Window and door projects, from historic buildings to a warehouse.
Controlled-environment work, historic window projects, and one house that shows what the rest of this site splits into product pages.
Primarily Ohio, national when the project warrants it. roughly half residential, half commercial.
Panels, doors and the rooms they make.
Work we can name.
Fat Head's
Brewery
Great Lakes Brewing
Brewery
Heritage Beverage
Coors distributor
Craig, Alaska
Fishery co-op project
Other cold-storage customers stay unnamed. Referrals on request.
Named projects.
Cleveland Archives building
Historic custom windows and doors
Cleveland, Ohio · State historical preservation project
Warehouse on Detroit Road at W. 28th
Thermally broken aluminum windows with low-E, argon-filled glass and applied grids matching the original warehouse windows, supplied
Cleveland, Ohio · Warehouse window replacement
Shred cheese room
Insulated wall and ceiling panels for the shred room at a cheese manufacturer, a room the customer keeps cooled
Cooled shred room, cheese manufacturing
Victorian house in Lakewood
Replacement windows in white frames for a three-story Victorian house, from the corner tower and the gables down to the porch, supplied
Lakewood, Ohio · Residential window replacement
Several systems, one customer, one long conversation.
Most of this site is organized by product, which is a reasonable way to find a window and a poor way to understand what D.W. Ross does. This is one house. The company was in several different parts of it, and the piece the customer talks about is the one nobody could have ordered.
Windows
Supplied through the same conversation as everything else, rather than bid separately against a spec sheet somebody else wrote.
Doors
Including the one below, which was designed for this opening and did not previously exist.
Flooring
The same job as the flooring story on this site: the customer's first choice was not the floor he ended up wanting.
Details that are not a product
The parts of a house that get solved rather than ordered: a run of trim, a transition, an opening that is the wrong shape. They do not appear on an invoice as anything, and they are most of the reason a job goes well.
A twelve-foot door that started as a cheaper idea.
The customer wanted a folding door across the back of the house. Those are expensive. So we worked out a four-panel biparting unit instead: twelve feet wide, and the two center panels slide outward from the middle, which leaves approximately six feet of clear opening in the middle of the wall.
He liked it enough to put in a second one. That is roughly twenty-four feet of glass across the back of the house, in two units that were drawn for it, and it began as the answer to a price, not to a catalog.
Where is your project at?
Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM. 3195 West 63rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44102.