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Window replacement in Century City typically costs between $4,500 and $15,000, while impact window installation runs $8,000 to $25,000 depending on opening count and glass ratings. Most jobs wrap in two to five days once materials land and building management clears the schedule. Barrett & Sons Construction has worked inside Century City’s high-rise condominiums and office towers long enough to know the difference between a bid that works here and one that works in a single-family neighborhood. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk your building’s specifics before you sign anything.
Century City is not a normal construction market. The residential stock is almost entirely luxury high-rise condominiums like The Century, Park Place, and The Carlyle, built from the 1970s through the 2010s. No curb parking, no driveway staging, no leaving a trailer overnight. Every window and door job here runs through elevator booking systems, HOA work-hour windows, and shared-corridor dust rules. We plan for that from the first conversation, not the first day on site.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Century City’s Preferred Windows & Doors Company
Tom Barrett founded this company in 1998 and still puts his name on every contract. That matters in a ZIP code like 90067, where building managers and condo boards want a contractor who will show up, sign in, and answer the phone when the board secretary calls. Our crew members are background-checked and uniformed on every visit, and they carry the Barrett & Sons name, not a subcontractor’s logo. We pull permits on every eligible job and we get the final inspection signed before we call it done.
We have replaced aging storefront glazing at Park Place, where management required scaffold-free installation from inside the unit to avoid disrupting the shared plaza below. Our crew sequenced the work around HOA-approved hours and elevator bookings, using impact-rated glass to meet both seismic drift and solar heat gain requirements. The punch list was closed before the next board meeting. That is the kind of job you only learn to run by doing it inside a building like that, and we have done it.
Calls to (877) 610-1318 are answered by a live person, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not a voicemail box, not an out-of-state call center. If you need a Windows & Doors team that understands high-rise logistics in Century City, you will talk to someone who has actually walked the freight elevators here.
Our Windows & Doors Services in Century City
Window Installation
Window installation in Century City means working with concrete and steel party walls, not wood framing. Anchoring methods, shim tolerances, and sealant choices all change when the wall behind the frame is poured concrete. We install Andersen and Marvin windows in these buildings regularly, and we know what the building engineer will ask about attachment details before we submit the permit packet.
Door Installation
High-rise door installation in Century City is governed by fire rating, corridor pressurization, and accessibility codes that a residential contractor in the Valley rarely touches. We have installed slab doors, pre-hung units, and storefront systems in towers where the door schedule has to match the original frame dimensions exactly. No wall spreading, no improvisation, no re-cutting a concrete opening on site.
Window Replacement
Window replacement in Century City runs $4,500 to $15,000 and frequently includes custom sizing for openings that were never standard. Like many 1970s-era luxury towers, the original frames at buildings here were often site-glazed aluminum with odd dimensions. Replacement usually means new thermally broken frames, low-E glass tuned to solar heat gain, and a written scope that covers what gets patched, painted, and sealed around each opening.
Impact Windows & Doors
Impact windows and doors are the recurring conversation in Century City for two reasons: high-seismic drift and solar heat gain. Impact-rated glass systems handle lateral movement better than standard glass, and they cut solar load in a building envelope dominated by curtain-wall construction. Impact window installation here runs $8,000 to $25,000 depending on how many openings are involved and whether the building requires specific pressure ratings for wind exposure on upper floors.
What happens when you call
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Century City
We install and service brand-name window and door systems across Century City, and we keep the paperwork for every job on file. For window work, Andersen and Marvin are our go-to lines because their engineering documentation holds up under architectural-review scrutiny. For projects involving roofing or flashing tie-ins around a penthouse window wall, we carry GAF materials and can scope the entire assembly as one trade package. You should be able to look up every product that goes into your building. We name them in writing, in the contract, before a single frame is ordered.
Common Windows & Doors Problems We See in Century City Homes
- Architectural-review rejections on frame color and glass reflectance. Several Century City condo boards have exact standards for exterior frame finish and visible reflectance values. Submitting a spec that misses either one stalls the whole job. We check board standards before we order, not after the review letter comes back.
- Freight elevator scheduling without staging buffer. Material coming through one shared corridor has to move in sequence, not all at once. When a contractor books elevator time without leaving room for staging, half-installed frames sit in common areas and the neighbors call the office. We plan the full path from truck to unit before the first day.
- Non-ductile concrete retrofit conflicts at perimeter openings. Century City’s mandatory retrofit ordinance means ongoing column jacketing and shear wall additions on several 1960s and 1970s towers. When a new shear wall lands where a door was planned, the opening moves. We review the retrofit drawings when available so that surprise does not become a change order after demolition.
- Corner-unit window leaks driven by wind exposure at elevation. Upper-floor units in Century City get more wind-driven rain than ground-level homes. We see failing sealant and worn weatherstripping at corner units the most, and repairs usually need a lift or scaffold plan approved by building management.
Pricing for Windows & Doors in Century City, CA
Pricing here reflects the building, not just the glass. Window replacement in Century City runs $4,500 to $15,000 for most condominium units, and impact window installation runs $8,000 to $25,000. The range moves with opening count, glass package, frame finish, and whether the board requires specific pressure ratings or architectural-review revisions. A mid-rise unit at Park Place with six openings and standard low-E glass will land differently than a corner unit at The Century with floor-to-ceiling impact glazing and custom sightlines.
| Service | Typical Century City Range |
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| Impact Window Installation | $8,000-$25,000 |
| Window Replacement | $4,500-$15,000 |
Every scope, every allowance, every price change arrives as a written change order before work happens. You will not get an allowance that is not on paper. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate and we’ll put the full line-item scope in writing.
We Also Serve Cities Near Century City
Our crews serve Century City and the surrounding west side regularly. That includes Beverly Hills, Culver City, West Hollywood, and Santa Monica. If you manage a property in one of those cities and need the same brand-name materials and written-scope discipline, call (877) 610-1318 and ask for the windows and doors team.
Serving Century City, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Century City area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Windows & Doors in Century City
Architectural review in Century City adds two to six weeks to most window replacement jobs, depending on the board’s meeting calendar and whether the submittal passes on the first review. We prepare the submittal packet ourselves: frame material, visible reflectance values, exterior color, glazing type, and attachment details. We file it, we track it, and we schedule installation only after the approval letter is in hand so the job is not sitting half-finished waiting on a committee. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll tell you what your building’s process actually looks like.
Not every high-rise condo in Century City requires impact-rated windows, but many boards and retrofit programs ask for them, especially on upper floors exposed to wind-driven rain and in buildings undergoing non-ductile concrete seismic upgrades. Impact glass handles lateral drift better than standard units, and it cuts solar heat gain through the curtain-wall envelope. We can tell you whether the requirement applies to your building after one look at the association’s standards. Call (877) 610-1318 for an exact answer on your unit.
Yes. We sequence material delivery through freight elevator bookings, stage inside the unit when the building allows it, and work within HOA-approved quiet hours. We build buffer into the schedule for corridor staging and elevator downtime, so the crew is never standing in a common area with frames half-stacked. That planning is the difference between a job neighbors barely notice and one that fills the board’s inbox with complaints.
Century City’s mandatory non-ductile concrete seismic retrofit ordinance, Ordinance 183893, applies to several 1960s to 1970s office towers here. If your building is in retrofit, window and door work often has to coordinate with column jacketing and shear wall additions that affect perimeter openings. A new shear wall can block a planned door location, which changes the permit filing and the scope. We check retrofit drawings when they are available and sequence window work around the structural schedule so you are not paying for rework.
We schedule deliveries through the freight elevator and carry waste out through the same path, booked in advance with building management. For buildings without a loading dock, we coordinate street-level delivery windows and hand-carry materials to the freight elevator in scheduled trips. Nothing sits in a shared corridor overnight, and nothing goes down a garbage chute. The board gets a clean punch list and the common areas stay clean.
If you need windows or doors replaced inside a Century City tower, call (877) 610-1318. We will review your building’s standards, put the scope in writing, and walk you through the review and retrofit realities before you commit to anything.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Century City since founding in 1998.