Last reviewed October 31, 2026.
A neighbor hands over the paperwork from a renovation a few years back, and the window line reads Marvin Integrity. The showroom talks Elevate and Essential. Marvin’s own website lists five collections and never mentions Integrity at all.
Nobody is wrong. Marvin has reshuffled its names, and once you can translate them, comparing quotes gets a lot easier.
From Signature and Integrity to five collections
In an April 30, 2019 announcement, Marvin folded its separate brands into three collections. Signature held the Ultimate and Modern lines, along with the products formerly called Marvin Contemporary Studio. Elevate took over the products formerly called Integrity Wood-Ultrex, and Essential took over Integrity All-Ultrex.
Today the collections page drops the Signature label and lists five names side by side: Ultimate, Modern, Vivid, Elevate and Essential. Vivid is the newcomer, missing from the 2019 lineup. Marvin pitches it at transitional to contemporary houses and says it is sold in select markets, so ask a Long Island dealer whether it can be ordered here before you fall for it.
What each Marvin collection is made of
Descriptions come from each collection’s page on marvin.com.
| Collection | Inside | Outside | Notes from Marvin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ultimate | Pine, Douglas fir, cherry, white oak or mahogany | Extruded aluminum cladding, or natural wood on select products | 19 aluminum colors, three of them pearlescent |
| Modern | Aluminum | High-density fiberglass | Marvin pitches it at modern architecture, with Direct Glaze windows in custom sizes up to 12 ft wide by 8 ft high |
| Vivid | Fiberglass-reinforced composite | Ultrex fiberglass | Large maximum sizes, select markets only |
| Elevate | Pine, bare or factory finished | Ultrex fiberglass | Six exterior colors, including Stone White, Bronze and Ebony |
| Essential | Ultrex fiberglass | Ultrex fiberglass | Same six exterior colors, four interior colors |
Marvin claims Ultrex is “8x stronger than vinyl” and expands and contracts at a rate close to glass. Those are the manufacturer’s own claims, not independent test results.
Elevate puts real wood on the inside, ready to stain or paint, and fiberglass on the side that takes the weather. Essential trades the wood for a lower-maintenance interior. Ultimate sits at the custom end of the range, with the most wood species and product types, down to lift and slide and multi-slide doors.
How the 2026 Marvin warranty reads
Marvin’s Limited Warranty, effective January 12, 2026, covers Ultimate, Modern, Vivid, Elevate and Essential bought from an authorized Marvin dealer. The terms that matter most for a house:
| Part | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Insulating glass seal, panes up to 60 sq ft | 20 years |
| Stress cracks in non-tempered glass | 10 years |
| Hardware and other non-glass parts | 10 years |
| Standard aluminum cladding finish | 20 years |
| Standard fiberglass cladding finish | 10 years |
| Factory wood interior finish | 5 years |
| Factory composite or coated aluminum interior finish | 10 years |
The warranty is fully transferable, so it follows the windows to later owners. It does not pay for removal, installation, finishing or disposal. It also excludes problems from installation that does not follow Marvin’s installation instructions, industry best practices and applicable building codes.
Marvin also says it does not guarantee how much argon stays in the glass over time. Claims start with the dealer, within 60 days of the defect showing up.
The one-mile salt water clause
This is the part of Marvin’s warranty a lot of Long Island buyers should read twice. Standard aluminum cladding installed within one mile of a sea coast or other salt water source is covered for 10 years against corrosion and loss of adhesion, not the usual 20. Anodized and specialty finishes lose their coverage there entirely.
Hardware gets the same squeeze. Near the coast, only stainless steel and PVD finishes carry 10 years of finish coverage, and every other hardware finish goes unwarranted.
If your house sits near the Sound, the bays or the ocean, that clause is a reason to ask about fiberglass exteriors and stainless or PVD hardware. The fiberglass cladding finish section has no separate one-mile clause, although the warranty’s general corrosion exclusion still leaves out damage from salt, sand and other corrosive substances except where the warranty says otherwise.
For storm exposure, Marvin says select Ultimate and Elevate windows and doors come with impact ratings, including Impact Zone 3 products built for coastal codes. Our hurricane prep guide covers the rest of the house.
Infinity by Marvin, a separate route
Marvin also sells a replacement-only line called Infinity by Marvin through a network of independent partners. Marvin says Infinity products carry a limited lifetime warranty for as long as you own your home, which is a different deal from the collection warranty above.
On Long Island, Infinity’s partner page lists NSE Windows as Long Island’s exclusive Marvin Certified Installing Retailer, with showrooms in Hauppauge, Massapequa and Water Mill serving Nassau and Suffolk. NSE starts with a free in-home consultation.
Where Long Island buys Marvin
Besides NSE, Riverhead Building Supply displays Marvin at its design showroom at 1093 Pulaski Street in Riverhead and lists Marvin installed sales plus Marvin service and repair there. Its Southampton showroom on Powell Avenue also shows Marvin. Marvin’s dealer locator on marvin.com is the way to check for other authorized sellers, and buying from an authorized dealer is a condition of the warranty.
Neither Marvin nor any Long Island seller we found posts per-window prices for Marvin. For what Long Island companies charge for fiberglass and wood windows generally, see our window replacement cost guide, and get at least two quotes that name the collection, glass package and exterior finish so they can be compared line for line.
