Black-framed window in gray lap siding, white trim.

Building Products

Windows supplied for Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.

Vinyl, thermally broken aluminum and aluminum-clad wood, supplied to the job. Start with what the window has to do.

D.W. Ross supplies windows; the contractor doing the work installs them. If you don’t have an installer, we can recommend one from our list of trusted contractors.

First question

What kind of window are you looking for?

The form does most of the work: how it seals, whether it can stay open in weather, and whether anything swings into the room. All of these are available across the lines we carry.

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Double-hung

Both sashes slide up and down, and both tilt in.

The default in most American houses, and the one you can wash from inside on an upper floor.

Choose the frame material.

WindowsVinyl

Vinyl covers more ground than people expect. There is a straightforward rental-grade window, there is an upper-end one, and there is fully custom. Same material, three very different conversations. Pricing is competitive enough that customers drive in from other states for it.

For apartment turns, rental portfolios and investors renovating for resale, where the window has to be right and the number has to work.

Heavier extrusion and better hardware when the building deserves more than the base product but the budget is not open-ended.

Built to the opening rather than to a size chart, including openings in older homes where true historic windows are out of reach.

Different color outside than inside, and colors well beyond a short standard palette. We can match from a Sherwin-Williams color number. A Roycroft Red exterior with a white interior is a real example, on an older home where historic windows priced out.

Roycroft Red exteriorWhite interiorMatch from a Sherwin-Williams number

A real example: an older home where historic windows priced out.

Vinyl windows, rental-grade to fully custom Two-tone and custom-color vinyl windows

A common misconception

A sliding patio door is sold as a window.

Most people assume anything you walk through is a door. In this trade a sliding patio unit is ordered like a window, and a full-glass door that swings on hinges is a door. Transoms and sidelites are glass either way. If what you are picturing is mostly glass in a frame, it is on this page; doors that hang on hinges are on Doors.

Proof

Windows we have supplied.

Residential and commercial, in finished buildings and mid-job. Swipe through them here and tap any one to see it full size.

See them all as a grid

Project

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

See the project

Victorian house in Lakewood

Before and after.

Before: the Victorian's street front in gray shingle, the tower, gables and porch windows in old red-trimmed sash, several with lace curtains. — The street front.

After: the same street front in sage and cream, every window in a new white frame. — The street front.

Before: the house from the front corner, the corner tower's windows in old red-trimmed sash, a diamond-paned window in the gable. — From the front corner.

After: the house from the front corner, the tower and side windows in new white frames, a man on a stepladder at a side window. — From the front corner.

Before: the rear of the house in gray clapboard, a sagging back porch held up by timber props, the old windows above it. — The back of the house, from the corner.

After: the rear of the house in sage siding, the propped porch gone, new white-framed windows on every floor. — The back of the house, from the corner.

Before: the rear gable straight on, gray clapboard, old windows on three floors over a sagging porch. — The rear gable, straight on.

After: the rear gable straight on, sage siding, new white-framed windows on three floors, a new wooden back step. — The rear gable, straight on.

Where these windows go.

Contractors, builders and project buyers work with D.W. Ross out of 3195 West 63rd Street on Cleveland's west side. Material for Cleveland, Greater Cleveland and Northeast Ohio jobs is quoted, ordered and picked up or delivered from here.

Historic buildings

Custom windows and doors built to existing openings and historic profiles. The line the company is known for.

Historic aluminum windows

Contemporary systems

Current window systems for new work and modern renovations. A meaningful market that is often overlooked.

Warehouse loft conversions

Old warehouses turned into lofts: large openings, repeated units, and a look that has to hold up.

Aluminum windows for loft conversions

Renovation for resale

A budget-conscious window product built for investors renovating houses to sell.

Rental-grade vinyl windows Windows for rental properties

Related figures, projects and articles from D.W. Ross.

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