tl;dr = Hurd Windows quality is low and their lifetime warranty for me was good for three years.
Anyway, whatever you do in your life don’t buy windows from the Hurd Window Company. Learn from my mistakes. In 2006 I replaced 3 sliding glass doors and 3 windows with Hurd aluminum clad wooden windows. The looked quite nice and seemed like the quality was pretty good. Well 7 years later and the low-e coating in one of the sliders and one of the windows is flaking off in between the window panes making it really hard to see through the windows. Call me crazy but this defeats one of the main purposes of glass windows and doors.
Not to worry I thought, they came with a lifetime warranty. So I stopped by the place that I bought them. First think I notice as I walk in the showroom is that there are no Hurd Windows anywhere. Uh oh, I think. I talk to the guy in charge and he asks when I bout them and explains that the Hurd Window Company filled for bankruptcy and the newly formed company got the court to agree that the old lifetime warranties would be voided. The new Hurd Window Company that emerged from bankruptcy was nice enough to extend a customer assistance program to existing customers extending back two years from the formation of the new company. So if you bought some poor quality windows from them on or after January 2007 you could still be covered. that is about 4-5 months after I bought mine. That means my lifetime warranty was good from 2006 - 2009, or three years. The lifetime wasn’t even the lifetime of their crappy windows which apparently is seven years.
The cost estimate I currently have to replace the glass in the ruined 7 year old windows is $1200.
Guess what sort of warranty the Hurd Window Company is offering now on their windows? Yep, a lifetime warranty. My lifetime warranty was good for three years and a third of the windows and doors I bought failed after seven years.
I’d feel a little better about this whole thing if this thread could be returned near the top of a google search for Hurd Window Company.
Mods, I’m not sure if this is in the right forum for this. I considered MPSIMS. I considered The Pit but I’m not really going to rant and I am going to offer my opinion about a product so I stuck it here. I even considered the Barn Huose but I thought it would be nice if someone read it and my house is only 30 years old. Mods, please move as you feel is appropriate. If you think it should be in the Pit I’ll add something about the Hurd Window Company felching goats.