Melvindale was laid out as a single subdivision for autoworkers, so its houses repeat down a street in a way most Downriver cities do not. We replace windows, doors and siding with our own employee crews, backed by a 15-year labor warranty.
What We Do in Melvindale
Whatever the outside of your Melvindale home needs, we handle it with our own employee crews, not subcontractors, and back the work with the same 15-year labor warranty.
Vinyl, wood, and fiberglass, measured twice and ordered to the exact size of your opening.
Entry, patio, and storm doors, set plumb and weatherstripped so they seal and keep sealing.
Panels that interlock and hang loose enough to move with the weather, in a range of colors and profiles.
Local Knowledge
Melvindale is a planned city rather than a grown one, and that is the single most useful thing to know about its windows.
The city started in the early 1920s as Oakwood Heights, a subdivision inside Ecorse Township laid out to house workers at the Ford River Rouge plant. It took its name from Melvin Wilkinson, one of the developers, incorporated as a village in 1924 and became a city in 1933.
Melvindale counted 4,764 residents in 1940 and 13,089 by 1960, and most of its housing dates from that stretch. A house here is typically a bungalow or a small brick ranch on a modest lot.
Because the city was platted and built out quickly, the same few house plans run down a block, so window sizes tend to agree from house to house. We still measure every opening twice and order to that size, but a planned street is a far more predictable job than a town assembled over a century.
Melvindale's building department requires that all contractors doing work within the city limits are registered with it, whether or not the job needs a permit. That is worth asking of anyone who bids your job, and the answer should not take them a phone call to find out.
Your Local Rep
Kyle Adkins Jr. is our VP of Sales and covers Melvindale and the rest of our southern service area. Ask for Kyle by name: Kyle comes out for the free in-home estimate, measures the openings, walks you through the material options, and hands you the full price in writing before anything is ordered. If a question comes up mid-job, Kyle is the person to call, and the phone rings in our Southgate office rather than a national call center.
What Sets Us Apart
When the company that sold you the job is not the company that installed it, a warranty call two years later turns into a search for whoever did the work. We do not work that way in Melvindale. Our own employees do the installation, never subcontractors, and the 15-year labor warranty comes from us, so there is one company to call.
1979
Family-owned and operating since
15
Year labor warranty on our workmanship
3
Generations of the Adkins family
We are a Pella Platinum Elite Certified Contractor, which means our crews are factory-trained and certified directly by Pella. They are our own employees, on our payroll, not a subcontracted crew hired for the week.
View Our CertificationFactory-Trained Crews Certified Directly by Pella
Our Own Employees, Never Subcontractors
Our Process
Four steps, one point of contact, and a clean home when we leave.
01
We come to your Melvindale home, measure, listen, and give you straight numbers. Or stop by the Southgate showroom and see the options first.
02
Every opening is measured twice, and every window and door is ordered to the exact size of your opening, so installation day has no surprises.
03
Our own factory-trained crew does the work, protects your floors and landscaping, and hauls away the old materials.
04
We walk the finished job with you and register your 15-year labor warranty before we leave.
Warranty
15
Years Warranty
Every installation is backed by our industry-leading 15-year labor warranty, on top of the manufacturer's coverage on the window itself. If the workmanship ever needs attention, one call and we make it right, at no cost to you.
180 Month
2
Years Warranty
Most window companies stand behind their installation for only a year or two. Once that coverage runs out, drafts, leaks, and seal failures become the homeowner's problem to fix.
24 Month
Questions
No, and it is worth understanding why. Melvindale streets do repeat house plans, so the openings are usually close, but sixty or seventy years of settling and re-siding move them apart by enough to matter. Every opening on your house gets measured twice and the window is ordered to that number.
Our own. Every installer is an Adkins & Sons employee on our payroll, factory-trained and certified directly by Pella. The people who measure your openings are the people who come back if anything needs attention.
Our workmanship: the frame set plumb and square, the sealing, and the finished trim. It sits on top of the manufacturer's own warranty on the product, and we register it with you at the final walkthrough before the crew leaves.
The in-home estimate is free and you get the full price in writing before anything is ordered. There is no pressure to sign that day. You can also see full-size windows and doors first at our 4,000 sq. ft. showroom in Southgate.
Also Serving
The same crews and the same warranty, with a page for each of the cities around Melvindale.
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One family company out of Southgate, working across Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties since 1979. Find your city below for local details.
