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Fast, Reliable Custom Windows & Doors Across Austin
Custom window and door work in Austin typically runs $850-$4,600 per opening depending on size, glass package, and frame material, and most replacement projects we quote are installed within two to four weeks of permit approval. If you’re in Travis Heights, Hyde Park, Allandale, or anywhere along the I-35 corridor, we’re the local crew that shows up with a 4-foot level and checks the rough opening before we ever talk glass. Our Austin office coordinates dispatch and scheduling for every job, so when you call (888) 635-0804, you get a live person who knows the difference between a 78704 pier-and-beam bungalow and a 78702 slab-on-grade spec home. We’ve been doing this long enough to know that in Austin, the window is rarely the whole problem. The clay is always part of the conversation.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Austin’s Preferred Custom Windows & Doors Company
TruePane Windows & Doors is led by Dale Kessler, a second-generation glazier who founded this company on a rule he keeps on the whiteboard: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That’s not marketing. That’s the standard every one of our background-checked, uniformed technicians carries into every Austin home, from Crestview to Mueller to Circle C. We measure every opening twice, quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper, and register both warranty layers before the truck leaves your driveway. The Done Right Promise means if something isn’t right, we make it right. No paperwork fights, no arguing about who’s responsible. That’s The Keystone Standard, and it applies to every job we do in Austin.
Our reputation in Austin is built on showing up when we say we will and doing the work so it holds through one of the most thermally violent climates in the continental US. Homeowners who’ve lived in their Austin house for twenty or thirty years tend to remember the contractor who left them with a fogged seal and a door that binds in July. We don’t want to be that story. We want to be the company you call in 2045 because we’re still answering the phone.
Our Custom Windows & Doors Services in Austin
When standard sizes won’t work, that’s when our Custom Windows & Doors team does what we’re built for. Austin’s older housing stock – 1930s through 1960s bungalows, craftsman cottages, and the occasional mid-century rancher – rarely presents a square, true rough opening. We build and order glass to the actual opening, not to what the blueprint says it should be.
Custom Shape Windows
Arches, circles, eyebrow transoms, angled bays, and geometric combos that make a standard window salesman blink. In Austin, custom shape windows show up most often on historic homes in Hyde Park and Old West Austin, where the opening was built by hand with a specific curve or angle that doesn’t match any off-the-shelf unit. We template the opening, order the glass to fit, and install with the same true-level standard we apply to a rectangular sash. A custom-shaped window that’s set out of true will bind on the first thermal cycle. We don’t let that happen.

Commercial Storefront Glazing
For Austin storefronts along Burnet Road, South Congress, and the east side, we replace and upgrade commercial glazing with an eye toward the thermal loading Austin buildings actually carry. A west-facing storefront in July takes UV and heat gain that breaks poor seals fast. We quote low-E and tint options side by side with the clear glass so the building owner sees the real energy cost difference before ordering. Tempered, laminated, or impact-rated – we pull the permit, do the install, and pass the inspection.

Curtain Wall Systems
Large commercial and mixed-use curtain wall work in Austin is a different discipline from residential window replacement, and we treat it that way. The thermal expansion on a 40-foot west-facing glass wall in an Austin August is measurable – aluminum mullions move. We specify and install curtain wall systems with the expansion joints and thermal breaks appropriate to our climate, not a generic spec copied from a mild-climate installation manual. For low-rise commercial buildings in and around the Domain and the Mueller development, we handle the glazing, the structural anchorage, and the water management details that keep a curtain wall from becoming a leak liability after the first big rain.

Architectural Grilles & SDLs
Simulated divided lites and architectural grilles matter in Austin more than in most markets because of the historic districts. Hyde Park, Old West Austin, and parts of Travis Heights have local review boards that care very much about divided-light pattern accuracy – not the width of the muntin on your Marvin, but whether the pattern reads as true to the original 1935 sash it’s replacing. We match existing grille profiles and SDL bar widths against the sample, in front of the homeowner, before the order is ever placed. If you’ve got an original 1940s divided-light window that’s beyond repair, we replicate the pattern rather than dropping in a modern grid that looks close enough. Close enough doesn’t pass a Hyde Park review board.

What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Austin
We’re an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, and we service all of them -, PGT, CGI, and ES Windows. For Austin homeowners specifically, we often quote CGI and ES Windows on impact-rated work, CWS for large-format or custom openings, and ECO Window Systems when the budget is tight but the opening is odd. Because we stock common glass sizes and seal systems for these lines locally, a service call or glass replacement in Austin doesn’t mean waiting three weeks on a freight truck. Call us to talk through which line fits your opening and your historic-district constraints.
Common Custom Windows & Doors Problems We See in Austin Homes
- Seal failure from 100°F thermal swings. Winter Storm Uri drove Austin to single digits in February 2021. That same July, we were over 100°F. That range destroys IGU seals on builder-grade vinyl from the 2010s and 2020s infill boom. Glass fogs, argon fill dies, and the window becomes a single pane with plastic around it. We see this constantly in 78702 and south Austin spec homes.
- Foundation-driven frame distortion on blackland clay. Austin’s eastern and central corridors sit on expansive clay that shrinks during drought and swells after rain. Pier-and-beam corners drop an inch or two, but the door header might be racked an inch and a half out of level. A new pre-hung door installed without addressing that will drag on the slab within a season. We check this on every estimate.
- Historic-overlay permit triggers. In Hyde Park and Old West Austin, opening up a wall for custom window work triggers city-mandated reviews that often require code upgrades to wiring, framing, or waterproofing that were original to the 1930s or 1960s cottage. This is not a surprise fee we spring on you. It’s a line item we put in the contract upfront.
- Oversized glass panels with no thermal-appropriate specification. Austin’s west- and south-facing elevations take brutal solar heat gain. A big fixed glass panel on a west wall without proper Low-E and SHGC matching turns that room into an oven from May through October. We specify glass packages for the orientation. That’s not a detail to skip.
Pricing for Custom Windows & Doors in Austin, TX
Here’s what we see in the Austin market in 2026. Standard-sized custom replacement windows with a mid-range vinyl or wood frame run about $850-$1,800 per unit installed. Custom shape windows – arches, angles, eyebrow transoms – land between $2,300 and $4,600 per opening depending on the complexity of the curve and the glass package. Architectural grilles and SDL pattern matching add $180-$420 per window depending on the bar width and profile accuracy required. Oversized glass panels, which Austin’s modern builds love, run $1,900-$5,700 installed based on size, Low-E package, and whether the installation requires a crane. A full-service door replacement with a pre-hung unit, new threshold, and shimming on a racked frame typically lands between $1,400 and $3,200. These are ranges, not promises. Your quote is free, it’s in writing, and the number we quote is the number on the bill. Call (888) 635-0804 to schedule a free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Austin
We run crews through Pflugerville, Del Valle, McNeil, and the State Board of Insurance district regularly. If you’re in the greater Austin metro and your opening is out of square, we’ll come measure it. Our scheduling is coordinated from our Austin office, so one call covers the whole area.
Serving Austin, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Austin area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Custom Windows & Doors in Austin
Yes, in 78704 and most of central Austin, that’s nearly a given. The blackland clay under that part of town expands and contracts through drought and rain cycles, and pier-and-beam foundations move with it. By the time floors slope enough to notice, window rough openings are typically racked anywhere from a half inch to two inches out of square. We measure first, then we tell you what the opening actually is, then we quote the custom window to fit that opening – with or without correcting the frame. Call (888) 635-0804 for a measurement appointment.
Yes, and that’s exactly the kind of job that keeps us busy in Hyde Park. We’ve matched original divided-light and SDL patterns on dozens of Austin historic-district homes. We bring manufacturer samples to the house, match the muntin width and profile against your existing sashes in front of you, and document the match for the review board submission. Call (888) 635-0804 and tell us you’re in a historic district – we’ll schedule a measure and walk you through what the board typically asks for.
Because the seal between the glass panes has failed, and in Austin that’s premature but not surprising. A 2018 spec home in 78702 has now been through six or seven years of 100°F-plus summers and at least one winter that hit single digits. Builder-grade vinyl windows are built to a price, and the seal designs don’t hold against Austin’s thermal range. When you see fog between the panes, the argon or krypton fill is gone and the insulating value is gone with it. We replace the glass or the entire unit depending on the frame condition. Call (888) 635-0804 to have us look at it.
In 78703, that’s the foundation expressing itself through the door. The clay under that ZIP swells with winter and spring moisture, lifts the slab slightly, and then shrinks through the summer drought cycle, letting the slab settle. The net effect over a decade is a garage or mudroom slab edge that’s no longer level within its own footprint. The door is the visible symptom. We’ll shim and re-hang the pre-hung unit to level – and tell you plainly whether the foundation condition is something you should have a foundation company look at before you spend money on a door that’ll just re-rack. Call (888) 635-0804 for a straight assessment.
Here’s exactly how we handle it. The first thing every Austin remodel or replacement quote from us includes is a line item for permitted code upgrades, written as a stated allowance rather than an open-ended cost. When we open the wall on a 1960s 78705 cottage and find aluminum wiring that has to be brought up to code, or a header that’s undersized for the new opening, the inspector’s required scope isn’t a surprise to us and it won’t be a surprise on your bill. The change order gets written out, priced, and you approve it in writing before we buy anything or do any additional work. That’s the inspection-first, written-allowance process. Call (888) 635-0804 and we’ll walk you through a sample contract before we ever schedule the first inspection.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors. Serving Austin since our founding, with the same rule on the whiteboard: if the pane is not true, the job is not done.



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