Rollingwood · West Lake Hills · Tarrytown · Lost Creek
Austin Quality Windows provides window installation in Barton Creek, TX, and is a leading Travis County specialist in architectural glass, specializing in aluminum-clad wood windows, thermally broken steel casements and fixed window walls. We offer flat-glass skylights and bi-fold door walls.
Our team provides low-reflectance, low-E glazing, delivering calm, bright rooms for homes and durable, committee-ready elevations for both residential and commercial projects. We install only what our own crew has measured, and we prepare the window specifications, the material and colour samples and the elevations your architectural committee asks for before anything is ordered.
From a flat-glass skylight kept off the street-facing slope of the roof to a full set of front, side and rear elevations for review, our team handles every detail. Serving Barton Creek, Lost Creek, Sunset Valley and West Lake Hills, we confirm which association governs your lot before we draw a thing.
Why Austin Quality Windows
No handoffs between a salesperson, a measurer and a subcontracted crew. The crew that measures your openings installs the windows.
Barton Creek is an unincorporated community in Travis County, about seven miles west of downtown Austin along Barton Creek Boulevard, with the Barton Creek Greenbelt running from Zilker Park west toward Lost Creek. No city design code sets the look of your windows here. The recorded design guidelines of the property owners' associations do that, and they are specific about glass.
We read two sets of recorded guidelines from the Barton Creek area before writing this page. Your lot may answer to one of them, to another section's rules, or to both a master and a sub-association, so the first thing we do on any Barton Creek job is confirm which document governs your address.
The amended and restated design guidelines recorded for one Barton Creek Southwest section, Amarra Drive Phase 2, list prohibited materials and name these outright:
The same section says windows shall be high quality units made of wood, metal, vinyl-clad wood or high-grade composite, and it lists skylights and roof penetrations facing the street among undesirable features.
In Barton Creek the window order waits on paperwork, and the paperwork is ours to prepare.
Under the Amarra guidelines, builders submit the window manufacturer's specifications with the final plan, and the checklist asks for window specifications on the construction documents and window material and colour on the sample board.
The Estates of Barton Creek guidelines send any exterior change to the architectural review committee, with a written estimate or contract, a completed deposit agreement, and plans showing every material exterior element and colour on each elevation.
Because the guidelines name the materials, the product conversation in Barton Creek starts from what the committee will accept.
A ban on mirrored glass closes off the easy answer to Texas sun, a reflective coating that bounces heat off the house. The answer that passes review lives inside the insulated unit instead.
Travis County is Climate Zone 2 in the energy code guide for Texas homes. There the limits are a fenestration U-factor of 0.40 and a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.25 for glazed openings, the table covers alterations as well as new houses, and the ratings must come from an NFRC label on each unit. A low-E coating keeps heat on the side of the glass it came from while visible light passes, so a solar-control soft-coat sealed inside a dual or triple pane unit with argon fill can meet that heat gain ceiling without the mirror look.
Laminated glass adds sound and ultraviolet control on a wide west-facing wall, and tempered or laminated safety glazing goes where the code requires it, near doorways and in large panes. Each lite's makeup is shown on the specification the committee sees, so there is no surprise between approval and install.
We do not publish prices. These are the variables that set the number on a Barton Creek house, and each is settled at the free in-home measure.
It all ends at the free measure, and the written quote names the glass, the frame and the finish line by line.
The crew that installs your windows measures them first, opening by opening, and notes which walls take afternoon sun and which face the street. Then we confirm the governing association and read its current guidelines, because rules and forms change.
Because a committee reviews the window itself, we specify the frame, the finish, the glass makeup and any divided-lite pattern in writing before a quote is final, and the colour you approve is the colour we order. For a new wall of glass facing the greenbelt or a door wall cut into a rear elevation, the committee needs drawings, not a brochure, so we produce the front, side and rear elevations, the written estimate and the specification it reads, and we build exactly what it approves.
You approve the specification, the samples and the elevations. We assemble the package the committee asks for, and nothing is ordered until the approval is in hand. Where Travis County or another authority also needs a permit, that is identified at the same time.
On install day each old unit comes out, the new one goes in over a sill pan with flashing to the manufacturer's written instructions, and every opening is water-tested before the trim goes back on. The job closes with a written warranty.
The process
Four steps, and nothing is ordered until you have signed off on the drawings and the price.
We measure every opening, check the framing and the header, and talk through glass, frame material and how each window should operate.
You get drawings of every unit for your approval and for any HOA or historic review, with one written price.
Units are ordered to the approved sizes and glass package, and checked against the drawings when they arrive.
Old units out, openings flashed, new units set, sealed and water tested, then trim and cleanup.
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Questions
Almost certainly. The recorded guidelines we read require committee review of exterior changes and of window specifications, material and colour. We confirm which association governs your lot and prepare the submittal.
Not where mirrored glass is prohibited, as it is in the guidelines we read. A solar-control low-E coating inside an insulated unit does the job without the mirror finish.
Not under the Amarra Drive Phase 2 guidelines, which prohibit them. Where you want a divided-lite look we specify true divided lites or simulated divided lites with bars on the glass.
The glass package, frame material and finish, the size and number of openings, divided lites, header work, access, association review and trim repair. The written quote after the free measure prices each one.
Usually, in flat glass. White or bubble skylights are prohibited in the guidelines we read, and skylights facing the street are listed as undesirable, so we place it on a roof plane away from the street.
It depends on the manufacturer, the glass and how long committee review takes. We give you the date in writing with the quote, and nothing is ordered until the approval is in.
Yes, across the Barton Creek area and in Lost Creek, Sunset Valley and West Lake Hills nearby. Each section may have its own association rules, and we check yours first.
The installing crew measures every opening, checks framing and sills, and walks you through frames, glass and finishes the committee will accept. You get a written quote and a written warranty, and approval comes before any order.
Free in-home measure across Austin and the west side. We call you back to set a time.
Calls only, we do not receive text messages.
