually prevents the exterior from
getting it actually uses the sun, and it actually heats
(03:36):
it up unless well we remove the dust from your
windows without you having to do anything, right.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So there there are some you could call them coatings
that can be applied to the exterior surface of windows,
but those are not your energy emissive. You're not going
to scratch them and you're not going to mess with
them anyway, so none to worry about.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And they're also there also is when we talk about lowis,
there's like you said, there's one, two, three, four coats
now that are very popular. Obviously, every code of LOWI
is going to reduce the light transmission into your house.
So if you're in a space where you want a
lot of light, you're can want less LOWE if you can,
and you don't, But at the same time, you're sort
of defeeding the reason of getting the glass because you're
trying to get exactly exactly making the energy efficiency of
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your house. But there's a lot of different options we have.
We have a fourth coat you can put on the
inside later glass. It's called hardcoats. You're not gonna scratch
that either. That's going to be something for me if
you if you're one of those people that don't like
the heteron in the winter, it's going to help you.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Out, sorry good.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And there are some some if you're if you're listening
to us from the east coast or in a heavily
winter environment, there are some energy coatings that get on
surface get put on surface three that do a better
job of holding heat inside the house because they're not
so worried about the sun blazing in from outside, but
undiversial like keeping things you know warm during the winter.
(04:53):
But yeah, so the the point is, don't worry about
the low e coatings. They have to be there. And
you've heard us throw around this term title twenty four.
I just want to clarify that for everybody. Title twenty
four in the State of California law code is the
chapter that a chapter. It's a huge section that is
(05:14):
the California Building Code. Okay, so when we say Title
twenty four California Building Code, now, most of the California
Building Code is just an adoption of the International Building Code,
but California adds its own tweaks to it, as you
could imagine, especially when it comes to energy efficiency and
things like that. And so that's why we always refer
to are these windows going to be Title twenty four compliant?
(05:37):
Because there are some things that other states can get
away with that we can't do here in California. We
are extra energy conscientious when it comes to that. So
just know that if you're buying windows in the state
of California, you are literally getting the best energy conservation
windows that are made.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
There is just so many we were just talking about earlier.
Their codes changed quite often, and they can raising the bar.
They're having these kind of windows.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Now.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I think we don't know. It's called Energy Star. Everybody's
probably heard of energy Star before. A lot of windows
don't qualify for Energy Star. They might qualify for a
Title twenty four, but they don't qualify for Energy Star.
The standards hired in Colorado on some of these other
states we're going to, California.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Will be adopting that. Yeah, we'll have to be able
to make them better. Of course we will. Of course
we will, because you know, your job in mind is
not hard enough as it is already.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And the manufacturers just laughed.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
They're like, how are we going to make any exactly?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
All right?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Hey, when we come back.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So there's two more things I want to get done
before we're done today. One I want to spend I'm
going to let the designer out of his room a
little bit. I want to spend some time talking about
the actual style of windows functionally, right, whether we're to
whether we're talking sliders, double hung casemen, single hung awnings, hoppers,
(06:54):
you know, all that stuff. I also want to talk
about the grids and the grid patterns that are available.
But when we come back, I would like you to
describe for us the expectation. Let's say we've we've already
picked out that stuff, and what's the installation process going
to look like. What's it going to look like for
you guys, because I'm setting you, guys up as the
(07:15):
quintessential installation experience because everything else from there goes lower
and worse. So I want you to explain to people
what their expectation should be, how long is it going
to take, how messed up is the house going to get?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
And you know just what to expect you too with that?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
All right, all right, we will do that and so
much more when we return your Home with Dean Sharp
the house Whisper.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI a M six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Here to help you take your home to the next level.
We're doing that today by having conversation about doors and windows.
And you know, we're just scratching the surface of all
the places that we could go with this, but I'm
trying to give you a cursory overview so you understand
a little bit more about what you'll be looking at
in terms of buying new windows and dexterior doors.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
For your home.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
To help me do that in my in studio guests
Chris Perez, president of American Vision Windows.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Sitting right across the table from me.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Chris, before the break, I said, I wanted to get
at least take one segment, get a little down and
dirty and talk about what's the expectation for the installation process.
Because we got people listening from San Diego all the
way through California. You guys service that entire area. Uh So,
what's going to happen next?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What should people expect? What do you what do you
guys do?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Take Yeah, So when you uh, you reach out to
us one way or another, either through you guys on
the radio or or just at one of our events,
you're gonna out at some point with us. We're gonna
get out. We're gonna get an estimate, or out to
your house. We're going to have them go through the
different products we sell. See, we're going to try to
make sure we buy the find the window for you,
not we find that. We want you to have the
(08:55):
window that you went in your house. We don't want
to tell you what to all right.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So point A is that you guys carry a lot
different manufacturers. It's not like a lot of window company.
And by the way, just to clarify, a window installation
company what we call a window and door company, they're
not manufacturers, right. You guys are contractors installing windows into
people's houses, providing the windows and selling them and so on.
So some guys out there just have one, you know,
(09:20):
maybe an off brand or a secret window brand. We
don't even know about they just carry one kind of
window and so guess what. You know, it's that old
classic you know aphorism, where like you know, to the
person who only has a hammer, every problem is a nail,
right and so and so guess what, Oh, our window
is the perfect one. You don't really care because you.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Are an installation company.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, you carry a wide spectrum of window brands and
price points and materials everything from vinyl to fiberglass, to
woodclad to aluminum and so on. So you guys are
first of all, I would say as a designer, yeah,
absolutely talk to a window company, installation company that whose
goal is to give you the window that your house
(10:01):
needs most, the one that you actually need.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
That's what But that's what we uh, that's what I've
done for years, and I think that fact is the
customers really appreciate it because we don't walk in, like
you said, with one product and this is the only product.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
We walk in and give you an option.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Here's what we have there says that there's a pros
and cons to everything though, there's pros to wood windows
and there's cons to wood windows, you know, and then
we can find the product for you, and then we
can install it. You know, we people always ask me, like,
what does it be like to be the largest window company?
I go, well, first of all, I'm the largest installation company,
right because what sets us apart is our installation is
what you're talking about. What happens. So we go through
(10:35):
that process. I mean, you're get you're getting us to
come out. We're going to get an estimate for you.
We're going to show you how it's going to work.
We're gonna find out where our cars, our trucks are
going to park. We're gonna we're going to walk you
through the whole process, point A to point B. You
should feel very comfortable with us when we leave that
house and you decided to move move forward with us
as a project as a project manager that you would
You're comfortable that it's going to be done the right way.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So you're even talking details of like here's where the
truck are going to park.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Yeah, we have to do we do everything. We redesigned
the house too. There's a lot of times people have
an exo window. The slides from left or right or
where right to left, and there could be just one
thing that they've never even thought about.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
They live their beds right here.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Hey, you just move this window this direction this time,
or are you just give the different options for designing
their house with the right product? And then, of course
that's what our project managers. They go out there and
they go through everything. Most of our project managers have
been here, I mean ten fifteen years. Our longevity at
a company out of two hundred and I think thirty
employees now is about fourteen years, which is that fantastic?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That is really unheard of. Okay, so you've helped me
pick out the windows. We've chosen the style, and we're
going to talk about styles in a bit. But you've
chosen the style. I've committed, you know, I've paid you guys,
or the down payment of the deposit or whatever. Day
of install what's happening day of install?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
So day installed depends on how many crews we have.
We're going to send multiple crews most of the time,
and the trucks are going to pull up, they're going
to immediately set and they basically stage the whole project.
They find the windows that are there currently they're going
to be replaced. They match them up to the products
that are on their trucks and make sure it's all
there before we start ripping out windows, because that would
be bad. It would be bad, So we make sure
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all that happens. They also go into the home. They
work with the homeworder to decide if they need to
help them move furniture. Most of the time we ask
them homeworder to move, you know, give us about twenty
four inches away from the window. But sometimes they can't,
so we'll move furniture for them.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
A lot of times we'll do don't tell them that.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I know, it's sort of don't tell them you're going
to move the furniture for them.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You're right, we don't ever move for neure.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Can we edit that out? Okay, all right, now, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
But there are times when we've had to do that
before when our guys get there and they forgot about
it or whatever. But you know what, pretty I think
we're pretty easy to get along with. We go in
and our trucks are there, we're clean. We all actually
a lot of times talk to neighbors and make sure
it's okay to park there for the day. There's a
lot of things that we think do in different other
companies because some people I don't think care. We're just
like oh, when you're tarping off stuff, we tarp off everything.
(12:56):
Sometimes we make these zip walls, which is basically a
fake wall to the dust from going to the house
if we're doing a full construction job, because obviously that's
ripping stuff out, and to me not to say rip yes,
that's all right, that's all right, it's basically cutting into
drive on, stuck out and things like that causes more dust.
So sometimes we'll put a zip ball up there is
basically like a plastic wall to protect your house from
getting more dust than it's gonna get, right, and then
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after it's then and done. Typically, I mean, I would
say majority of our retrofit jobs get done in a
day day to two. We go week clean and if
and i'd like my reviews, say I think that that
we leave your house probably cleaner than when we got there.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Don't tell them that either. They're gonna call you just
for house clean. Oh my gosh, you're right, all right,
all right, we're gonna finish this. Come we're gonna continue
this conversation with Chris pres from American Vision Windows. Right
after the break, you are home with Dean Sharp the
house whisper.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI a M six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Here to transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home.
That's right, it can be done. I help you do
it every single week here on the program. Today we're
having a conversation about exterior doors and windows. I want
to transition to exterior doors as quickly as we can.
There's just so much to talk about and to do
it here with my special in studio guest, Chris Perez,
(14:15):
president of American Vision Windows, who is gracing our studio
this morning, and he and I just get to talk
shop and we're gonna I promise, I'm going to keep
things moving along because we could just deep dive into
all this stuff because we are window nerds, self confessed
window nerds. So we'll keep moving along to make it
(14:35):
best for you as well.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Chris.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
All right, so we've talked about installed, We've talked about
a lot of things so far. A couple of different
kinds of windows relevant to life here in southern California.
One fire windows, fire rated windows, two acoustic rated windows
or what people mistakenly call soundproof windows. Let's just talk
about the fire first. Okay, fire rated windows people ask
(15:03):
all the time, what's the difference between a fire window,
fire rated window, and a regular window.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
So the difference is on a there's a nailed glass
and there's tempered glass, and so basically the standard glass
that if you break it, it's going to fall down
a big chunks.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
That' you're a nailed glass, which most windows are made
out of.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
And then there's a tempered glass which is going to
break in small little pieces like your car with shields
sort of if that ever broke. So on a fire
tempered window, it's typically the inside paine of the glass
that doesn't have the low e coating that's actually tempered
and the outside pain is not tempered. Now that doesn't
mean you can't have the outside pain tempering. That's a
full tempered window, and that's basically for safety reasons because
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it's too close to a bathroom drain or someone's going
to get hurt of it if they walk into or
break into it. But fire tempering has actually been proven
to prevent the window from exploding and letting the flames
comeing and goulf your house, and that's why they start
requiring fire tempered windows. The tempered glass is that can
withstand a lot more heat than it.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Right, and so so annealed glass, that's what we would
just what everybody knows is standard glass, right, the annealed
process and then the tempering process. Tempered glass is actually
produced at a much higher heat temperature while it's being produced.
So that's why it can resist higher temperatures. And the
reason that's important is very much simply this annealed glass.
(16:23):
It's not like anneal glass just gives up on you, right,
It can actually hold up to a lot of temperature
if the temperature that the anneal glass is subjected to
is even on both sides of the glass. And that's
the key, and that's what doesn't happen with your house.
So the fire approaches your home and it's produced in
temperatures of one thousand plus degrees outside, and of course
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you know your lovely air conditioned home, it's about seventy
two degrees on the inside. So the annealed glass wants
to expand on one side, it doesn't get to expand
on the other, and it shatters. And as soon as
it shatters, now there's a hole in your house, and
now the flames have a way of getting inside. And
that's basically what This comes down to the tempered glass
holds up. It's strong enough to hold up to the
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temperature differential outside to inside it. Therefore it doesn't shatter. Therefore,
even when the flames are outside your house, you don't
have a brand new hole cut in the house that
the flames can actually because once the flames get inside
your house, that's when your house is pretty much a
lost cause. That's in a wildfire situation. That's when it
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is at highest risk. So we want to keep those
those those apertures closed, and that's what the fire glass does.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
And then to your point, like when we had obviously
California had a bunch of fires recently and some of
the houses we've gone to are still standing. And you
go and we check and got it. It's called a bug.
It's got a tempered bug on it. And that window
and this house right next to it didn't right. And
you know, we can't say that's one hundred percent of
the time, but a lot of times that tempered glass
does make a big difference.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And by the way, all sliding glass doors are tempered
glass because they have to be every in California in
just a general building code. Any glass that is closer
than eighteen inches to the floor, eighteen inches above the
floor or closer. That glass has to be tempered because
it's what the code considers to be in the kick
zone where people can kick it and they don't want
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that glass to break, So that inner panel is tempered.
On sliding glass doors and windows that get set low.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
So the windows that are lower, both panes of glass
are tempered. Right, you don't need fire tempering because they're
both already tempered. So fire tempering is just a code
that we use, or just a term we use. Then
when we're going to take your standard window that's not
required by safety, no kicking or nothing, we just do
that just because it's on a fire zone, right.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
And then upgrade it.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
And a lot of homes, a lot of the minimum
requirement these days in southern California is if you're facing
an open space, then the windows that face the open
space have have got to be fire rated, even though
it's the best idea, I think, just to fire rate
the whole house if you're subjected to it, so that
all pens. You have to check with your local municipality
and find out what they're requiring from you.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
When it comes to that.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
All right, let's talk about acoustic windows, okay, or the
the the you know as I like to call misnamed
soundproof windows.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yeah, we we hate that, we because people call us
all the time. Can you get I want those soundproof windows?
Will there are nothing soundproof but in the window and
when we'll window the world. But there is definitely an
acoustic advantage at some of the windows. And it's basically
a window that has offset glass. So offset glass is
one B one paint of the glasses thicker or thinner
than the other pane of glass, and it prevents the
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decipel the sound waves from coming into that glass easier.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
So like I always sort of relate it to like a.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Drummer that he uses drums and they might have two
remo heads on their drums that they're the same axac head.
So it's going to give you more sound coming through
that drum versus if they had offsets drum heads, they
would actually be less sound coming through.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
That, right, Because and we talk about so I do
a soundproofing show at least once a year, and so
everybody who's a regular listener should know that I've said
again and again sound proofing like what we're sitting here
in this studio is a layered process. It takes layers
and layers in different There is no silver bullet material
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or one element that can be done. It's got to
be a little of this and a little of that,
on top of this and on top of that. But
the goal is always this sound is an energy wave,
and so anything that disrupts the resonant transfer of energy
through a solid medium is going to be an acoustic
reduction thing. So, for instance, a single Paine old style window,
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which a lot of homes still have them, It's just
one pane of glass, and so sound comes right through it, right, Sound,
a wave hits that one side, it gets translated to
the other and comes right into the house, right, the
vibration of that glass dual glazed. Just getting new windows,
even if they're not even is a significant indecibel reduction,
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I mean quieting down a house in a huge way
versus single pain. But on top of that, there are
acoustic windows which uses this this technique of offset glass
to quiet down even more. They won't be sound proof, nope, okay,
but the reduction in noise is significant.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
And then when they talk about it like you're talking
about your single Paine glass. When they talked about percentages
the STC levels of something sound reduction glasses glass, you'll
be three four hundred, five hundred percent better than you
what you had before.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
And it's gigantic numbers. It's not.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
It's because it's you know, all you would have to
do is go from one point to another point to
be one hundred percent and just go.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
About five points. So it is. It is significant.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I've been in places where you can put a radio
on the outside of the house before we replace the window.
We actually did this for some media stuff. Put it
before we replace the window, and the old you can
hear it perfectly. After we're done, same radio, same volume, everything,
can't hear it.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, amazing stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
All right, We've still got more for you your Home
with Dean Sharp, the else whisper.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI a M six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Helping you take your home to the next level as
we always do. Here we are nearing the end of
another three hours together. Can you believe it? Here on
this Labor Day weekend, I hope that it has been
informative and entertaining for you. We've been sitting here with
my very special in studio guest, Chris Perez, President of
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American Vision Windows.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Chris.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Before I go on, I gotta let you say your
due about it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
So you guys are celebrating twenty five years and the
grand reopening of the Semi Valley Showroom, which is HQ.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Isn't it? Yeah? Is HQ. That's the first.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So you got we got something going on this coming Saturday,
Saturday the sixth.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
From eleven to three o'clock. We're having food trucks and everything.
Just come over come to our new showroom. We've we've
updated a lot of things. We have a lot of
fun stuff in there for you to see, and we're
gonna have some jumpies.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
For the kids.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
We've got cornhole tournament with professional corn all kinds of
stuff going on over there.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It's gonna be fun, awesome, And some of you guys
are gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Too, and some some of us schleps from the station
here are going to actually.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Uh. Tim Conway is going to be on Conway.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Gary Hoffins is going to be out there, and I'm
going to be out there hanging out and I might
even do a little Q and A for people.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You know, that would be pretty fun if there's an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Yeah, you're gonna Actually, the funny thing is you're gonna
be able to go with through our room and you
might even have people ask your questions because you'll you'll
be able to answer because we have a full construction
wall that shows every part of the construction from lath
to scratch to your point brown. And we have it
from from a retrofit window to a full on new
fin windows.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
So maybe maybe I'll just give tours. That's what I'll
just do tours. I'll do tours. I will let Gary
and Tim be their entertaining selves and I will just
do my damn job and show people how to put
windows in their house, because you know that's you know,
every I was excited. We're gonna stay in my wheelhouse.
That's all I'm saying. We're excited to have you help
on this. It's going to be great. So that's going
to be this coming sets coming Saturday the sixth at
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the Semi Valley Show where everybody should get out and
check it out and we'll have a good time and
hugs for everyone. For me, at least, I don't know
about Tim, but for me, you can come get a
hug from me. All right, before we're done today. What
we haven't really talked about, I don't know we're gonna
I'm gonna have a lot of time to talk about grids.
But I did want to talk about the various materials
(24:26):
that windows are made in these days. And you know,
kind of we've got vinyl, what eighty percent of the
windows that you guys probably sell something close to that vinyl,
you know, which is a great material we were talking
about sound transmission. Of all the of all the materials,
vinyl is probably the most naturally sound deadening because it's
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a terrible conductor of energy, right, correct, And if you're
wondering what that, you know, just remember sound is energy, Okay,
Heat is also energy, right, It's all energy. So if
you can imagine a material that if we hooked up
an electric wire two and you've got a shock from
that's a really good conductor of energy. And it also
turns out those are the worst offenders when it comes
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to transmitting heat inside the house from the outside or
sound inside unless they are and I'm not pooh pooing,
by the way, aluminum windows or metal windows, but they
have to be what we call, you know, the the
bridge has to be broken from the outside thermally broken windows,
which means that the outside frame is not actually positively
(25:30):
connected to the inside frame and so that energy gets
dissipated as it tries to get inside. Right, But it's
important because there are non thermally broken windows out there.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Well, that's the thing that even with the windows you're
talking about the vinyl, there's a lot of chambers in
vinyl to first for rigidity, and that what actually prevents
hate from going through too, as well as sound. So
a lot of those things that these windows are made
for are actually helping all of the all the processes
that we need, which is are sound and are heat
control exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
So fiberglass windows fantastic, now, right, They're strong, they're rigid.
It's a stronger material than vinyl, natural material, so they
can be smaller in size and edging vinyl it can
get a little clunky sometimes, especially on a smaller window,
but just because vinyl is a soft material, and so
you have to have more structure of the vinyl, Yeah,
a thicker frame to hold it up. But you still
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sell wood windows, wood clad windows.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah, wood cloud is very popular. We do. We do
a bunch of wood cloud. Actually, as we do more
and more homes. If you ever go to our website,
there's a pen drop that shows all the homes we've
done in California and it's just all red.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
But as we start doing more homes, people starting wanting
more products. So we started doing wood cloud several years ago.
We've always done it, but started specialize in it now.
We have special teams because we don't use I think
I said before, we don't use our subcontractors. We have
all employees or installers are all employees, and we have
teams that are wood Cloud employee installers and teams that
are Vinyl installers.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I think of woodcloud windows as kind of the penultimate,
you know, the expression of the classic window in the
twenty first century. And it gives you that luck because
wood clad window on the outside is clad in like
a metal cladding, right, and so it's weather proofed on
the outside. But on the inside, the wood is exposed
and so we can stain it, we can paint it,
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we can do whatever we want. So we've got wood
inside where it counts, and cladding on the outside for
weatherproofing where that counts as well.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
And like you said about grids, you know the lights
of glass that used to be actually separated by the grids.
Now you can put the interior grids on exterior grids
so you can get the look.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
You know, I'm an opacity in a home.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Any of these homes that have that really rich old look,
we can update their windows with energy fission product and
make it look just as like it did before.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
All right, So I'm going to let the designer out
of the box just one more time and just leave
this one thing for people. In our conversation today, Chris
has mentioned it a couple of times. I'm going to
underscore it. When you're have in your windows changed out,
it is an opportunity. It's not just about okay, we've
got to get my windows changed out because these old
ones are crappy and want new, more energy efficient windows.
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That's all great, okay, But when you have your windows
change out, you have a momentous opportunity, an opportunity perhaps
to change the configuration of the window. Maybe you change
the style of the window. Maybe you've got a sliding
window right now and it could be converted in the
new one could be a crank out casement window, one
that is hinges out. Maybe you can put in a
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double hum or a single hung window, one that where
the sash moves vertically up and down right, the classic
old style window. You have so many options. You should
think it through, okay, because again, like I say, design
matters most when it comes to this and the grid patterns.
The grid patterns can make or break whether your new
windows cohere with the style and just and continue to
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tell the story of the style of your house or
fight against it. So just remember you've got all of
these choices in the window world, and companies like American
Vision are here to help you take your time, get
the right selection, and get it done well. Chris, thanks
for being on the show today.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Thanks so much. I really appreciate you. Let us come
here day.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
All right, Well, you're gonna come back because we're gonna
spend another three hours talking about all the things we
did not talk about today.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It is a deep poll, it is all right.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And for the rest of you, it's a beautiful labor
day weekend. The weather is warm but it's sunny, So
get out there and get busy building yourself a beautiful life,
and we'll see you right back here next weekend.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
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