Replacement window labor cost

[dillon]

Typically, what does it cost to have a contractor install replacement windows and wrap the brick mold (labor only). I have 9 average size double hung and 1 larger combination window that I want to replace with vinyl. The prices that I have been hearing are all over the map.

[hawgchaser]

I'll just speak form my experience of having put in several hundred windows over the years. Replacing windows can be like remodeling bathrooms...you often don't know what you'll find until its too late to back out. I've put identical windows in the same home and had one take me 45 min. the other take me 4 hours. What I would suggest is talk to the contractors and ask them to account for the wide variations in cost. It could be that the higher estimates addressed structural or cosmetic problems that the cheaper estimates didn't account for. If such was the case, the final bill from the lower estimate could have considerable expensive surprises. I've come to the place where I'll give an estimate, not a quote, and will explain what I base that on and what conditions could vastly affect that. I try to give a best case/worst case scenario. If the contractor can't stand up to the questions, you probably don't want him anyway.

[crothmeier]

Where I'm at most guys get around $150 for a single, averaged sized window on the main level. It goes up from there if its two story, or a big window, ect.