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Fibrex® vs Vinyl Windows

by Dec 18, 2013

Fibrex® vs Vinyl Selling Tactics of a Large Window Company

Fibrex vs vinyl is an important consideration when buying windows. Consequently, it’s critical to get accurate information to help you compare the two options. That’s what this post is about.

In their mailers a well-known company portrays vinyl windows as cheap, unreliable, and unworthy of your home. During high pressure sales pitches they lead you to believe vinyl is nothing more than recycled deck furniture. However, there are remarkable truths about Fibrex vs vinyl they WON’T tell you.

Fibrex vs vinyl windows mailer from a well-known supplier

I received this mailer from a well-known window supplier last week.

The Truth About Fibrex® vs Vinyl Windows

Truth #1 – The company we mentioned also makes vinyl windows

Unbelievably, the company we mentioned that makes, advertises, and sells Fibrex windows actually produces hundreds of thousands of vinyl windows every year. While their sales people trash vinyl other affiliates are likely pitching it. Really, does that make sense? What does it say about Fibrex?

Truth #2 – Fibrex is acually made from…

The base product in Fibrex® will likely surprise many of you. Get ready, a Fibrex® window is made from… sawdust. The window industry gives it fancy names like “wood flour” or “wood pulp,” but it looks, smells and feels like a pile of sawdust (maybe because it is). Those who use it combine a sawdust mixture with vinyl polymers to make their windows.

Wood Flour (AKA Sawdust)

Wood flour or sawdust piles used to make Fibrex windows

Wood Flour (AKA Sawdust)

A recycling container made from Fibrex

A Fibrex Recycling Container

Fibrex is also used in deck materials, trash receptacles, and recycling containers. I very much doubt that Fibrex® window makers use these images or descriptions to describe their windows, nor would they show their customers piles of sawdust! Clearly this a big consideration in the Fibrex vs vinyl debate.

 

Truth #3 – There’s a BIG cost difference

Fibrex® windows look nice and may be of good quality, but they typically cost three times as much as comparable vinyl windows. In fact, the average commission for a Fibrex® sales person is ridiculously high and can exceed $5,000. True!

Truth #4 – One has NO lifetime warranty

The last time we checked, the company we spoke of who uses Fibrex® places only a 10-year warranty on their windows. If these windows cost this much and are so good, why not make it a lifetime warranty like other high quality replacement window companies do?

 

Final Summary: Price and Value Make this an Easy Choice

Hopefully we’ve helped you better understand Fibrex vs vinyl. We admit that Fibrex® may very well be a great product and that it makes a nice-looking window. However, it’s simply not worth paying three times the price of a good alternative. Vinyl will last just as long and work equally well. Hence, we believe informed consumers should ask: why does a window made from recycled sawdust cost so much?

 

Enlargement of a Fibrex vs vinyl mailer from a window manufacturer

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