Dan The Window Man started with humble roots
- Chris Abbott
- Mar 26
- 2 min read
Chris Abbott
Editor
Dan The Window Man’s origin story is about ‘a local little guy… winning one customer at a time.’
“He (Dan Verschoor) was in his teens, first operating as a window guy out of a pickup truck,” said Greg D’Hulster, a Norfolk business partner with Dan The Window Man, which has been in business serving South Western Ontario since 1989. “He went to somebody’s house to install their windows, and a little five-year-old kid answered the door… ‘Mom, Dan The Window Man is here!’ That’s how the name happened.”
With a factory in the Brantford area since 2005, they service communities like Brantford, Simcoe, Tillsonburg, Cambridge, Kitchener, Ohsweken, Delhi, Townsend, Waterford, Jarvis, Port Dover, Vittoria… and the list is still growing.
“We’ll go anywhere, but primarily Brantford, Oxford, Norfolk, and a lot in Ohsweken.”
D’Hulster is the ‘home show specialist’ in the company, and he was at the recent Norfolk Home & Lifestyle Show at the CIBC Auditorium in Simcoe, Feb. 28 to March 2, organized by The Simcoe & District Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with Caradoc Townsend Mutual Insurance.
“Sit and chat with people, and try to drum up some business,” said D’Hulster, who also works for Norfolk Community Living, and helped expand Dan The Window Man into Oxford County and Norfolk.
“This (Dan The Window Man) I can do in evenings or weekends, and work around my schedule. It was supposed to be for a few years, but here we are – 21 years later I’m still doing it,” he smiled.
Canadian owned and operated, Dan The Window Man manufactures their own Energyguard © brand of windows, with their own installers. The products are custom tailored to customers’ unique specifications.
In addition to replacement windows, they sell and install a full line of entrance doors, storm doors, patio doors, and garage doors, as well as siding, soffit, fascia, sunrooms and eavestroughs.
For more information see their website at www.danthewindowman.com. They can be reached at 519-429-2176 (Simcoe) and 519-842-7450 (Tillsonburg).
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