Slim-frame aluminum windows in a warm interior

Aluminum Windows · Raleigh, North Carolina

Aluminum Windows in Raleigh.

Thermally broken aluminum windows for the wave of new construction across Raleigh and the Triangle, glazed to cut solar heat through a long humid season and built to hold a seal through the occasional ice storm that catches newcomers by surprise.

In short

Raleigh's new-construction pipeline is moving faster than local window supply can keep up, so Crateworks locks a low-SHGC, thermally broken aluminum spec before ground breaks and confirms the lead time against your build schedule instead of the other way around.

Built for Raleigh’s climate

Raleigh sits in IECC climate zone 3A, warm and humid enough that a window's solar heat gain coefficient matters nearly as much as its insulation value, and the air conditioner runs from April into October. The bigger local wrinkle is who is buying: a large share of Triangle homebuyers relocated for tech and research jobs around RTP and are building their first Southern home without the local instinct for what a summer here does to a house. Add the occasional winter ice storm, rare but real, and a frame has to hold its seal through a hard freeze as well as a humid summer. A low-SHGC glazing package on a thermally broken aluminum frame covers both ends of that range.

Climate zone
3A warm-humid
Best time to spec
year-round
What we plan for
humid summers, heavy rain, and occasional winter ice

Why it suits Raleigh

Timber sash swells and sticks in a Carolina summer, then the same wood contracts and gaps once an ice storm brings a hard freeze behind it, fighting the swing in both directions. Aluminum with a polyamide thermal break does not move with either one. Because so much of what is going up right now is new construction across Cary, Apex, and the North Hills corridor, going direct lets a builder standardize a spec across a dozen openings instead of pricing custom frames one at a time, so window walls and taller openings that would price out room-by-room fit into the same delivered order.

Container-direct delivery into the Raleigh-Durham Triangle.

How it ships to Raleigh: Freight lands at the Port of Wilmington or the Port of Virginia at Norfolk, then an overnight truck run into the Triangle.
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How it works

  1. 01

    Send your scope

    Drawings, a materials list, or a rough idea. No account, no obligation. Just tell us what the project needs.

  2. 02

    We source & spec

    We match products to your climate and local code, then price them factory-direct from vetted suppliers, not off a distributor's shelf.

  3. 03

    One delivered quote

    The whole schedule comes back as a single coordinated quote, delivered to Raleigh. One order, one point of contact.

One source for the whole project

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Common questions

Zone 3A humidity and a long cooling season make solar heat gain coefficient the number that matters most here, and a standard retail window is not glazed to that spec. We confirm the SHGC target and frame rating for your address before you order.
A polyamide thermal break keeps the aluminum frame from moving as the temperature swings from a humid week into a hard freeze and back, which is the actual stress an ice event puts on a window seal.
Yes, a builder running a dozen openings across a Cary or Apex subdivision gets one standardized spec and one delivered order instead of pricing each house separately.
Local supply and installer schedules are already stretched by the pace of Triangle construction, so ordering ahead of your framing date protects the schedule better than ordering against it.

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Spec aluminum windows for Raleigh.

Send drawings or a rough scope. We quote the Raleigh delivered price, all-in.

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