Window replacement costs in Shreveport

Shreveport's housing reaches back: roughly 19 percent of the Shreveport-Bossier City metro's homes predate 1960, per Census data. Paid work that disturbs paint in any house built before 1978 falls under EPA's lead rule, and pulling out an old window is exactly that kind of work.

Louisiana hasn't taken that program over, so EPA enforces it here itself. That rule lets small jobs on homes built before 1978 skip the lead-safe work practices as minor repair if they disturb 20 square feet or less of exterior paint. Window replacement can't use that exception, no matter how small the job. EPA does draw one line worth knowing: swapping a sash by unscrewing hinges or releasing it from a jamb liner doesn't count as window replacement under the rule.

The weather here is a little different from south Louisiana's. Caddo and Bossier parishes are in climate zone 3, labeled hot-humid on the national map, one step cooler than coastal parishes such as Cameron and Plaquemines, which are zone 2.

The state code is about to change. Louisiana's next cycle puts the 2024 editions of the international codes into effect on January 1, 2027.