Four Seasons Donates Sunroom to Needy Family on ABC-TV's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

HOLBROOK, NY – Four Seasons Sunrooms, North America's premier sunroom, conservatory and window manufacturer, was a key contributor to an episode on the top-rated reality television series "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" on ABC-TV. The episode will be broadcast on Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 8 p.m. ET

Four Seasons donated its popular Elegant Living Sun and Stars sunroom and two floor-to-ceiling glass walls for the project to help a deserving family. The homeowners on ABC's Emmy-award winning "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (now in its eighth season) always have a heartening story. Heroes, community leaders, and a plethora of inspirational families are truly the heart and soul of the show. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition truly knows the meaning of the saying, "Home is where the heart is".

"We are extremely grateful for Four Season's willingness to contribute to such a wonderful community project. It is because of the generosity from businesses like Four Seasons that 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' is able to continue helping deserving individuals," Diane Korman, Senior Producer, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition".

"Four Seasons is honored to provide one of its world-class sunrooms for "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition", James Ruppel, marketing director for the sunroom and window manufacturer said. "It was our honor and pleasure to be able to help this deserving family and bring some light into their lives. Shows like this help illustrate what hundreds of thousands of homeowners around the world experience every day: extraordinary year-round outdoor living, indoors, in climate-controlled comfort, 365 days a year."

The sunroom provided for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is only one of the more than 30 different models in the company's most comprehensive line of Patio Rooms, Sunrooms and Conservatories. The company offers thousands of different configurations in framing materials as diverse as aluminum, vinyl and natural wood.

Four Seasons Sunrooms are year-round glass room additions largely because of their exclusive, proprietary sunroom glass: CONSERVAGLASS SELECT™ with Stay-Clean Technology. "We recognized long ago that it's the performance of the glass that most impacts the owner's sunroom satisfaction," Ruppel said. "The founders of the company set out to ensure that they could deliver a glass room addition that could be heated and cooled just like any other room in a home. Four Seasons is justifiably proud of the fact that we have been setting the standard for year-round glass room additions for nearly 40 years."

CONSERVAGLASS SELECT™ with Stay-Clean Technology excels in all the categories important to homeowners, including maintenance, energy efficiency, safety, strength and longevity. CONSERVAGLASS SELECT™ helps keep Four Seasons' room additions warmer in winter and cooler in summer, and its advanced construction techniques promise a lifetime of outstanding performance and low maintenance.

Energy Efficiency:Outstanding R-Value For extreme applications, CONSERVAGLASS SELECT™ has R-Values as high as 7.7 in triple-glazed units and are 100% higher than the competition's standard double-glazed glass, keeping sunrooms warmer in winter.

Relative Heat Gain: CONSERVAGLASS SELECT™ Blocks 85% of the Sun's Solar Heat! ConservaGlass Select's™ Relative Heat Gain as low as 29 on some of its triple-glazed glass ensures a sunroom can be effectively cooled in all four seasons. Even its double-glazed roof glass has an outstanding Relative Heat Gain of only 39.

Maintenance: Windows that Virtually Clean Themselves The exterior coatings on CONSERVAGLASS SELECT™ are not magic, but they're close to it. Using a patented coating process, invisible, durable and permanent coatings of both silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide are applied to the outside of the glass, permanently keeping the glass cleaner longer.

Transferable Lifetime Limited Warranty: The Best in the Industry Four Seasons Sunrooms' CONSERVAGLASS SELECT™ is warranted to continue to perform well for a lifetime. CONSERVAGLASS SELECT™ is covered against any manufacturer's defect for the lifetime of the Four Seasons Sunroom. This warranty covers not only the original purchaser, but is transferable to future homeowners, ensuring Four Seasons Sunrooms maintain their value.

"The outstanding characteristics of ConservaGlass Select, ensure that Four Seasons Sunrooms can be used in any room application imaginable," Ruppel said. "From pool enclosures like this one on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, to family rooms, dining rooms, kitchen additions, bedrooms, home gyms and home offices – the applications for a Four Seasons Sunroom are limited only by your imagination".

Four Seasons manufactures and ships the premier year-round glass room additions, sunrooms, conservatories and patio enclosures; replacement windows and doors; patio covers and carports; screen and porch enclosures; wood and aluminum pergolas; and retractable awnings to over 300 independently owned and operated franchises, dealers and company owned and operated locations worldwide. Four Seasons has been setting the benchmark for quality and innovation at competitive prices that other companies aspire to achieve for over 35 years.

The Emmy award winning reality program "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," now entering its 8th season, is produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding. It's executive-produced by Brady Connell and George Verschoor. David Goldberg is Chairman, Endemol North America. The show airs Sundays from 8:00-9:00 p.m., ET on ABC.