River Rouge houses were built for a city three times its present size, and nearly all of them before 1950. That is old enough that a window is usually a frame job as much as a glass job. That framing work is ours, backed by a 15-year labor warranty.
What We Do in River Rouge
Whatever the outside of your River Rouge 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.
The housing we work on
Replacement windowsAll Three Trades
River Rouge housing was built for a city three times its present size, and nearly all of it before 1950. Age and weather off open water shape what the outside of a house here actually needs.
The original windows on a house this age are painted wood sash, and after eighty years and a dozen coats a window here is usually a frame job as much as a glass job. We tell you which one you have at the estimate rather than after the crew arrives.
The Rouge River forms the northern boundary and the Detroit River the eastern one. Wind and damp off open water are hard on old glazing putty, on painted sash, and on an exterior door that faces it.
This is worker housing built close together on narrow lots, so access and staging matter. We plan that with you rather than turning up and finding out, and protect what is underfoot on the way in.
Windows, doors and siding all carry the same 15-year labor warranty from us, so there is one company and one number whichever part of the outside of the house we touched.
Local Knowledge
River Rouge has water on two sides and housing that mostly predates 1950. Both of those change what a replacement window has to do here.
River Rouge counted 20,549 people in 1950 and 7,224 at the 2020 census. The houses came from that earlier city, so the stock here is mostly pre-war and early post-war, and the original windows were wood sash with separate storms.
The settlement incorporated as a village in 1899 inside Ecorse Township. When Detroit began looking at annexing township land, the village incorporated as a city on April 3, 1922, and kept its own boundaries.
The Rouge River forms the northern boundary with Detroit and the Detroit River forms the eastern one, which is also the border with Canada. Wind and damp come off open water on two sides, and that is hard on old glazing putty and on wood sash that has been painted a dozen times.
The Great Lakes Engineering Works yard in River Rouge launched the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1958. The yards and the mills are the reason the housing went up when it did, and they are why so much of it is worker housing built close together on narrow lots.
Your Local Rep
Kyle Adkins Jr. is our VP of Sales and covers River Rouge 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 River Rouge. 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
Checkable Proof
Anyone can say trusted. These are the marks that other organizations put their own name behind, and every one of them can be checked without taking our word for it.
Pella Platinum Elite Certified Contractor: factory training and audited installation quality, certified directly by Pella.
BBB Accredited Business: our record and reviews are public on the Better Business Bureau's own site.
GuildQuality member: homeowner satisfaction surveyed independently after the job, published under our name.
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 River Rouge 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
One Real Place
Every window, door, and siding sample on our floor is one we actually install. Open and close the real thing, compare colors in person instead of from a chip, and talk to the family that has run this company since 1979. The phone rings at this address, not at a call center.
Questions
Sometimes, and we will tell you when they can. Press the wood near the sill first. If it gives, water has been getting in for a while and it is working on the frame behind the sash, and at that point a replacement unit set into a repaired opening lasts longer than another round of repairs.
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 River Rouge.
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Areas We Serve
One family company out of Southgate, working across Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties since 1979. Find your city below for local details.
