Savannah Window Co provides professional impact and hurricane windows in Savannah, GA for residential and commercial properties across the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins. This is the one page here that tells you to take the permit when one is warranted, and to spend the money. Impact glazing is a real product doing a real job on this coast. It is also sold to a great many people who do not need it.
The construction is two lites of glass bonded permanently to a plastic interlayer, most commonly a polyvinyl butyral sheet around ninety thousandths of an inch thick. Struck hard enough, the glass breaks and stays stuck to the interlayer. The opening is not breached, which is the entire point, because a breached opening pressurizes a house and lifts a roof from inside.
What you are buying is tested performance, not a description. Assemblies are rated to a design pressure and to a missile impact standard, and the rating belongs to the whole unit, glass, frame and anchorage together. A laminated lite dropped into an untested frame is not an impact window. Ask for the label and the anchoring schedule, and expect the installer to follow it exactly.
The good news for Savannah is that none of this requires a bigger hole. Impact units are built to order, so the rating arrives inside a unit made to the opening you already have. No change in size, no permit, and nothing added to the cumulative improvement total that governs older buildings inside the mapped hazard areas.
Where it earns the money is exposure. On Tybee, on the marsh-facing elevations out at Whitemarsh and Isle of Hope, and on anything standing in open ground near the water, wind-borne debris is the peril and this is the product for it. Elevated houses out there also tend to have their glazing high, where pressures are worst.
Where it does not earn the money is inland and sheltered. On a ranch in Georgetown or a subdivision house in Pooler, surrounded by other houses and mature canopy, tested storm panels or accordion shutters give the same opening protection for a fraction of the price. That is not a lesser choice, it is the proportionate one, and we will quote it that way.
One correction we make constantly, and it matters more here than the debris question. Impact glazing does nothing whatsoever about water rising from below. It is a wind product. The flooding that damages the most homes in this county comes up through the floor, not in through the glass, and no window sold anywhere addresses that. Anyone implying otherwise is selling badly.
The side benefits are genuine, though, and worth counting when you are deciding. Laminated glass cuts ultraviolet transmission sharply, which protects floors and furniture through a long southern summer. It also blocks noise considerably better than a standard unit, and it is markedly harder to break through from outside, which some owners value more than the storm rating itself.
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 impact and hurricane windows in Savannah covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of impact and hurricane 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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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 impact and hurricane windows
The difference between impact and hurricane windows that lasts and impact and hurricane 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 impact and hurricane 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.
- Impact and Hurricane Windows in Pooler, GA — Chatham County, population 25,711
- Impact and Hurricane Windows in Garden City, GA — Chatham County, population 10,289
- Impact and Hurricane Windows in Port Wentworth, GA — Chatham County, population 10,878
- Impact and Hurricane Windows in Thunderbolt, GA — Chatham County, population 2,556
- Impact and Hurricane Windows in Tybee Island, GA — Chatham County, population 3,114
- Impact and Hurricane 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 impact and hurricane windows
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The impact and hurricane 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 impact and hurricane 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 impact and hurricane windows free estimate in Savannah, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.