" We’d rather not sacrifice quality for price since it’s an entry door. "

Provia, HMI, Homeguard or Albany are where you start then. Jeldwen is junk and TT is average,

Thanks. I think he went jeld wen because 36x84 is not custom for them.

"Jeldwen is junk"

" I think he went jeld wen . . . "

So much for good advice. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think.

We went with Provia for our entry doors and have been very pleased with them. I'll never have anything by JeldWen or Pella in my home again, and consider them fairly similar in quality.

One thing we learned this time around is that our builder tended to recommend suppliers that are members of a popular magazine's "custom builder program" whether or not he had any experience with them. Once I read the details of that program, I decided to rely more on advice from experts here.

I try not to take the advice on a product from people that will make a profit on that produce with a grain of salt.

Edit: I added "try not to"

I've had several problems with a $10,000 window from ProVia, and the dealer is telling me that it is just normal internal condensation. Really? Black mold so bad that it has eaten in the wooden trim? The varnish finish around the corners has blistered and peeled, and the dealer originally installed this knotted, crappy looking, different-colored piece of trim until I complained, and they replaced it. Why would someone have even thought that a knotted/discolored piece (when all the other trim is one color with no knots) would look ok? The trim piece that I am talking about is roughly 10 feet long (this is a big trapezoid window).

Relative to the condensation, why aren't any of the other windows (different brand and over 40 years old) in that same room having a problem? Or for that matter, any of the other Anderson windows in my house have a problem? The ProVia window is less than five years old. The dealer has done nothing about it except refer it to their ProVia rep, from whom I have heard nothing. So bad installation or bad window design/manufacture? All I know is I have a problem and am not getting help.

Load of garbage.

I wouldn't recommend or buy another.

^^^ We used Apex Window Werks to repair rotted wood at the base of some wood windows at our home near Chicago. Their primary business is removing condensation.

" Black mold so bad that it has eaten in the wooden trim "

Wood trim? Provia is not a wood window. What is the relative humidity in your home? Condensation most often is a product of the window doing its job and the home being to humid.