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Essential - Elevate

Essential All Ultrex doors and windows are the go-to architectural solution when exceptional quality, durability and simplicity matter most. Clean lines and profiles with a lot of glass make these ideal for replacement doors-windows, contemporary projects and commercial building applications. While a streamlined set of options simplify the process; by balancing form and function, beauty and durability, Essential All Ultrex doors-windows are the maintenance and worry-free solution that hit the sweet spot between aesthetics, quality and price.

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Replacing old worn out windows with Essential All Ultrex is the perfect solution with custom sizing providing an exact, glove-like fit to the existing opening. The thin profile of Essential All Ultrex mimics the old Alenco aluminum and steel casement thin frames found in many of our Southwest homes. Architectural styling can be preserved while improving aesthetics, functionality and energy efficiency. Not only is Essential All Ultrex in high demand for new construction projects, but also the spot-on choice for replacement doors and windows. 

The key to strength is a good core – and every Ultrex product is made with pultruded fiberglass along with a finish patented to outperform and outlast vinyl, roll-form aluminum and other composites like Andersen Fibrex and Pella Impervia Duracast. The Ultrex proprietary pulltrusion process is manufactured to a high standard to endure all elements without showing age or wear.

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Wood Clad

Semco Doors are built to last while offering excellent performance, beauty and affordability. Industry followers found Semco to be the “Best Value” among piers at a price point that is unsurpassed. Utilizing the latest technology of engineered core construction for stability, with real wood veneers, Semco doors are made to perform and maintain ease of operation year after year. 

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Fully extruded aluminum exteriors finished with powder coating in unlimited colors, provide exceptional durability against the harsh Southwest weather elements.  German Hoppe multipoint locking systems offer improved security with many hardware finish options.  Cardinal glass is utilized for all window and door products and available in a multitude of energy efficient, low maintenance and impact resistant insulated glass units. Cardinal Glass Industries is the premier glass supplier to the trades with a broad offering of Low E selective coatings for energy efficiency and variable energy profiles. From Sliding Patio to Swinging French Doors along with Scenic wide opening doors, Semco hits a sweet spot for the market by providing durable, beautiful, energy efficient window and door products that satisfy the majority of design needs at a very competitive price.

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Signature

Marvin doors are designed, engineered and built for the most discerning homeowners, and the most exacting architects, builders and designers. Exquisite design and attention to detail, superior fit and finish, and architectural precision provides unsurpassed possibilities.

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Marvin Sliding Patio, Swinging Patio, Modern, Contemporary, Scenic, Commercial and View doors with openings up to 52’ provide design solutions for virtually every application. Whether for a replacement project or new construction, Marvin has you covered with a high-level of choices, styles and materials like wood, extruded aluminum or Ultrex fiberglass, along with hundreds of design options including wood species, stains, colors, hardware finishes, shades, and screens.

Every door in the Marvin product line is built with over 75 years of expertise, uncompromising performance with category-leading innovation and virtually unlimited ways to customize. If you can dream it, we can build it.
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Iron Doors

Lone Star Iron Doors offers some of the most beautiful and compelling wrought iron products found worldwide. With stunning pre-fashioned offerings or any design possibility that can be imagined, Lone Star artisans and craftsmen stand ready to design and create an ornamental wrought iron or contemporary Dura Steel entry way door or window of unmatched quality, elegance and security, to enhance the beauty of your home or building. For over 25 years Lone Star Iron Doors has built doors to last a lifetime with minimal care, all the while offering exceptional beauty and security. Durable commercial grade 14 gauge, foam-filled steel frames make for heavy duty doors that will endure for years and provide lasting elegance.

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Dura Steel windows and doors provide a solution for the latest minimalistic-contemporary architectural design trends.  Dura Steel contemporary doors and windows by Lone Star, provide exceptional energy efficiency, with virtually indestructible Thermally Broken Corrosion Resistant extrusions. Lone Star has a complement of streamlined Dura Steel window and door offerings for your project, to meet these new design challenges.

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​Emtek is dedicated to help bring your personal style to life. Door hardware is more than a way to open, close, and secure a space. It is an integral part of a room’s design theme. Each order is custom assembled in their Southern California facility. There is no predetermined combination of knobs, levers, rosettes and finishes, so you can mix and match according to your own taste, providing hundreds of personalized design options. 

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Founded in 1981, Emtek has decades of experience creating door hardware, while keeping their finger on the pulse of the market and regularly release new designs. The style is current, but the classics are a foundation of their designs along with traditional, contemporary, transitional, or rustic. There is a hardware set to match every style and everything you see can be customized with numerous options for knobs, levers, rosettes, and finishes. To see Emtek’s complete product offering, please visit their website or your stop by our Reule Sun Corporation Showroom to see samples and finish options.

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Compare Our Exterior Door Products

Features & ​Benefits	Marvin Signature	Marvin Essential - Elevate	SEMCO ​Wood Clad	Lone Star ​Iron Doors
Tensil Strength	Good	Excellent	Good	Excellent
Flexural Modulus Strength	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent
UV Degradation or Fading	Excellent	Good	Good	Good
Functional Durability	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent
Dark Color Durability  - Southwest	Excellent	Good	Good	Good
Expansion Contraction	Good	Excellent	Good	Good
Aesthetics	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent
Thermal Efficiency	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent	* Good
Initial Cost	Fair	Good	Good	Fair
Life Cycle Cost	Excellent	Good	Excellent	Excellent
Resists Rot	Good	Excellent	Good	Excellent
French Hinged - Inswing & Outswing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sliding Patio Doors	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
View Doors - Bifold & Multislide	Yes (up to 52' wide)​	No	Yes	No
Custom Design	Yes	No	No	Yes (any type)
Custom Size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Commercial Doors	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Warranty Years	Glass 20 - Parts 10	Glass 20 - Parts 10	Glass 20 - Parts 10	5 years

* Lone Star Iron Doors utilize a foam filled frame and optionally a thermally broken extrusion, for improved energy efficiency.

Our Proven Installation Process

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A superior seal to the building is facilitated when replacement windows are installed with an integral factory nail fin, the same as is required for a new construction installation.  The aesthetics are also greatly enhanced, considering the stucco will abut directly to the new window frame and supersede the need for trim pieces that have been systematically utilized for replacement windows in the past.  A nail fin installation for replacement windows is very similar to the methods utilized for a new construction installation, and one that is adopted and regulated by many State, County and Municipal Building Departments for replacement window installations.  In New Mexico, Bernalillo County, Los Alamos County, the City of Rio Rancho and the City of Albuquerque all require the nail fin installation method for replacement windows in stucco homes. For the installation into a stucco finish, our windows are ordered with an integral nailing fin, which is an attached flat projection that runs perpendicular the perimeter of the window frame (like a dorsal fin to a fish), and lays flat against the building sheathing (OSB or Plywood).  This nailing fin allows sealant and flashings to be transitioned from the existing paper vapor barrier to the new replacement window, for a complete weather-tight, waterproof, air barrier.  The application of the stucco system then provides additional weather resistant protection, but it is the nail fin and flashings that create the ultimate weather proof seal, when properly integrated to the existing building envelope. ​

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We take care to break out the stucco around the perimeter of the old window from 4” to 6”, exposing the building paper and stucco netting.

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The existing stucco netting (chicken wire) is folded back while at the same time exposing the existing building paper that must not be damaged or torn.

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The nails are pulled away from the nailing fin and the old window virtually falls out, leaving a clean, unobstructed opening for the new window.

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A “Sill Pan” is created with an application of Protecto Wrap BT25XL peel and stick rubberized flashing tape at the horizontal sill surfaces of the framing, up the sides several inches and then overlaps the existing building paper at the bottom, to maintain the “shingle effect”.

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Caulking is applied to the backside of the nailing fin at the sides and top and then the new window installed into the opening. The window is leveled, plumbed, trued up, and secured with screws through the nail fin to the existing framing, providing a reliable attachment and weatherproof interface to the building.

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Protecto Wrap window flashing adheres to the nailing fin and over the existing building paper at the sides, and under the existing building paper at the top. This flashing application method is commonly referred to as the “shingle effect” and is the same water management method employed for shingle roofs, allowing the moisture to cascade downward from the top to bottom without entering the building envelope.

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At this point of the installation, your new windows / doors are completely secured and sealed to your home, providing the ultimate protection against the weather elements. This work is accomplished by our highly trained window technicians, who are hourly employees and have undergone rigorous training for the Reule Smart Seal installation system. Once your windows are property installed with the Reule Smart Seal system, the stucco at the peri meter of the windows will require patching prior to the finish coats.

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The existing stucco netting (chicken wire) is folded back into place and new layer of diamond sheet metal lath applied over the stucco netting from the frame of the window and onto the adjacent stucco surfaces.

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The acrylic fortified fiberglass reinforced stucco base coat is applied over the metal lath, and floated onto the existing stucco surfaces to maintain a smooth transition. Depending on the depth of the patching, a second layer of basecoat may be required.

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A thin layer of Crack Master high performance polymer cement with embedded polyester mesh is applied over the base coat, to minimize any crack translation through the finish coats.

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Finish coats are applied after a proper 28 day cure of the base coats and Crack Master system.

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