Barton Creek · West Lake Hills · Tarrytown · Lost Creek
Austin Quality Windows handles window installation in Rollingwood, TX, as a trusted Travis County specialist in premium openings, specializing in steel windows, aluminum-clad wood casements and floor-to-ceiling window walls. We offer multi-slide door walls and flat-glass skylights.
Our team provides low-E insulated glazing packages, delivering quiet, cooler rooms for homes and clean, low-glare elevations for both residential and commercial projects. The same crew that measures each opening installs it, working from elevations you sign off on and flashing every sill to the manufacturer's written instructions.
From the mailed notice to every owner within 250 feet that exterior work requires to the final water test on a new glass wall, our team handles every detail. Serving Rollingwood, West Lake Hills and Tarrytown, we check each job against the city's current rules at quote time.
Why Austin Quality Windows
No handoffs between a salesperson, a measurer and a subcontracted crew. The crew that measures your openings installs the windows.
Rollingwood is a small city, 0.7 square miles, three miles west of downtown Austin, incorporated in 1963 and running its own permits. For a window or glass job, two of its published rules matter more than anything else, and we plan every project around both.
The city's construction FAQ says swapping windows needs a city permit, listed under residential remodel work, while replacing an existing door does not. In a mixed project, every window still goes through the city.
Any exterior work triggers the notice-of-application rule: you mail notice to every property owner within 250 feet, the mailed review period runs 18 days, and plans go to review only after it ends.
Every job on this site is a project, not a repair: a room, an elevation or a whole house of openings, specified and installed by one crew.
Each of these is measured, ordered and installed by us. We do not sell a unit and leave the opening to someone else.
Travis County sits in Climate Zone 2 under the energy code guide for Texas homes, and the window limits in that table apply to windows changed in an existing house and to alterations, not only to new construction: a fenestration U-factor of 0.40 and a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.25 for glazed openings. The numbers have to come from an NFRC label on the unit. A unit without one is assigned default values, which is a problem you do not want at inspection.
For a large west or south facing opening, the 0.25 heat gain ceiling is met in the glass, not the frame. That means a low-E coating chosen for solar control, an insulated unit with a gas-filled space, and on a wide wall of glass often laminated glass for sound and ultraviolet control. Where glass sits in a door, near a doorway or in a large pane, tempered or laminated safety glazing is the code's call, and it is marked on the drawings before anything is ordered.
The state floor for a house is the 2015 energy chapter, and a city may adopt a newer one. We confirm which edition Rollingwood's plan review is using at quote time rather than assume it.
We publish no prices. Each Rollingwood house asks for its own mix of openings, and these are the variables that set the number, each one settled at the free measure.
It all ends at the free in-home measure, where we look at each opening and give you a written quote with the glass package and frame named line by line.
It starts in the house. The crew that will install your windows measures every opening, checks the framing and the sill, and notes which walls face the afternoon sun.
The schedule for a Rollingwood glass wall, a new door wall opening or an enlarged window starts with the neighbour notice, not with the order. The city hands you the forms, and a notice done wrong can mean doing it again, so we tell you at the measure whether your scope counts as exterior work and build the notice period into the date we give you. The permit split matters too: a like-for-like entry door can go in without paperwork, while every window in the same house goes through the city.
Next come elevations and a specification for your approval: frame, profile, glass makeup, finish and hardware. If the scope is exterior work, the neighbour notice goes out at this point, so its 18 days run while the drawings are being finalized. The permit application follows with the approved drawings.
Nothing is ordered until you sign off. On install day we remove each old unit, set the new one with a sill pan and flashing to the manufacturer's written instructions, and water-test the opening before the trim goes back on. The inspection is booked with the city, and 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.
Questions
Yes. The city's construction FAQ says window swaps need a permit, while replacing an existing door does not. We prepare the drawings the application needs and tell you at the measure what the city will ask for.
Rollingwood requires notice of application for any exterior work. Owners within 250 feet are notified by mail, the review period runs 18 days, and plans are not reviewed until it ends. We build that into the schedule.
The glass package, frame material, the size and number of openings, any header work for a wider opening, access, removal and trim repair, and the permit and notice steps. The written quote after the free measure names each one.
It depends on the manufacturer and the glass, and on how long the city's notice and review take. We give you the date in writing with the quote.
An insulated unit with a solar-control low-E coating, labeled at or under the 0.25 heat gain limit that applies in Travis County, and laminated glass where you want sound or ultraviolet control as well.
Each opening is removed and closed the same visit wherever the size allows, so rooms are not left exposed overnight. A wide door wall that needs header work is phased, and the plan is in the quote.
If the frames are sound, restoration can make sense and we will say so. If the units leak, fog between the panes or no longer meet the heat gain limit you want, new units are usually the better spend.
Yes. Rollingwood sits three miles west of downtown Austin, and we work there and in West Lake Hills and Tarrytown next door. Each place has its own permit office or review rules, so the quote names the one your house answers to.
The installing crew measures each opening, checks framing and sills, notes sun exposure and talks through frame and glass choices. You get a written quote with a warranty in writing, and nothing is ordered until you approve the elevations.
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.
