Rotted Sill, Caught in Time
Decay cut out completely and rebuilt in real wood — no filler, no new window.
Sashes that drop, locks that spin, cranks that grind, drafts that whistle — every one is a failed part with a printed catalog price, from $115. One scheduled visit clears the whole list, and every window stays on the wall.
Real WowFix job — drag to see the difference.
Real WowFix job — drag to see the difference.
In Alpharetta's subdivisions, windows went in by the street and their parts are wearing out the same way: balances, latches, cranks and weatherstripping, often in the same house at once. Tap what your window is doing and see which part it is:
What is your window doing?
Diagnosis
The sealed glass unit
The seal around the edge of the glass opened. Moisture got in and filled the drying beads inside the unit like a bathtub. When the tub overflowed, the fog showed up on the inside of the glass, where no cloth can reach.
We swap just the glass unit in your frame, from $198.
How foggy glass gets fixed →Diagnosis
The pivot shoe, a small plastic part
Hidden springs in the sides of the frame hold the sash up through a plastic pivot shoe. Over the years the plastic dries out and its hook breaks off, so nothing holds the sash anymore. Sometimes a sash that was forced snaps its metal pivot pin instead.
New balances and shoes, $175 a window.
Why windows won't stay up →Diagnosis
The bottom of the sash and the sill
Paint is the only armor wood has. Once it cracks, rain soaks into the flat parts at the bottom and never dries, and a fungus turns the wood soft from the inside. The top of the window stays solid.
We cut out the rot and splice in new wood: a sash from $375, a sill from $475.
How rot starts and how we fix it →Diagnosis
The crank operator, a small gearbox
On a casement window, a little gearbox under the sash turns the handle into motion. Its teeth strip with age, or all at once when a stuck window gets cranked hard. The handle spins free and the window stays put.
A new operator bolts in, $275.
More on broken cranks →Diagnosis
The weatherstripping
The soft strip around the sash flattens with age and stops touching it, so air walks right through the gap. A worn latch that no longer pulls the sash tight makes it worse.
New weatherstripping, $115 a window (3 windows minimum).
How we seal drafty windows →Diagnosis
Just the glass
A stray ball, a stone from the mower, a hard knock. The glass broke; the frame and the sash didn't.
New glass in your frame: a single pane from $164, a double-pane unit from $198.
Glass repair, every type →Diagnosis
The screen: its mesh, or its frame
Sun slowly breaks down the coating on the mesh until the strands snap instead of flexing, and it tears. Press it gently with your thumb: springy mesh only needs a wash, stiff papery mesh is done. Then look at the frame.
Frame still straight
Rescreen: new mesh in your frame
$100
Frame bent, or no screen
New screen built to size
$150
Diagnosis
The sash lock
The lock on the middle rail pulls the two sashes together. When it wears out, or the sash settles a little low, the two halves no longer meet and the window won't lock.
A new lock, $115.
Window hardware we replace →Do the whole house in one visit. If one window shows a symptom, check the rest with this list. Every part on it has its own catalog price, and we fix the list, not the house.
The same price we quote on the phone. Tell us what's going on — or just snap a photo — and see your estimate instantly.
Estimated price
$0
Preliminary estimate — your final price is confirmed on-site at booking. No surprises.
Not sure what it is?
A '90s or 2000s house in Windward, Glen Abbey or off Kimball Bridge Road came with one truckload of builder-grade vinyl double-hungs — which means the parts inside them share a birthday. Twenty-some years later the symptoms arrive as a package deal: the bonus-room sash free-falls because its balancers gave out, the master-bath latch turns without gripping, the casement crank above the kitchen sink chews its stripped gears, and every weatherstrip run in the house has been flattened by two decades of attic-temperature summers. That isn't a house that needs new windows. It's a parts list — balancers $175, latches from $115, cranks $275, weatherstrip per window — against a replacement pitch of $1,000+ per opening.
Since metro-Atlanta service runs on scheduled routes, the arithmetic favors batching: the appointment that rescues your dropping sash can re-spring every tired balancer in the house, swap the spinning latches, and lay fresh weatherstrip through the upstairs — each item at its own catalog price, on a single trip charge. Alpharetta sellers use the same visit as a pre-inspection sweep, clearing every operate-and-lock item before the buyer's inspector finds them. And when a window's problem belongs to a specialist, the hand-off is clean and in-house: fog between panes is a sealed-unit swap from $198, broken glass is fabricated from $198, soft wood rebuilds from $375. One company, one written quote.
List it, date it, fix it, warranty it — the punch list ends in a single scheduled visit.
Flag every window misbehaving — dropping, sticking, rattling, drafting, fogging, soft to the touch. Plain descriptions are fine; each one maps to a catalog line.
Dispatch schedules your metro-Atlanta appointment and stocks the truck against your list — hardware matched by spec, glass fabricated beforehand if the list needs it.
Balancers, latches, locks, cranks, weatherstrip and screens handled window by window — every item at its printed price on one written quote.
Each repaired window runs its full travel and locks tight while you watch, and everything is covered by a 5-year written workmanship warranty.
Window repair in Alpharetta starts at $115 and is priced part by failed part — one printed catalog across every WowFix metro, confirmed in writing before work begins:
Every repair comes with a written workmanship warranty. If it's not right, we come back and make it right.
We fix the part that failed — glass, seal, sash or hardware — so you keep your windows and skip full-replacement cost.
Your repair is done by our own technicians, never subcontracted — visits run on scheduled routes with a firm appointment date.
A clear quote before any work starts. No hidden fees, no upsells, no pressure to replace what we can repair.
Drag the handle to compare — swipe or tap a dot for more jobs.
We repair windows across Alpharetta — Windward, Glen Abbey, the Kimball Bridge and Webb Bridge corridors, the streets around downtown and Wills Park — and throughout the metro on scheduled routes.
In Alpharetta
Also in Alpharetta
Book your service today
No stock footage, no actors — this is one of our actual jobs. Watch a rotted, fogged-out window brought back to flawless, like-new condition.
Snap a clear photo of every foggy, cracked or stuck window in natural light. Morning light shows fog between the panes best and lets us quote faster — often before we arrive.
Jot down the symptom per window — fog between the glass, won't open or stay up, draft, cracked pane, or rotted frame. It tells us whether it's a glass-only swap (from $198) or hardware/wood work.
Move furniture, blinds and décor back roughly three feet so our crew can measure and work safely. It keeps the visit quick and your things out of the way.
If you have the original window brand, a sticker in the frame, or install paperwork, set it aside. It's not required, but it helps us match glass and parts on the first trip.
Unlock gates, secure pets, and clear the exterior path to the windows. Most glass-unit work is done from both sides, so outside access keeps everything one visit.
Decay cut out completely and rebuilt in real wood — no filler, no new window.
We fabricate an exact-profile piece from laminated lumber and splice it in.
New glass built to the window's exact size — frame and trim untouched.
The pane is the part that failed — so the pane is the part we replace.
A failed seal, not a failed window: the sealed unit is swapped, the frame stays.
Rotted bottom rebuilt on-site — a fraction of the ~$10,000 a new door runs.
Real jobs, real photos — swipe for more.
Lead Window & Door Repair Specialist
This content is written by Eugene Ko, a master craftsman with 17+ years of hands-on experience in residential and commercial window repair. Eugene has personally completed over 15,000 window and door repairs across North Carolina, so every answer here is grounded in real field experience — not guesswork.
Last updated: October 13, 2026