How long have y’all been waiting for windows? UPDATE: My windows are in! (Second page)

windows and doors are hard to come by.
on the commercial side the wait can be much longer

sooner they get ordered the sooner you’ll get them

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We plan to redo our sunroom and our contractor said the wait for windows could be up to four months. They are a standard size, 3’x6’, I think. Anyway, he won’t start the project till the windows come in.

Have any of y’all waited longer than four months?

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He may be underselling the wait, from what I hear. But that is the standard answer right now, 16 weeks.

We waited for 3 months for windows for our renovation.

When they came in, we discovered the contractor ordered the wrong ones.

We get to enjoy these for 3 more months until the correct ones come in. :)

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He may be underselling the wait

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Based on our recent experience with a couch, this is my fear.

We ordered a couch on Aug 3 and the estimated time of arrival was between mid-December to early January. I checked the website from time to time and it would change. Late January, early December, early February.

In October we got an email saying now backordered and not expected till March 22. Over the next five months the date never changed, and by the first of March I felt confident that it would actually be shipped soon.

March 5, new email. Now backordered again with new expected shipping date of August 26, more than a year after ordering! Ugh!

I phoned customer service and “discussed” it and asked why they hadn’t at least reached out to offer a different couch. Even a better couch, but with a discount to make a repeat customer happy. We shopped the website together and I found one I liked, but hadn’t previously considered because of price. I got her to give us a 25% discount. That was Saturday, March 5. I’m sitting on my new couch as I type.

Oh, the drama with THIS couch is that after I ordered it, I noticed that the specs said that it needed a minimum 38” wide doorway to get in. Our biggest door is 36”, but clearance is even less than that. I panicked, but figured I’d have some time to figure it out, then received notice two days later that it shipped!

Looked at websites that offered suggestions about how to get couches through doorways, told my husband he might have to take the front door off its hinges, remove the storm door, maybe even the door jamb. He balked at removing the door jamb. Called Two Men and a Truck movers and asked if they’d come and try (their minimum was too high), and the last resort was to let it sit in the garage until the sunroom was complete, since we are replacing one of the exterior doors with French doors, and there are already French doors between the sunroom and the house.

I cannot express how stressed I felt when the email came telling me the couch was being delivered that day.

And then the couch arrived and my husband and the delivery guy got it in the door without too much effort!

I have a friend who works for a window manufacturer, he says lead times have been about 16 weeks, but their primary factory outside of DesMoine was hit by an F4 tornado 2 weeks ago. At least 8 weeks before they get restarted.

Lost a lot of orders on that, but kept a lot because getting in line elsewhere would be just as bad.

Shortage of labor and shortage of materials.

He said his life is miserable as he is so tired of giving bad news.

Same with us. We have bronze frames outside and white inside. That increased the wait. Straight white was shorter.

Had ours ordered since January 5th. Won’t be in until April 28th

Try calling and asking for a measly three windows. You almost get laughed at. I have Gorilla tape on one. Hope that shite is as tough as they say. Any of you baws have a solid contact around Lafayette?

Building a house and we got our windows installed in October well a couple are defected won’t slide up all the way. We’ve been waiting since November on replacements and still haven’t got an idea when they will be in the place we got them from still can’t give me an answer.

We ordered 17 for our barndominium 12 weeks ago, 3x5 standard and 6x5 picture frame. Received text yesterday they have arrived. This was through McCoy's.