Savannah Window Co provides professional bay and bow windows in Savannah, GA for residential and commercial properties across the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins. This is the page where we most argue against the sale. A bay or a bow is a lovely thing and an expensive decision in Savannah, and the expense is not mostly in the window. It is in what the window does to your wall and to your file.
Start with what these are. A bay projects on three planes, usually a fixed center lite flanked by two operable units set at thirty or forty-five degrees. A bow sweeps a shallow arc made up of four to six matched lites. Both push out beyond the face of the building, so both need a floor beneath them, a small roof above them and structural support at the sides.
That is construction, not glazing. The header over the opening has to be resized for the wider span. The projecting floor needs framing, insulating and a finished soffit. The little roof needs proper flashing back into the wall, and it is a leak waiting to happen if somebody treats it as trim. On a masonry wall the whole thing needs a support ledger or cables into the framing.
All of which means a change in size, and a change in size means a building permit. The permit carries a declared value, and that value joins a running total kept over five years and measured against half the appraised value of your structure. On a house built before the first flood map, sitting under the base flood elevation, that total is the thing that can force the entire building up onto piers.
So we ask a question before we quote. Is this house pre-map and low? If it is, a bay is a poor use of headroom you may want later for a kitchen or a bathroom, and we will say so directly rather than take the order and let you find out from a floodplain manager two years afterward.
There is a second issue on the projecting floor itself. A bay hanging over a crawl space is a piece of conditioned floor sitting outside the main envelope, and if it is inside a mapped hazard area it is also a piece of floor below whatever elevation applies. Insulate it properly, ventilate the cavity, and understand it will always be the coldest spot in the room.
Where we build them happily is on the newer stock. In Pooler, Richmond Hill or Georgetown, on ground outside the mapped areas and on a house built to a modern code, a bay is straightforward carpentry with a nice result. We frame it, flash it, insulate the seat and finish the interior, and nobody is consulting a flood map about any of it.
And there is a middle path worth knowing. A garden window over a kitchen sink projects only a few inches and often needs no structural change at all. If what you actually want is light and a place for plants rather than a seat, that is a fraction of the cost and none of the consequence.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — pultruded fiberglass frames ordered to the measured opening, insert sash packs fitted inside an existing jamb, sill pans with end dams and a sloped back leg, flood-damage-resistant frame materials under FEMA Technical Bulletin 2, laminated impact glazing over a 0.090-inch interlayer, warm-edge spacers in argon-filled insulating glass units — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Savannah and nearby communities including Pooler, Garden City, Port Wentworth, Thunderbolt.
What We Handle
Everything our bay and bow windows in Savannah covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of bay and bow windows work in Savannah, GA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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- bay window seat construction
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- bay window insulation floor
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Savannah services.
Materials, equipment and how we do bay and bow windows
The difference between bay and bow windows that lasts and bay and bow windows that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with pultruded fiberglass frames ordered to the measured opening, insert sash packs fitted inside an existing jamb, sill pans with end dams and a sloped back leg, flood-damage-resistant frame materials under FEMA Technical Bulletin 2, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Savannah job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of window work in the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do bay and bow windows outside Savannah
Savannah Window Co covers Savannah and the surrounding communities of the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Bay and Bow Windows in Pooler, GA — Chatham County, population 25,711
- Bay and Bow Windows in Garden City, GA — Chatham County, population 10,289
- Bay and Bow Windows in Port Wentworth, GA — Chatham County, population 10,878
- Bay and Bow Windows in Thunderbolt, GA — Chatham County, population 2,556
- Bay and Bow Windows in Tybee Island, GA — Chatham County, population 3,114
- Bay and Bow Windows in Wilmington Island, GA — Chatham County, population 15,129
Start on the Savannah Window Co homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Savannah Chooses Savannah Window Co
- ✓We look up your flood zone, base flood elevation and pre-map status before a tape measure comes out, and put the answer in the quote
- ✓Openings that need a permit are priced in a separate column, with the valuation we would declare shown next to them
- ✓Every unit is ordered to the measured opening rather than trimmed or packed out to suit a stock size on a shelf
- ✓Sill pans with end dams on every installation, including the ones where nobody would ever see whether we fitted one
The standards behind bay and bow windows
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The bay and bow windows work we do in Savannah follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every bay and bow windows project in Savannah gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free bay and bow windows free estimate in Savannah, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.