Window Replacement in Preston Hollow, Dallas

Preston Hollow isn’t a single-era neighborhood, and that shows up in the windows we get called out for. A big share of the area’s original homes — the Mid-Century Modern, Colonial, and Georgian estates that made Old Preston Hollow one of Dallas’s most architecturally significant neighborhoods — were built between the 1930s and 1960s, and many still carry their original steel casement windows. Those windows are part of what makes the architecture special. They’re also now 60 to 90-plus years old, well past any reasonable seal or hardware lifespan.

At the same time, walk a few blocks and you’ll find a very different story: teardown lots and new-construction rebuilds, part of an ongoing wave that’s replaced roughly half the original ranch-style homes in parts of the neighborhood over the last 15 years. Those homes are exactly the kind of premium project where homeowners are specifying manufacturer-tier glass, oversized doors, and architectural details to match a brand-new build. Two very different reasons to call us, on the same street.

Underneath both stories, the same ground-level issue applies: expansive clay soil that swells and shrinks with the seasons, moving foundations as much as 1 to 3 inches a year. In Preston Hollow’s oldest homes that’s decades more cumulative movement than a newer suburb has had to absorb.

Preston Hollow sits inside the City of Dallas, so window replacement here follows Dallas rules rather than a suburb’s — which for most like-for-like projects means no permit at all.

The neighborhood’s split between 1930s–1960s estates on original steel casements and new-construction rebuilds means we quote two very different jobs, sometimes on the same block. If you’re comparing replacement windows across the city, our Dallas service area page covers Dallas as a whole.