Long Beach Elite Windows: Commercial Storefront Glazing and Residential Window Replacement Across the South Bay
Aluminum storefront and curtain wall, laminated acoustic glass for the port and the flight paths, and salt-air-rated replacement windows. Free measure across the South Bay from a licensed, insured crew.
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Long Beach Elite Windows is a licensed and insured window and glazing contractor with over 20 years of experience installing, replacing and repairing glass for residential and commercial properties in Long Beach, CA.
On the commercial side that means aluminum storefront framing in one-inch and two-inch systems, curtain wall and window wall glazing, entrance doors with closers and panic hardware, spandrel panels, tempered door lites and emergency board-up.
On the residential side it means full-frame and retrofit insert replacement windows, double-hung and single-hung sashes, casement and awning units, horizontal sliders, bay and bow assemblies, picture and architectural glass, egress windows, patio and sliding glass doors, French doors, entry doors, window screens and insulated glass unit replacement.
We work in vinyl, pultruded fiberglass, composite, thermally broken aluminum and clad-wood frames, glazed with dual-pane insulated units, soft-coat low-E coatings, argon fill, warm-edge spacers, laminated acoustic glass with PVB and ionoplast interlayers, tempered safety glass, and obscure or patterned privacy glass.
Every unit we quote carries an NFRC label. Coastal Los Angeles sits in a cooler California Energy Commission climate zone than the inland cities, so we size the glass package to the U-factor and solar heat gain coefficient the current Title 24 standards actually ask for here instead of copying an inland spec onto a coastal address.
Near the water we also spec against corrosion, because chloride in the air pits untreated aluminum and destroys plated hardware long before the glass gives up: marine-grade and stainless components, anodized and high-performance powder-coated finishes, non-ferrous fasteners, and vinyl and fiberglass frames that simply do not corrode.
For homes under the Long Beach Airport flight paths, along the 405 and the 710, or within earshot of the port, we build laminated acoustic packages with asymmetric lite thicknesses and widened airspaces.
Long Beach Elite Windows is licensed by the CSLB, fully insured and bonded, installs to AAMA and NAFS guidelines, and backs every job with a written workmanship warranty on top of the manufacturer glass and frame coverage. Se habla espanol, and the in-home measure is free.
Our Window Services in Long Beach, CA
Commercial Storefront & Curtain Wall
Commercial storefront glass in Long Beach runs from Pine Avenue retail to the medical corridor around Long Beach Memorial and the logistics buildings ringing the port. Every one of those jobs is engineered to a design pressure rather than picked out of a catalog.
Energy-Efficient & Low-E Windows
Energy-efficient windows in Long Beach get specified differently from the ones ten miles inland, and copying an inland glass package onto a coastal address is how people overpay for performance the marine layer already gives them. Coastal Los Angeles sits in a cooler California Energy Commission climate zone than inland Orange County, so the cooling load is milder, the Title 24 obligation on replacement fenestration is still real, and the balance between U-factor and solar heat gain shifts.
Vinyl Windows
Vinyl windows are the sensible default within a few miles of the water, because chloride does not touch them: no pitting, no corrosion, no chalky white bloom under the paint, no rust weeping down the stucco from a fastener head. They cost roughly half what fiberglass does, they never need painting, and a well-built frame holds its seal for decades.
Impact-Rated & Security Windows
Impact-rated windows in Long Beach are not about hurricanes, and any contractor selling them to you that way is padding the invoice. What laminated glass actually buys you here is forced-entry resistance at ground level, wind loading on exposed bluff-top and hilltop lots, a useful drop in port and freeway noise, and UV control.
Double-Hung & Single-Hung Windows
Double-hung windows are the ones that get painted shut, and in Rose Park, Carroll Park and California Heights that is one of the most common calls we take. A double-hung has two operating sashes in one frame, an upper and a lower, and both are supposed to move.
Patio & Sliding Glass Doors
A patio slider you have to shoulder open is the most annoying thing in the house. Near the water it is almost always a roller and track problem rather than a door problem.
Bay & Bow Windows
A bay or bow window is not really a window job, it is a small carpentry project with glass in it. On a coast that gets driven rain off the water every winter, the flashing detail decides everything.
Soundproof & Acoustic Windows
Soundproof windows in Long Beach are answering four separate noise sources at once. There is the Port of Long Beach and its truck traffic, the Long Beach Airport flight paths, the 405 and the 710, and the 22 feeding the east side.
Coastal & Salt-Air Windows
Coastal windows fail from the metal in, not the glass out, and that is the whole reason this page exists. Salt air carries chloride, chloride pits untreated aluminum, eats plated steel fasteners and destroys cheap rollers, balances and hinge arms within a few years of the water, so specifying a beachfront window is a metallurgy problem before it is a glazing problem.
Fiberglass & Composite Windows
Fiberglass windows cost roughly double what vinyl does, so the only useful question is what that premium actually buys you here. Four things justify it around Long Beach: large openings, dark exterior colors, and narrow sightlines you cannot get any other way.
Wood & Clad-Wood Windows
Wood and clad-wood windows are what the historic districts here actually need. A vinyl slider in a Bluff Park Craftsman opening will look wrong from the sidewalk for as long as you own the house.
Aluminum Windows
Aluminum windows come in two entirely different products, and confusing them costs Long Beach homeowners money in both directions. The original single-pane aluminum sliders sitting in most pre-1980 houses here are the reason the back bedroom is unpleasant and the sill is wet on a February morning.
Casement & Awning Windows
Casement windows seal tighter than anything else you can buy, because the crank pulls the sash into the weatherstrip instead of sliding past it. Awning units use the same hardware hinged at the top.
Sliding & Gliding Windows
Sliding windows are the default across Southern California tract housing. Most of the ones in this city are original, aluminum, and running on rollers that gave up years ago.
Picture & Architectural Windows
A picture window is the cheapest square footage of glass you can buy and the tightest-sealing unit in the catalog, for the same reason: nothing about it moves. No sash, no balance, no roller, no lock, no gap for air or sound to follow, and on a coastal elevation, no hardware to corrode.
Egress Windows
Egress windows are what let a room legally be a bedroom. The number that decides it is net clear opening, not the size printed on your invoice.
French Doors
French doors are the handsomest way onto a patio and the easiest to install badly. Get the hanging wrong and within two years the pair sags and there is a draft straight down the center of the opening.
Entry Doors
The front door is the only part of your house every visitor touches. On most Gateway Cities tract homes it is still the original slab with a deadbolt that needs a hip check.
Window Screens & Sun Screens
Window screens on a coastal house are the component that wears out fastest, because a screen is open mesh in a metal frame sitting directly in salt spray. Solar screens on a west elevation are close to the most cost-effective upgrade available here.
Glass Repair & Insulated Glass Units
Foggy glass means the edge seal on your insulated glass unit has failed and the desiccant inside is saturated. Nobody can drill it, drain it and make it permanently right, whatever the internet says.
Why Long Beach Chooses Long Beach Elite Windows
- ✓Over 20 years glazing storefronts and homes across Long Beach and the South Bay
- ✓Commercial-first crew: aluminum storefront, curtain wall, entrances and spandrel glass
- ✓Salt-air specification as standard, with marine-grade hardware and non-ferrous fasteners
- ✓Laminated acoustic packages rated on OITC for the port, the flight paths and the 710
- ✓In-house installers, never subcontractors you have never met
- ✓Licensed by the CSLB, fully insured and bonded, with a written workmanship warranty
- ✓Se habla español
About Long Beach Elite Windows in Long Beach, CA
Long Beach Elite Windows has spent over 20 years glazing this stretch of coast, from retail units on Pine Avenue and 2nd Street to bungalows in Rose Park and bluff-facing houses in Belmont Heights.
We started with two installers and a truck doing storefront repairs downtown, picked up the residential work by referral, and never split the two apart, which is why the crew that rebuilds an entrance door on Monday is the crew setting clad-wood double-hungs in a California Heights Craftsman on Wednesday.
We still run every job with our own in-house installers rather than handing your building to a subcontractor you have never met.
Working this close to the water teaches you where windows really fail, and it is almost never the glass. It is the metal. Chloride-laden air pits mill-finish aluminum, blooms rust out of plated steel screws, and turns a set of nylon-and-steel rollers into gravel inside four or five years.
So we isolate dissimilar metals, use stainless and non-ferrous fasteners, spec anodized or high-performance powder-coated finishes where the design wants aluminum, and steer people towards vinyl and fiberglass where it does not.
We also measure every opening in three places, shim plumb and square, insulate the perimeter, and flash the head and sill, because a good unit set badly leaks sooner than an average unit set properly.
We help you pick the glass rather than sell you a brand.
That means reading the NFRC label out loud with you, being straight that coastal Long Beach does not need the same solar heat gain number as a house ten miles inland, and asking for the OITC rating rather than only the STC when you live under a flight path.
It also means telling you when not to spend: no triple pane, no argon refill service, no laminated glass on a second-floor bathroom window nobody can reach. We are licensed by the CSLB, fully insured and bonded, install to AAMA and NAFS guidelines, and back every installation with a written workmanship warranty.
Se habla espanol, and the in-home measure is free.
Service Areas
Long Beach Elite Windows serves Long Beach, CA and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
1. Measure and quote
We measure every opening in three places for width and height, check the sill and framing for rot and out-of-square, note the exposure and the distance to open water, and walk you through frame material, glass package and hardware metallurgy. On commercial work we survey the existing system and confirm whether it is storefront, window wall or curtain wall before anyone prices it. You get an itemized quote per opening.
2. Order and schedule
Custom units are built to your measurements, which usually runs three to six weeks and longer when the glass is laminated or the framing is a special finish. Anodized and custom powder-coated aluminum adds lead time, so we tell you that at the quote rather than at week five. Once the order lands we set a firm date, and for tenants we set it after hours.
3. Install, flash and seal
Old sashes and lites come out, the opening gets shimmed plumb and square, then the new unit is set, the perimeter insulated with low-expansion foam, the head and sill flashed, and the exterior sealed with a joint sealant rated for real movement. On coastal elevations we isolate dissimilar metals and use non-ferrous fasteners, because galvanic corrosion at a fastener is a slow leak with a delay timer on it.
4. Inspect and warranty
We operate every sash, lock and closer with you, check reveals and door swing, haul away the old units and packaging, and hand over the NFRC labels, cut sheets and warranty paperwork. On commercial jobs we leave the submittal set for your file and the building department. If something sticks, whistles or drips six months later, call us and we come back out.
Recent Projects Across the South Bay and Greater Long Beach
What Long Beach Customers Say
We are under the airport approach and had given up on sleeping through the early departures. They spec'd laminated units with two different glass thicknesses in the bedrooms only, explained the OITC number rather than waving an STC figure at us, and the difference is real.
Replaced the storefront and both entrance doors at our shop over a weekend so we never lost a trading day. They caught that the previous glazier had used plated screws on a coastal elevation and swapped everything to stainless. The submittal package was ready for the city.
Our patio slider had been fighting us for years. They rebuilt it with stainless tandem rollers and a new track insert for a fraction of what another company quoted for a whole new door, and told me straight that the door itself was fine. That is rare.
Three fogged units, all on the ocean side of the house, which they pointed out before I did. They swapped just the insulated glass and matched the sightline exactly instead of pushing full replacements. Also showed me the corroded screen clips I had been ignoring.
Commercial Storefront, Curtain Wall & Entrance Glazing in Long Beach & the South Bay
Commercial glazing is the core of what we do. We glaze retail on Pine Avenue, 2nd Street in Belmont Shore and 4th Street Retro Row, the medical corridor around Long Beach Memorial, restaurants, professional offices, the retail at Long Beach Exchange, and the industrial and logistics buildings out towards the port and the 710.
That covers aluminum storefront framing in one-inch and two-inch systems, thermally broken where the energy code requires it, curtain wall and window wall, entrance doors with closers, pivots, thresholds and panic hardware, insulated, tempered, laminated and spandrel glass, and emergency board-up followed by a permanent replacement.
Commercial glass is engineered to a design pressure, inspected by the building department, often reviewed by the owner's insurer, and it usually has to go in without shutting the tenant down. Near the harbor it also has to survive salt air, which is why we spec anodized and powder-coated finishes and non-ferrous fasteners rather than whatever ships fastest.
- ✓Aluminum storefront framing in one-inch and two-inch systems, thermally broken where required
- ✓Curtain wall and window wall glazing, correctly distinguished at the estimate stage
- ✓Entrance doors, closers, pivots, thresholds and panic hardware, installed and serviced
- ✓Insulated, tempered, laminated and spandrel glass specified to design pressure
- ✓Retail, restaurants, medical suites, offices, and port-area industrial buildings
- ✓Anodized and powder-coated finishes with non-ferrous fasteners for harbor-adjacent sites
- ✓After-hours, overnight and weekend installation so the tenant keeps trading
- ✓Emergency board-up, plus scheduled glazing programs for multi-property managers
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does window replacement cost in Long Beach?
Vinyl retrofit replacement windows around Long Beach generally land between $400 and $900 per window installed. Fiberglass and clad-wood run higher, roughly $800 to $1,600, and laminated acoustic or security glass adds a few hundred more per opening.
Full-frame replacement, where the old frame and nail fin come out down to the studs, costs more than a retrofit insert because there is stucco and trim work involved. Commercial storefront is priced by the system and the access, not per window. We quote per opening after the measure.
Do windows really help with airport and freeway noise here?
Yes, if you buy the right ones. A laminated insulated unit with two different lite thicknesses and a wider airspace, set in a well-sealed frame, makes a genuine difference under the Long Beach Airport flight paths and along the 405 and the 710.
Ask for the OITC rating rather than only the STC, because OITC is weighted towards the low-frequency energy that aircraft, trucks and port machinery actually produce. What no window will do is make the house silent, and any contractor promising that is selling something nobody manufactures.
Does living near the water change which windows I should buy?
It changes the metal more than the glass. Chloride in coastal air pits untreated aluminum, corrodes plated steel fasteners, and chews through cheap rollers and balances within a few years of the water. Vinyl and fiberglass frames do not corrode at all. Where you want aluminum, specify a quality anodized or powder-coated finish.
Then make sure the hardware, the fasteners and the screen frames are stainless or non-ferrous, because the frame usually outlives the parts bolted to it and that is where coastal windows actually fail first.
Do I need triple-pane windows in Long Beach?
No, and we would rather tell you now than sell them to you. Triple glazing earns its keep where winters are long and the heating load dominates. Here the ocean moderates both ends of the year, the annual heating load is small, and the extra lite adds weight to the sash and the hardware for very little gain.
A good dual-pane unit with a double-silver soft-coat low-E, argon fill and a warm-edge spacer will outperform a cheap triple pane and cost less. Spend the difference on the coating, the spacer and the installation.
What does Title 24 require for replacement windows on the coast?
California's Building Energy Efficiency Standards set a maximum U-factor and a maximum solar heat gain coefficient for replacement fenestration, verified off the NFRC label on the unit.
The limits vary by California Energy Commission climate zone, and coastal Los Angeles is in a cooler zone than inland Orange County, so a spec pulled from an inland job is not automatically right for a Long Beach address. We check the zone against the address before we quote and leave the labels on the glass for the field inspector.
Can you work on a storefront without closing the business?
That is normally how we do it. We install and service aluminum storefront framing, curtain wall and window wall, entrance doors, closers, panic hardware and spandrel glass for retail on Pine Avenue and 2nd Street, offices, medical suites near Long Beach Memorial, restaurants and port-area industrial buildings.
Work gets scheduled at night or over a weekend so the tenant does not lose a trading day, and we quote it that way from the start. Broken lites get boarded the same day and replaced permanently once the custom glass is fabricated.