ES Windows
Open the patio wall on a February afternoon and the living room runs straight out to the pool. Legacy is drawn with narrow frames, so what you see is the glass. The multi-slide door can pocket into the wall and leave the opening clear, and the window wall runs floor to ceiling with very little metal crossing it. Every Legacy system has a thermal break, an insulating strip inside the aluminum. The frame and the glass together are what keep a room like that comfortable in August.
Legacy frames are narrow, the panes are large, and every system is built to the opening you have, with tracks and uprights made to your layout. Four things change once the glass is in.
Sightline is the width of aluminum you see beside the glass, and Legacy keeps it narrow. On the window wall that band is about as wide as two fingers. Panels can be set one above another to reach the ceiling, so one whole wall can be glass from the floor up, with thin frame lines across it.
The multi-slide door runs its panels along tracks, and it can pocket them inside the wall, so there is no door standing in the opening at all. It also opens from the middle, and it turns a ninety degree corner. The bifold folds its panels back against each other and clears the opening.
Stand by a west wall at five in the afternoon in August and you can feel what a window is doing. The insulating strip inside the aluminum keeps the hot metal outside from touching the metal indoors. The glass is SB70 insulated, with argon in the gap, a heavy gas that slows the heat down.
A house near Highway 111, or under the flight path, gets quieter with laminated glass. That is two sheets bonded around a clear plastic layer, and it makes a pane much harder to get through as well. ES offers laminated on every Legacy product, and tempered glass comes standard, heat treated so a broken pane falls into blunt pieces instead of shards.
Legacy is four doors and two window systems, and every card says which opening it suits. Prestige is ES's other line, and here it covers very large fixed glass, large sliding and folding doors, and a pivot entry door. Read the card that matches the opening you have.
Legacy sliding and folding doors
ES-LG850
ES-LG450
Legacy swing and pivot doors
ES-LG525
ES-LG550
Legacy windows
ES-LG225
ES-LG250
Prestige
ES-P300, ES-FX4017 and ES-FX3050
ES-SGD2020, SGD2020T, SGD1010T, ES-BF5010T, ES-46T, ES-PSD5030T
Four things ES lists for Legacy. Each size and U-value belongs to one product and one glass build, so read them that way.
Four things happen before a number goes on paper. On an aluminum job the order matters.
Four questions a Legacy order turns on, each with the figure behind it. These are the ones your architect or contractor will ask about, and the full table sits underneath.
Panels combine, so an opening can run much wider than one panel. The multi-slide door takes panels six feet wide and ten feet tall. One fixed window wall panel goes six feet wide and twelve feet tall, and the pivot door reaches the same height. Fewer panels means fewer uprights crossing your view, and more weight for the opening to carry, so the header and the floor get looked at early.
On the multi-slide door the aluminum beside the glass is a little over an inch, and on the window wall a little over an inch and a half. A swing door and a pivot door carry more, because a door leaf has to hold a lock and take the slam. The bifold lands in that same range, depending on whether it takes the E3 or the E4 hardware.
The doors land close together, and the fixed window wall goes lower than any of them, because a window that never opens has no track to seal. Each figure comes off one glass build, so we confirm which one before your order goes on a drawing.
A two-track multi-slide sits on a sill about four and a half inches deep, and a third track pushes it past six and a half. That depth has to be built into the floor and the header, so it gets settled before framing.
Legacy first, then Prestige. Sightline is the width of aluminum you see beside the glass. On the Prestige sliders the figure in that column is the interlock, the band in the middle where two panels overlap.
| System | Largest size | Sightline | Frame depth | U-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES-LG850 Multi-slide door |
72 by 120 in, or 84 by 108 in | 1 1/8 in | 4 3/8 in on two tracks, 6 9/16 in on three | As low as 0.27 |
| ES-LG525 Thermal swing door |
48 by 120 in single, 96 by 120 in double | 3 3/4 in | 4 1/2 in | As low as 0.27 |
| ES-LG550 Pivot door |
72 by 144 in | 4 3/4 in | 4 1/2 in | As low as 0.26 |
| ES-LG450 Bifold door |
Not printed | 4 11/16 in with E3 hardware, 5 3/16 in with E4 | 4 1/2 in | Not printed |
| ES-LG225 Window wall |
72 by 144 in one panel, 60 by 120 in when panels are joined | 1 9/16 in | 4 1/2 in | As low as 0.19 |
| ES-LG250 Casement and awning |
42 by 72 in or 36 by 84 in casement, 72 by 36 in awning | 2 1/2 in | 4 1/2 in | As low as 0.26 casement, 0.27 awning |
| ES-P300 Casement, awning, fixed |
57 by 96 in | 1 3/4 in fixed, 3 3/16 in project-out | 3 in | Not printed |
| ES-FX4017 Fixed panel |
60 by 120 in | Not printed | 4 in | 0.288 |
| ES-FX3050 Frameless window wall |
97 1/2 by 192 in | None between panes | 3 3/8 in | Not printed |
| ES-SGD2020 Slider, pockets |
72 by 120 in, or 60 by 144 in | 2 in | 4 3/8 in on two tracks, 10 9/16 in on five | 0.57 |
| ES-SGD2020T Slider, thermally broken |
60 by 132 in impact, 84 by 156 in non-impact | Not printed | Not printed | 0.34 |
| ES-SGD1010T Slider, pockets |
Not printed | 1 1/8 in | 16 13/16 in on a five-track cast-in sill | 0.333 |
| ES-BF5010T Bifold |
42 in panels to 120 in high | Not printed | 5 in | 0.77 |
| ES-46T Swing door, out-swing |
41 3/16 in single leaf | Not printed | 4 1/2 in | 0.44 |
| ES-PSD5030T Entry door, pivot or french |
90 by 96 in, 72 by 120 in, or 60 by 144 in | Not printed | 5 in | Not printed |
Every figure here is printed by ES and tied to the system beside it. A U-value comes off one glass build, not off a whole line. ES prints two U-values for the ES-LG225, so the page carries the higher, less favorable one. Exact numbers vary by configuration, and Not printed is where ES prints nothing.
Thirteen photographs from ES's own library, not from houses we installed. Open any one to see it full size.
Six we get asked at the counter.
Yes. A pivot entry on its own, or one slider across the back of the house, is a normal job for us.
People often start with the opening that bothers them most and come back for the rest a season later.
The wall onto the patio, or the front entrance. Those are the openings doing the architectural work in a house.
Legacy is drawn for houses built around glass, where the openings are large and the view is what you bought the house for. On a standard retrofit with ordinary openings it is more door than the house needs, and we say so when we measure.
ES lists nine standard colors for Legacy. Clear, Black and Bronze Anodized, plus Black, Champagne Bronze, Birchmount Grey, Synchronicity Beige, White and Silver. Seven woodgrain finishes sit beside them, from Mahogany and Nogal to White Oak, Pine and Olive. Hardware comes in black or satin.
The painted colors are finished to AAMA 2605, the standard ES specifies for its architectural aluminum paint.
If your association restricts frame color, we put the color and the finish on the application to its architectural committee and file it for you. The part we cannot speed up is the committee.
No. Not every ES product has to be ordered with impact glass, and we can order ES products with standard insulated glass instead.
The glass option worth asking about here is laminated, and ES offers it on every Legacy product.
Not on its own. The Coachella Valley is Climate Zone 15, and an aluminum job goes to a Title 24 consultant who models the whole house, with the walls, the roof and the glass counted together.
ES publishes low U-values on Legacy, which help the model. It gives no solar heat gain figures, meaning how much of the sun's heat the glass lets in, and the model needs that too. So we line the consultant up early and file the forms with your permit application.
We warranty our installations for a year and stand behind our work. Typically manufacturers would offer a limited lifetime warranty or 10 year warranty on their products (you would need to refer to each manufacturer for their respective warranties).
On ES the printed term covers the finish. Kynar paint is standard on Legacy, and ES gives that finish a 10 to 15 year warranty. We get the terms for your order in writing before it goes in.
Our office files the manufacturer claim for you and books the repair. You call the same number you called to order it.
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Family owned in Palm Desert since 1986, CSLB 906636, and our own W-2 crews on every job from Palm Springs to Indio. We pull more window and door permits than any other company in the Coachella Valley, and we are an authorized ES Windows dealer. Bring your elevation and we will tell you whether this is the line for it. Showroom at 75-100 Saint Charles Place, Monday to Friday, 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM. The phone is (760) 773-1053.
