Warren Aluminum

Darrell Moore displays a sample of the screened or glassed-in rooms Warren Aluminum can install on any home. The rooms provide an outdoor experience while protecting against the weather or flying insects. (Charles W. Johnson photos)

Want to make the exterior of your house look like new and virtually eliminate painting and maintenance? Want to replace those drafty old windows with new, easy to maintain, energy efficient models? How about a new patio cover? Or maybe a glassed and screened enclosure where you can relax and enjoy the view without worrying about the weather or bugs.

Warren Aluminum, located at 848 Beersheba Highway right here in Warren County, can provide all this and more. Owner and operator Darrell Moore has been involved in the business for most of his life. He says the business itself has been around for 50 years or so.

“When it started out they were manufacturing storm windows and storm doors,” Moore said. “Then as the years went by, they got into the aluminum siding business, when aluminum siding came out.”

Eventually the company got into installation as well as manufacturing.

“Now we do everything from sun rooms, screen rooms, vinyl replacement windows, vinyl siding, and we still manufacture the storm windows and storm doors. About anything that can be done to the outside of a house we can do.”

Darrell’s parents, Jessie and Betty Moore, purchased the business from Sam Martin and Jack Burns, and then in 1995 Darrell purchased it from his parents and took over.

The company serves a large a large area in Middle Tennessee, including Warren, DeKalb, White, Van Buren, Grundy, Coffee and Cannon Counties, and has gone as far afield as Murfreesboro, Lebanon and Chattanooga.

Now Warren Aluminum mainly installs vinyl siding, since aluminum siding became virtually obsolete in the early ’80s.

“We can go in and take an old house that’s virtually falling down and completely remodel it,” Darrell said. “Make it look a lot better.”

The company can even do construction, and in fact is currently in the process of building a home. The company employs around six workers in the winter and up to 10 during the summer months.

The business has been very much a family enterprise for Darrell, who says he learned as he went along.

“Roger Johnson, who has been with the company for about 30 years, trained me on how to do the work, my dad trained me on how to do the sales and dealing with the public, and then my Mom has taught me how to do the book-work and how to run the business.”

Darrell’s mom, Betty, retired for a time, but is now back full time. Besides handling office duties, Betty builds and repairs storm windows and screens.

The company features Norandex vinyl siding and top-rated Simonton vinyl replacement windows. They are TVA approved on their replacement windows.

Darrell says he enjoys the business and really can’t imagine doing anything else.

“I like dealing with the public,” he said, “meeting different people. I’m my own boss. I’ve got my own hours, which there’s a lot of them, but in a have-to case I can take off if I need to.”

Darrell says he appreciates his loyal customers and all the repeat business over the years.

Business hours for Warren Aluminum are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Saturday by appointment only. They can be reached by phone at 931-473-2675.