Pella

Do yourself a favor and if you're thinking of doing business with this company, which is actually KC Company, RUN!!! Do not do business with Pella/KC Company if you want to keep your sanity (When we complained to Pella, they said they were not liable for the job that we have to deal with KC Company. Funny, because we had no idea. We called Pella and asked for an estimate, and they sent us KC Company who represented themselves as Pella). Anyway, very unsatisfied with this company's service, as they are totally incompetent in being able to complete the job.

Several years ago I spent over $13,000 for a bay window and sliding doors, both designer series. The installation and quality of these was over the top. Unfortunately, their customer service is the absolute worst I have ever experienced. It is almost non-existent. Recently I tried to get in touch with the local office to replace one of the blinds which had broken in the bay window. They never answer their phone and do not return messages. In the meantime, I tried to open the hinged glass panel to fix the blinds myself, when it would not open. I popped it with a screwdriver to open it. But the next time, it would not open no matter what I did.

Pella Windows (Denver) - Product: generally good, with a few reservations about the sliding door we bought (a little cheesy). Installation: incompetent beyond belief. A comedy of errors throughout. Parts were missing, measurements wrong, different crews showed up with or without a supervisor, and the salesman was clearly incompetent. Pieces of my (very expensive) windows are still missing, and have been many times promised -- I'm sure I'll never get them. This company has the reputation of one of the best...and yet most reviews are like mine: installation and service a disaster. How do they stay in business? Renewal by Andersen has got to be better (they could hardly be worse!).

All window latches are coming loose and not closing. This is the second time in the 8 months I’ve had them. Driving rain here in NY, rain pouring in from one window due to poor quality/alignment. All vinyl purchased from Lowe's Danbury Ct. Junk, I purchased 9 double sliding windows.

I wish I'd found this website before I bought my Pella triple sliding patio door 3 years ago from Lowe's. I want to say that my experience has been horrible to say the least; service from Pella is terrible and from Lowe's, nonexistent. Six months from purchase before delivery was completed, door was sent to Maui, Hawaii, without the center panel and had to be reordered. Since then the internal blinds have been replaced twice (would not work properly) and now the sliding screen is jammed and won't retract. I only live in Maui half the year, so it's not overuse. Pella only services Maui from Honolulu ONCE A MONTH and it is a long wait for service. Need I say more? All this grief cost me $6000! Unbelievable.

I bought a bunch of windows and sliding patio doors from Pella Windows and Doors of Hicksville. I have been waiting for months for corrections to my orders. I also had other issues with the orders which they corrected, but still waiting on corrections for the screens in the correct color and materials. Unreturned phone calls and broken promises over and over. They are truly bad.

Choosing Pella windows was the worst decision of my life. They are almost 2 months behind on shipping my windows for my new home. They have shipped windows to my house 3 separate times in small quantities which does absolutely nothing for me since the framer will not make a special trip to install 4 windows at a time. This has delayed my build 40 days. My build is at a standstill as they cannot insulate without windows installed. They offer no explanation. My builder has called and complained several times to request some kind of compensation for this delay from their original promised delivery date. My builder says he will never order Pella again. Shame on you Pella.

Ours windows are awful. We have moisture in one. Have a hard time locking them the top sash slides down. The safety locks are incredibly hard to use. And lastly we have a crane out window the slides off the track.

I had these windows installed in May 2017 to conserve energy as well as lessen outside noises. I was not impressed with the way they muted the sound. After having these windows 10 months, one had cracked. I called the business that sold them to us and they said two weeks and it should be installed. Two weeks went by and Pella had no record of the order. Ordered again. Still no window 3 weeks later. Ordered yet again in April and was told it would be installed the end of May. End of May and a person arrives to investigate the problem. Window ordered still again and was told it would be installed within a month. The end of June receive a call the window is in but glass is broken. I just received a call from Pella. Glass broke still again and they hope to have it installed the end of July... hmmmm what will be wrong with the install on July 31st. Imagine that 4 months to replace a glass window. I would recommend Window World over Pella any day!

Since Pella of Madison has managed to take down all of their public comments, I am going to post here. Pella of Madison came to our home and blamed the problems we are having on our Aprilaire system even though our humidity level is set at 35%. The worker that came out said he was going to check with his supervisor and get back with us. That was over 2 months ago. The windows are letting in cold air through the tops and bottoms and creating mold in 15 of the 19 windows we purchased. We have contacted them 4 times with these issues. I guess our next step will be to file complaints with the BBB and the state of Wisconsin. We paid too much money to be having these issues.

One of my Pella windows recently started fogging due to a leak between the glass. I contacted Pella to resolve the issue and to get a replacement under warranty. I sent them all the information they required and within a few days I received a call from a window and door company. That window and door company told me that I had to pay a "service fee" of $125 for them to come out and inspect the defective window. How is this legal? I'll neither buy nor recommend a Pella window again.

I have a Pella sliding door. It had been installed for 6 years. In the middle of the night, it imploded. Mind you, there is nothing but a ravine and woods behind my house, only 1 near neighbor, and no easy access to my back yard. I talked to other people in the window manufacturing business and was told that on very rare occasions, the dual pane window can, in fact, implode. Pella (lack of) customer service says a phantom appeared in the middle of the night and threw something at my glass, causing it to break. Therefore, it is not covered in warranty. Add the fact that the individual I talked to was rude, and would interrupt with condescending comments made the whole experience horrible! Keep away from them! They will come up with any excuse to avoid living up to their warranty.

We bought 21 large Pella windows from Lowe's home center in March of 2000, they were custom fitted for our home. After the windows were installed in a new constructed home, we noticed a problem with the wood used to make the windows. The outside metal cladding used to wrap the casement had fallen off and the wood had rotted and fell to the bottom of the window. I contacted Pella on this matter and was told the windows were only warranted on the glass and if the glass was intact the wood was not covered. I replaced the patio doors and 5 windows with another brand of windows and had the wall repaired where the windows leaked inside. I also have a Egress window that has been replaced because of rotting wood, it was a Pella window and I replaced it with a Pella window and the wood is rotting to this day.

We purchased our townhouse in 2003. Pella windows are in our townhouse -- the worst ever!!! No customer service no help. They want to charge $150.00 to look at 10 windows, we have 20 $300.00. To look at their horrible windows to tell us we need new ones -- Pella should be begging us to let them come to our house & apologizing to us for putting in an inferior windows at no charge to us. I don't know how they sleep at night. Everyone from the bottom up is no help. Especially corporate (they lock them in a closet to repeat the same answers). My husband is a veteran and they treated us horribly. Don't ever buy these windows! They don't even deserve one star.

I now see why Pella windows are so expensive. Obviously they have NO Quality Control so are constantly have to send out repairmen to replace and repair product. I have had to have service out 3 times and they are not done yet. I have had my Pella windows and patio door for 2 years. I had to have 4 windows replaced because the screws that were put in the bottom of the window were too long and broke the seal so moisture was forming between the panes. A couple windows would not lock (hardware was not installed correctly or bad hardware). One window had bad weather stripping... All the handles needed to be adjusted.

We made an appointment over a month ago with Pella to replace a broken door handle. We were told they have to order the part and it would take at least a month. The repair guy arrived today (month+ later); however he did not check the part before he came to repair the door and found he was given the wrong part. Now we will have to wait yet another month as they have to re-order the correct part. I think the part should be shipped to them overnight and this issue should be resolved within a week. Our home is listed so it is important to have this door fixed asap.

My custom built home had a Pella Window contract that was 6 figures. Almost all of them failed (rotted) after 7 years and now, even those replacements have failed. I've begun replacing them all. Their customer service is almost non-existent and they have no sense of urgency in getting back to you. The horror is that frequently the damaged windows are behind the walls and when you finally notice it, the walls need repair as well. Why anyone would even consider Pella is now beyond me. What a costly mistake.

Blinds between the door failed within 5 years, pellets started dropping between the glass just like pictures the other reviewers posted. The wood underneath is rotting. They are going to need to fix this.

We have Pella windows that were installed in a custom built home that is less than two years old. During a recent heavy rain, the window in our great room began leaking significantly. I called Pella the next day, the first customer service agent hung up on me when I expressed my dismay over having a service call scheduled for a month from my call. I had to call back in and got another agent who instructed me to e-mail customer service with my issue and she would look for a more recent appointment. I e-mailed customer service and received an auto response indicating a return e-mail within 3 days. It has been 5 days with no further response and no callback. Meanwhile I keep an eye on the weather forecast hoping we will not get another rainstorm resulting in a significant amount of water in our great room.

I just built a new house with 27 windows. 26 were Pella windows. I purchased these because of Pella’s reputation of being a quality window and the performance rating for these windows had a U factor of 0.30 or better. I felt cold drafts coming from all 26 windows, so I used an IR thermal scanner to see where drafts were coming from. They were leaking around the glass and the window frames and frames to the jams.

Ordered windows and installation from Pella. Some measurements were wrong. Final installation was delayed for four months, neighbors garage access were blocked for days. Work was done poorly (not according to agreement). Two months after final installation two windows are leaking, damaging ceiling and walls. Called for repair, two weeks later appointment given (installation problems were acknowledged by tech) then complete silence from Pella Service. Five weeks later no attempt to address the issues were made, customer service unable to help, non-responsive. Stuck with leaking windows and water damage. Need to move forward hiring help to prevent massive structural and property damage. My recommendation; don't deal with Pella, they project a reliable company image. Nothing backs the customer, no one to turn to.

My wife & I don't have much bad to say about the front door that Pella installed. Then again for the money it costs we better not. The issue is we had a storm door that was not even 2 yrs. old and costs us $1900.00. Pella had two people measure the existing storm door, including the project manager/Pella Specialist. Both of them knew we wanted to keep this storm door. It was even written up on the work order to replace the existing storm door. The installers came, replace my encasement and front door, however this is where everything goes south. He tells me when he tried to install the storm door that it's about 1/4" too wide! Old carpenters rule of thumb, measure 2 times, cut once? NOT!!!

I had to have the locks changed on my Pella Patio Doors. There is apparently an adjustment to the lock mechanism that controls height and it is now sitting too low. However, there is no longer a sales and service office in our area and the office 1-1/2 hours away referred the call to an office 3 hours away and that took nearly two weeks, though their voicemail says 48 hours. So I was told it would cost almost $300 for someone to come here and fix it. They were supposed to call me "right back" and here we are over a week later.

Bought windows from Pella. Windows were incorrectly installed, metal capping is too high and the caulking is allowing water to come inside and ruin the wall. I was informed that I had a ten year warranty. Upon review, I was informed there is nothing they can do since I am outside of my two year warranty. This is the worse service ever. I would never use or recommend this company to anyone.

Bought my front door unit from Pella. The door has popped out on both inside and outside and rotten wood is falling out from behind the laminate/fake wood exterior panel. I received a discount on the unit when I purchased it, because it was sized wrong and didn't fit the home it was intended for. They will not honor the 10 year warranty because I received it at a discounted rate. Are you kidding me?? Brand new unit not guaranteed because I bought it at a reduced rate. Their people sized it wrong for someone else and would have had to trash it. If I would have known it was not covered under the warranty I can assure you I would have never bought it. Never ever use Pella Windows and Doors!

14 of my Pella Proline windows rotted. All had to be replaced. Cost $22000. 5 Proline Casement Windows did not rot. Pella just announced settling class action but only on casement windows. Smart Pella lawyers put maneuvered Clifford law who did receive $9,000,000 for not representing us! Don't buy Pella.

Had 2 large sliding Pella Impervia Series 2 yrs/3 months ago installed in my family room. I just saw that there is mold growing in the lower glazing bead on the fixed window. I am 71 yr old woman who lost husband 3 years ago, Pella said my labor warranty expired and this glazing bed defect is not covered anyway! They told me to go outside and pop the glazing bead off and clean it and pop it back on! Option pay 150.00 for a tech to come out and clean it. Quality terrible on brand new windows... and could happen with other window! Sorry I chose this company.

We installed Pella windows with the blinds and shades in the glass. They immediately showed that they were worth the investment. Very weathertight and kept my children's rooms dark with the room darkening shades while they were sleeping in the morning. I had Pella install the windows and have had no problems at all. Very impressed.

We originally called Pella and they sent a commission based representative out who was great, knowledgeable and easy to work with. We ended up buying 2 doors. One for about $11k and the other for about $3.5k. One of the doors was apparently going to need to have the jam reframed and I was told I could pay the installation contractor cash, which would be cheaper than through Pella. They were going to have to demo the existing, reframe and move electrical. I agreed to pay the $400 cash for such work.