ThermaStar by Pella is a brand of both new construction and replacement windows sold through Lowes stores across the country.
You’ll notice that ThermaStar windows are lot listed on the main Pella website. That’s because they’re trying a little bit of “have your cake and eat it too” type marketing. They want to product a low priced window for sale at Lowes, but they don’t want to lose customers of their higher priced windows. We’ll see how effective that strategy is, but big box stores can be a dangerous place for a manufacturer to operate.
The do have a separate site focused on Pella products that are available at Lowes stores and of course the ThermaStar windows are listed there. These are considered to be the lowest end products Pella makes.
Any nationwide manufacturer will typically offer different products on the east cost than they do on the west coast. The type of homes is different and the typical styles are different as well.
Here we’ll start with the east coast products. They are:
- ThermaStar by Pella Series 10 – New Construction Window
- ThermaStar by Pella Series 20 – Replacement Window
Once you’ve read through the differences here you’ll likely find that you may want to look at other Pella window models. These leave a lot to be desired and it’s clear that they’re designed for the bog box store market.
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What’s the bottom line?
You should buy something else.
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While most of what you’ve listed is fairly accurate, ThermaStar isn’t my favorite line of windows by far, it’s not listed on Pella’s website because it’s known as Encompass with their franchises. They are, quite literally, the same product in different packages according to my connection to Pella.
Hi Marc, thanks for sharing that. That’s just the kind of info folks are looking for and I wasn’t aware that they were the same option.
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