Most of Trenton went up while the steel plant on the river was running, so the houses here are largely post-war and a lot of them still carry their original aluminium or early vinyl windows. We replace windows, doors and siding with our own employee crews, backed by a 15-year labor warranty.
What We Do in Trenton
Whatever the outside of your Trenton 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
Trenton filled in while the plant on the river was running, so most of the housing here shares a vintage. That is why the same three jobs keep coming up, and why one company handling all of them is worth something.
A post-war Trenton house got aluminium or early vinyl windows, and both are past the life their seals were built for. The frames around them are often still square, which works in your favour: the replacement sits into a sound opening.
A city built across a few decades repeats a handful of house plans down a street, so sizes tend to be consistent room to room. We still measure every opening twice and order to that number, but there are fewer surprises here than in a town assembled over a century.
The same 15-year labor warranty covers the windows, the doors and the siding: the frame set plumb and square, the sealing, the finished trim. One call to the office and we come back at no cost to you.
Trenton's building department requires a permit to repair, alter or change a building, pulled before work begins. It is a fair question for anyone bidding your job: who files it, and when.
Local Knowledge
Trenton was not built the way the older river towns were. It filled in fast, in one long stretch, and that shows up in the openings.
Abram Caleb Truax settled the site in 1816, on the high ground along the Detroit River, and put up a sawmill, a church and a store. The place went by Monguago and then Truago before taking the name Trenton in 1847, after a limestone quarried here.
McLouth Steel bought the riverfront land in 1948, poured its first ingots the year after, and ran until 1996. Trenton grew through all of it and its population peaked in 1970. That makes most of the housing post-war, which in practice means the first windows were aluminium or early vinyl, and plenty of them are still in the wall.
A city built across a few decades repeats a handful of house plans down a street, so the openings tend to agree with each other room to room. We still measure every one twice, but there are fewer surprises here than in a town that went up over a century.
Trenton's building department requires a permit to repair, alter or change a building, and it is pulled before a crew begins. It is a fair question for anyone bidding your job: who files that, and when.
Your Local Rep
Kyle Adkins Jr. is our VP of Sales and covers Trenton 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 Trenton. 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 Trenton 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
Usually, yes. A window from that era is either single-pane aluminium or an early vinyl unit, and both are past the life the seal was built for. The frames are often still square, which is in your favour: it means a replacement unit sits into a sound opening rather than into one that has moved.
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 Trenton.
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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.
