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35 minutes from our Arlington Avenue shop in Riverside, in Orange County, so we schedule this area in batches.
Every city on this list asks something different of a window job. Here is what changes the work in this one.
Anaheim's median home was built in 1973, but the number that defines the flatlands is the 1950s: 22.3 percent of the city's 110,705 housing units date from that decade, the building wave around Disneyland's 1955 opening, with another 15.3 percent from the 1960s and 23.1 percent from the 1970s. Only 46.2 percent of homes are owner-occupied, the majority are rented, so a good share of Anaheim window decisions are made by landlords rather than by the people who live behind the glass.
Residential permits come from the City of Anaheim Planning and Building Department's Building Division, 200 S. Anaheim Blvd., and window and door replacements in existing openings require a building permit. Applications go through the city's Online Permit Center. On a property under a Mills Act contract, exterior door or window replacement is listed in the municipal code as an exterior alteration that the Planning and Building Director must approve. In Anaheim Hills, Fire Hazard Severity Zone status should be confirmed first, since the city reported the 2025 CAL FIRE maps would add about 300 acres there.
Anaheim's real review layer is historic, not HOA. The city has four designated historic districts, Anaheim Colony (1997), Five Points (2004), the Historic Palm District (2006) and Hoskins (2008), and its preservation plan argues for repairing original wood windows rather than replacing them with vinyl. Anaheim also recorded 239 Mills Act contracts in the 2000s, third in the state, and those homes need Director approval for window replacement. Anaheim Hills, built to a master plan, is where conventional association review is more likely.
Utilities and code in Anaheim
The U-factor and SHGC limits are the Title 24 numbers for Climate Zone 8. They are printed on the NFRC label of every unit we install, and we hand you the paperwork at the end of the job.
If your street is not on that list, we still come out. The list is a guide, not a boundary.
The closest other cities we cover, with the drive time to each from our Riverside shop.
Anaheim is really three window markets, and they do not share much beyond a city hall and a utility.
The first is the flatland tract city of the 1950s building wave around Disneyland’s 1955 opening. More than a fifth of Anaheim’s housing went up in the 1950s alone, and those houses are now around seventy years old. Because most Anaheim homes are rented, a replacement there is often a landlord weighing a whole building or a whole portfolio. We write the scope so an owner who does not live there can see opening by opening what is being replaced and why.
The second is the old town. Anaheim was founded in 1857 by fifty German-American families as a vineyard colony, and the city now protects four historic districts: Anaheim Colony, Five Points, the Historic Palm District and Hoskins. The city’s own preservation plan is blunt that old windows are too often “sacrificed in the name of energy efficiency” and argues that original wood windows can usually be repaired and can last more than 100 years. On top of that, Anaheim recorded 239 Mills Act contracts in the 2000s, third most in California, and the municipal code names window and door replacement as an exterior alteration that the Planning and Building Director has to approve on those properties. So in the Colony we start by asking whether the house is under contract or in a district, say plainly that the city’s preference is repair, and plan any replacement around that approval rather than around our install calendar.
The third is Anaheim Hills, the master-planned eastern hills. Canyon Fire 2 burned into its neighborhoods in October 2017 and destroyed homes there, and the city reported that the 2025 CAL FIRE maps would add about 300 acres of hazard zone in the same hills. Here the questions are fire zone status, association approval and view glass, which have nothing in common with a 1950s tract a few miles west.
One more local detail: Anaheim Public Utilities is the only municipally owned water and electric utility in Orange County, so electric service here runs through the city rather than through Edison.
We do not publish a price list, because replacing every single-pane aluminum window in a 1950s flatland rental and matching a handful of openings on a Mills Act house in the Anaheim Colony are not the same job. Our cost pages break down the factors behind a quote, and a free in-home measure turns them into a number for your house.
We measure every opening, tell you what is worth doing first, and leave you a written number. No obligation.