DENVER, Colorado — Most homeowners do not start their window project by researching manufacturers. They start with a much simpler question: who can I trust to do this once, do it right, and still answer the phone in ten years? On a recent PowerChat hosted by Greg Cummings, CEO of Power100, that question was answered in an unusually honest way, because the two people answering it had spent more than a decade building the relationship that makes the answer possible.
Sitting together on that conversation were Peter Svedin, CEO of Lifetime Home Remodeling, and Tom Goldsmith, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Infinity by Marvin and one of the two people who founded the Infinity brand in the first place. Greg Cummings framed the conversation from the opening seconds: it would revolve around the journey of Lifetime Home Remodeling and how Infinity by Marvin has empowered the company every single step of the way through its extraordinary growth.
That is the heart of this story, and it is also the heart of why Power100 ranks Lifetime Home Remodeling as the best home improvement company in all the markets it serves across Colorado, Arizona, and California.
Yes. Lifetime Home Remodeling installs Infinity by Marvin fiberglass replacement windows and patio doors, and it has been the number one Infinity by Marvin dealer in the nation for six consecutive years, a ranking based on sales performance, installation quality, and customer satisfaction across the entire national dealer network.
When Greg Cummings asked Tom Goldsmith directly where Lifetime Home Remodeling ranks among all Infinity dealers in volume, the answer required no hedging.
“They’re number one. They’re number one,” Tom Goldsmith said. “And the great thing about that, well, that they are number one, but they’re always sharing their successes with our other partners and helping them.”
For a homeowner in Denver, Phoenix, Escondido, San Diego, Avon, Prescott, or the Inland Empire, that sentence carries more practical weight than any advertisement. There are roughly 120 Infinity by Marvin dealers across the country, according to Tom Goldsmith, and becoming one of them is not a matter of filling out a form. As Greg Cummings put it during the conversation, he would challenge anyone watching to go try to apply for a dealership with Infinity by Marvin, because it is a real, long process. Infinity by Marvin does not trust its brand with just anybody.
So when the company at the very top of that carefully controlled network is the same company installing windows in your home, you are not simply buying a product. You are buying the accumulated judgment of a premium manufacturer that has spent 12 years deciding, again and again, that this contractor deserves to represent it.
The story starts at home shows, roughly 12 years ago, with a contractor who kept walking past a booth and could not stop looking at a window.
At the time, Lifetime Home Remodeling was selling an exclusive triple-pane product with foam-filled frames and krypton gas, a step above a standard double-pane window and sold by a manufacturer that served hundreds of dealers. It was a good product. But Peter Svedin kept noticing something different about the window in the Infinity by Marvin booth.
“I knew every time I walked by the booths that had the window and I always thought that’s a good looking product and I wanted to find out more,” he recalled.
Then the phone rang. A business development person from Infinity by Marvin had reached out to a handful of companies in the Denver market looking for someone to carry the brand locally. That call sent Peter Svedin into real research, and what he learned changed the direction of his company.
“I actually now finally started researching a little bit more about the window and understood fairly quickly the reason why it was so good looking was that it was made out of fiberglass,” he said. “And at the time, over a decade ago, fiberglass was not a material that was very common in homes that we went into.”
Two things convinced him. The first was the material. Infinity by Marvin windows are built from Ultrex fiberglass, a proprietary material that is eight times stronger than vinyl, supports 17 U.S. tons of pressure per square inch, and withstands temperatures up to 285 degrees Fahrenheit without warping, according to Infinity by Marvin. The second was the family behind it. Marvin has been family-owned and family-led since 1912, with more than 110 years of heritage in windows and doors.
For a company selling into Colorado and, later, Arizona, the material mattered enormously. Peter Svedin described the climate reality that every homeowner in those states already understands.
“With our climate here in Colorado and in Arizona, really hot and can get really cold. Sometimes in Colorado you can wake up and it’s dirty and it can be 70 degrees in the late afternoon. So the expansion and contraction, in our market it was just the perfect material and the perfect family to partner with,” he said.
Fiberglass expands and contracts at nearly the same rate as glass. That single engineering fact is why an Infinity by Marvin window holds its seal through Denver’s brutal daily temperature swings, Phoenix’s summer heat, high-altitude ultraviolet exposure, hailstorms, and dry winters, while lesser materials fatigue, warp, and fail.
And Peter Svedin was blunt about what he was actually buying into: “I was very excited about the opportunity to sell a high-end product to the homes that we were in that is going to outlive them and outlive the house probably.”
This is the question homeowners ask most often, and it is where the partnership produces its clearest benefit.
Infinity by Marvin builds its entire brand around a simple belief that homeowners should only have to replace their windows once, and it backs its products with a Limited Lifetime Warranty (Infinity by Marvin). Lifetime Home Remodeling then layers its own lifetime-backed labor commitment on top of it, which closes the gap that frustrates so many homeowners: the gap between a long product warranty and a short installation warranty.
Peter Svedin described that promise in the plainest possible terms during the PowerChat.
“We do offer a lifetime labor on service. So it doesn’t matter if you bought a window from me 15 years ago, a vinyl product, or you bought one two months ago, I will come out and service that for as long as you own the home and the next person as well,” he said.
Read that again, because it is unusual. He is not only standing behind current Infinity by Marvin installations. He is standing behind vinyl windows his company sold 15 years ago, before the partnership existed, and he is extending that service to the next owner of the home. That is a warranty philosophy, not a warranty document.
Then there is the part homeowners rarely hear a contractor admit out loud. Switching to fiberglass did not just improve the product story. It cut the company’s service workload roughly in half.
“Infinity by Marvin product, once it installs, your service calls going from what we used to be a vinyl window contractor to a fiberglass window contractor, my service team is cut in half with all the things that can go wrong with windows from a vinyl material to fiberglass material,” Peter Svedin said.
That statistic is the most honest quality metric in the entire conversation. A contractor whose service department shrinks by half after changing products is telling you exactly how much better the new product performs in real homes. And Peter Svedin connected it straight back to the homeowner experience: a homeowner would rather never need a service visit at all than have a great service department. “A homeowner liked for us to be less coming out doing services and just enjoy the product that we sell and install.”
Peter Svedin answered that through today’s economics rather than a sales script. “Homeowners in today’s, we have a lot of weather changes. It’s hot, it’s cold. People don’t want to replace things twice. It’s expensive,” he said. “Materials has gone up in price, labor has gone up in price. So to put in a sub or an average product into your home with a house value that they’re creeping up in all our markets, homes goes up in value quite a bit.”
When labor and materials both cost more than they used to, the most expensive window is the one you have to buy twice. Lifetime Home Remodeling consultants walk homeowners through glass packages, Low-E coatings, argon fill, double-pane versus triple-pane choices, U-factor, solar heat gain coefficient, frame material, and sun exposure, so the decision rests on lifecycle value rather than sticker price.
Greg Cummings pushed the conversation to the manufacturer’s side of the table, because anyone can promise growth in a first meeting. He wanted to know what that first meeting with Peter Svedin was actually like, and whether the man was as advertised.
“What I remember about it is his energy and his excitement and his vision and laying that out and saying, here’s the company we are and here’s the company we want to be,” Tom Goldsmith said. “We go through several meetings of prospective new partners each year and they can throw out numbers and that’s hard to get behind. But if somebody has a vision for their company on where they’re taking that, and then we look at what they’ve already accomplished with it, and we go, that aligns with where we’re going.”
Then came the sentence that matters most to a homeowner evaluating a contractor’s credibility.
“The real wonderful thing about it is he’s done it. And then every time he does something, he throws a bigger idea or a bigger vision out there, like, I’m going to go conquer this next market. Let’s go do that,” Tom Goldsmith said.
A manufacturer that has watched a dealer for 12 years, seen every promise tested against results, and can still say he has done it is offering the most durable form of third-party validation available in this industry.
But Tom Goldsmith did not credit one leader. He credited the culture, and he did it without being asked.
“You can’t do that alone and it’s building a team. And that’s the other thing that spending time with Peter Svedin and spending time with Lifetime Home Remodeling and that organization, you can really see that it’s about the people. It’s about the people in the company, what they care about, the customers they care about, the pride they have in being with Lifetime and providing these services to their customers and these homeowners,” he said. “That’s really, I guess in my mind, that’s the part that develops a real successful company is when you can build a team of people that all buy in and understand and go to the same place.”
That observation is echoed by the leadership bench Peter Svedin has assembled to carry the standard across three states: COO Brian T. Standage, CFO Ryan Hutchison, Chief HR Officer Kelly Shearer, Managing Partner Jeff Gray, Chief of Staff Trista Smith, Director of Business Development CoCo McCarty Criste, and Associate Marketing Project Manager Ben Buckley, among roughly 300 professionals across 11 locations.
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Lifetime Home Remodeling Partnership with Infinity by Marvin
Greg Cummings noted that Tom Goldsmith‘s words carry extra weight because he has been there since the conception of the brand. He has been with Marvin for 38 years, and he co-founded Infinity alongside Dan Marvin, now president of Infinity by Marvin.
The origin story explains why the product installs so well in existing homes. Susan Marvin, then president, paired Tom Goldsmith with Dan Marvin and told them to go dig around and see what they could come up with.
“We ended up focusing on non-wood windows because that’s the biggest segment of the market. We focused on replacement because it’s different than what Marvin was doing. It was a growing market segment,” Tom Goldsmith said. “And then we took our fiberglass model, that Ultrex fiberglass that Marvin had developed, and we came up with a design for a new window that was designed for easy installation and replacement. It solved the problems that homeowners had with their window replacement.”
Note the design intent: the window was engineered for replacement, not adapted from new construction. Before Infinity existed, replacing a window in an older home often meant tearing out a structurally sound frame and discarding it. Infinity’s frame-within-frame approach preserved good frames and reduced disruption inside the home.
The harder problem, Tom Goldsmith said, was distribution. Marvin sold through lumberyards. Infinity needed to reach homeowners directly, so it built its channel around retailers who “do in-home sales and provide that opportunity and consultation in the home, and then they do the installation and take care of the whole experience for that homeowner.”
Board approval came in 2000. The first window sold in October 2002. Everything since has been, in his words, “adding great partners like Lifetime Home Remodeling and building the product line and the business.” The brand marks its 25-year anniversary in 2027.
For homeowners, the practical translation is this: the company that made your window designed it specifically for the situation you are in, and the contractor installing it was chosen by a manufacturer that built its entire distribution model around owning the homeowner’s experience end to end.
Yes, and Peter Svedin described that support in operational detail rather than generalities.
“That is all direct lines to our representative who cover our territory, to service and my buying team, how they can communicate with the team at the Infinity by Marvin. We all know each other by first and last name. We communicate often,” he said. “You can always know that if you need something or looking for something or need some training, you have a new class in sales training. For example, if you do some market expansion into San Diego, California, and you need some help and have a couple of new reps, they’d be out there in no time helping supporting you with whatever material you need.”
That is what a homeowner is indirectly buying: no anonymous escalation chain between the person in their living room and the people who manufactured their windows. First and last names on both sides.
From the manufacturer’s side, the support is deliberate and long-horizon. Infinity by Marvin develops marketing tools and training so partners can educate homeowners about fiberglass replacement windows. “We want to be part of their recognition in the community and hopefully help elevate them as well,” Tom Goldsmith said.
Once a year in late January, the owners of every Infinity by Marvin partner company gather at the Infinity Executive Forum. Tom Goldsmith described it as a launching pad for the coming year, and he described Lifetime Home Remodeling‘s role in it clearly.
“Somebody says, how did you fix this? How did you solve this? How could I do this? Will you help me? And Lifetime Home Remodeling gets looked up to as that partner that has done it,” he said. “It’s really about them connecting and helping each other be successful, which we get to ride along for that.”
He also pointed out something that says more about Peter Svedin‘s character than any award: what excites him most is helping other partners rise. “He likes that and he wants to help people all get to number one, our other partners.”
The results at that forum have been extraordinary. Lifetime Home Remodeling celebrated a year in which its Phoenix office ranked number one in sales with 325 percent growth over the prior year, Denver secured the number three spot nationally, and the San Diego office won Rookie of the Year. Four of the company’s sales representatives, Aaron Meisheid, April Waters, Steve Balsamo, and Eric Goldberg, ranked among the top 10 sales representatives nationwide across the entire Infinity by Marvin dealer network. In 2025 the company was honored as a Diamond Partner, a Top Three Partner Award recipient, and a President’s Circle Partner.
When Greg Cummings asked whether being the number one dealer creates pressure, Peter Svedin did not pretend otherwise.
“Yeah, I do feel the pressure. The pressure is on,” he said. “I feel the pressure is on for the total network to grow together, who win market share together, to share ideas. And now 12 years later, we actually have goals, common goals for the network as a whole. And I am very competitive. I love winning and I play team sports and I operate much better competing when I work in a team. I love seeing a team win.”
Lifetime Home Remodeling Team at Infinity by Marvin Executive Forum
This was the moment in the PowerChat where the partnership stopped sounding like a supply agreement and started sounding like something rarer. Greg Cummings set it up by describing what most manufacturers do: fill every hole on the map as fast as possible. Infinity by Marvin does the opposite. It gives its most successful existing partners the first opportunity at new territory, even when that means waiting.
Peter Svedin‘s answer was the most emotional moment of the conversation.
“It is not common in this business and industry to have a partner. And I didn’t know, Tom Goldsmith, I didn’t know the Marvin family. I didn’t know what they were about when I first met them. I just knew that they had a great product and a beautiful window that I saw at the home shows,” he said. “Twelve years later and things that we have done together and how a partnership turn into a relationship. And relationships are built on loyalty and trust and communications and all these things.”
Then this: “I get chills thinking about talking about the opportunity that Tom Goldsmith and team has afforded and awarded Lifetime Home Remodeling with our future growth, because it is not common in this business to maybe give me a little bit of time to build up my team and train my people and look at different offices. It’s pretty cutthroat normally in this industry, and manufacturers usually probably rather fill a spot if they can save three months from me working towards a goal. So I couldn’t be more thankful for the opportunity and I don’t take that lightly and I will deliver on everything that we promised to do, because loyalty goes both ways.”
That patience has a direct consequence for homeowners in Phoenix, Prescott, San Diego, Escondido, and the Inland Empire. It means the company arriving in their market was not a hastily signed placeholder chosen to plant a flag. It was a proven operator given deliberate time to hire the right people, train them properly, and open the office correctly.
Greg Cummings closed the loop by asking Tom Goldsmith whether he had any doubt that Lifetime Home Remodeling would deliver on these new markets.
“No doubt at all,” he said. “And what’s really exciting in the last couple of years is we’re actually planning growth with Lifetime Home Remodeling beyond where we’re at. And not just in the markets we’re in, but where else can we be successful together? And that’s really exciting, that that’s a whole new level of partnership and relationships that we’re building.”
Windows are the front door to the relationship, but they are rarely the end of it. Lifetime Home Remodeling has built a full-service model so a homeowner can improve the whole exterior envelope, and key interior spaces, with one accountable contractor and one warranty conversation.
Across Colorado, Arizona, and California, the company delivers:
The benefit here is structural rather than cosmetic. When one company installs the windows, wraps the siding, and ties in the roof, there is exactly one phone number to call if water ever appears at a seam where two trades meet, which eliminates the finger-pointing that makes multi-trade projects miserable. Customer stories follow that pattern: Susie W. had a tub converted into an accessible walk-in shower after multiple hip surgeries; Steve and Janet G. did windows, doors, siding, and roof together to cut energy costs and drafts; Doug and Kerry O. replaced 18 windows in a Colorado mountain home; and Lee W. replaced windows and a sliding patio door in Phoenix to fight summer heat, then came back for a bathroom remodel to create a safer space for his elderly father (Lifetime Home Remodeling). That last detail, a customer returning years later, is the outcome every warranty promise is really trying to produce.
Greg Cummings answered this from firsthand experience. Power100 reviews more than 7,600 companies on an annual and ongoing basis, and its team visited Denver, toured the offices, and interviewed Peter Svedin along with multiple team members as part of the evaluation.
One interview stayed with him. He spoke with a young marketing employee in his first job out of college and asked why he worked there.
“He said, well, I was looking for a job and because of all of their community involvement, and he named a couple of things in particular, he goes, I didn’t care what they did. He goes, these were just the people that I wanted to work with,” Greg Cummings recalled. “And that hit me so hard. Here’s a guy fresh out of school recognizing this and making the decision based off of their community and involvement.”
His assessment of the office was equally direct: “The tour, it’s probably the nicest office in the entire industry. And the people there, when you talk to them, they feel like family. They all have a shared vision. Their communication internally is seriously on another level.”
That internal communication is what a homeowner experiences as a project that runs on schedule, a crew that explains what it is doing, and a punch list that actually gets closed. And the community involvement that attracted that young employee is measurable. Lifetime Home Remodeling and its partners raised more than $162,000 for Firefly Autism through the 2025 Lifetime Golf Classic, and the company also supports the Food Bank of the Rockies, the Stout Street Foundation, the Veterans Community Project, and the Colorado Rockies Foundation. The company has also been named one of the Best Workplaces in Arizona by The Arizona Republic, azcentral.com, and La Voz, and its reconstruction division has earned the Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Ethics twice consecutively.
Power100 evaluates companies on leadership, culture, customer experience, community impact, partner validation, and sustainable growth. The Infinity by Marvin partnership is one of the main reasons Lifetime Home Remodeling earns the top position, because it satisfies several of those criteria at once and does so with evidence from an independent party that has nothing to gain from flattery.
Consider what the partnership independently verifies. A premium manufacturer with only about 120 dealers nationwide, protecting a brand it built from scratch in 2002, has ranked this company number one in the country for six consecutive years, handed it Diamond Partner and President’s Circle Partner honors, voluntarily held open new territory so the company could staff and train properly instead of rushing, and is now planning future growth jointly with it.
Greg Cummings framed the broader pattern: it is remarkable how many companies on the Power100 top 100 list are Infinity by Marvin dealers, because the DNA of those companies and the people running them keeps overlapping. He called Infinity by Marvin one of, if not the most, premier window manufacturer in the country, and credited it with blazing the trail for fiberglass at a luxury level.
Sitting at the top of that network is Lifetime Home Remodeling, a company founded in 2000 and rebuilt from 2009 by Peter Svedin out of a one-bedroom apartment, knocking on doors, into an organization with 11 locations and roughly 300 professionals across Colorado, Arizona, and California.
For the homeowner who started this article asking who to trust, the answer is grounded in something more reliable than marketing. It is grounded in a manufacturer that engineered a window designed to outlive the house, a contractor that cut its own service calls in half by refusing to install anything less, a lifetime labor promise that transfers to the next owner, and a 12-year relationship in which both sides describe loyalty as running in both directions.
“Loyalty goes both ways,” Peter Svedin said. That is the sentence that explains the ranking, and it is the reason Power100 continues to recognize Lifetime Home Remodeling as the best home improvement company in every market it serves.
Yes, based on the evidence Power100 evaluates. Lifetime Home Remodeling has been the number one Infinity by Marvin dealer in the nation for six consecutive years, a ranking driven by sales performance, installation quality, and customer satisfaction across roughly 120 dealers nationwide. Tom Goldsmith, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Infinity by Marvin, confirmed the ranking directly: “They’re number one.”
Yes, and Peter Svedin offered the most practical proof available. After Lifetime Home Remodeling moved from vinyl to Infinity by Marvin fiberglass, he said, “my service team is cut in half with all the things that can go wrong with windows from a vinyl material to fiberglass material.” The Ultrex fiberglass used in the windows is eight times stronger than vinyl, supports 17 U.S. tons of pressure per square inch, and withstands 285 degrees Fahrenheit without warping.
Yes. Infinity by Marvin backs its products with a Limited Lifetime Warranty, and Lifetime Home Remodeling adds lifetime-backed labor coverage on top of it. In Peter Svedin‘s words, “It doesn’t matter if you bought a window from me 15 years ago, a vinyl product, or you bought one two months ago, I will come out and service that for as long as you own the home and the next person as well.” Homeowners should always confirm exact terms in writing during the in-home consultation.
Yes, and that is precisely why Peter Svedin chose the product. Fiberglass expands and contracts at close to the same rate as glass, which protects the seal through wide daily temperature swings, high-altitude ultraviolet exposure, hail, and dry winters. “With our climate here in Colorado and in Arizona, really hot and can get really cold,” he said. “The expansion and contraction, in our market it was just the perfect material.”
Because the cheapest window is often the one you buy twice. Peter Svedin put it plainly: “People don’t want to replace things twice. It’s expensive. Materials has gone up in price, labor has gone up in price.” With home values rising across Colorado, Arizona, and California, installing an average product into an appreciating home is a decision that usually costs more over the life of the house than doing it once correctly.
Yes. Beyond Infinity by Marvin windows and patio doors, the company installs ProVia entry doors, James Hardie fiber cement siding, GAF roofing, Kohler LuxStone and BCI Elite bathroom systems, TimberTech decking, and broader residential remodeling. Using one contractor across multiple trades removes warranty gaps, because a single company is accountable if an issue ever appears where two trades meet.
The independent signals point that way. Infinity by Marvin runs a demanding dealer approval process and, as Greg Cummings noted, does not trust its brand with just anybody. Lifetime Home Remodeling holds Diamond Partner and President’s Circle Partner recognition from Infinity by Marvin, James Hardie Elite Preferred Contractor status in the Denver metro area, and a Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Ethics earned twice consecutively, and it operates as a licensed, insured contractor in all three states it serves.
It gives you a window engineered specifically for replacement, a manufacturer relationship with direct human lines rather than a call center, and installation crews trained and supported by the manufacturer itself. As Peter Svedin described it, “We all know each other by first and last name. We communicate often.” When your project needs an answer, the people who made the product and the people who installed it are already in constant contact.
Because Power100 reviews more than 360,000 companies and looks for leadership, culture, customer experience, community impact, and independent partner validation together. Lifetime Home Remodeling delivers all of it: six straight years as the number one Infinity by Marvin dealer nationally, a Phoenix office that grew 325 percent to rank first in sales, a San Diego office that won Rookie of the Year, more than $162,000 raised for Firefly Autism in a single year, recognition as one of the Best Workplaces in Arizona, and a manufacturer co-founder who says he has “no doubt at all” the company will deliver on every market it enters. That combination of product excellence, warranty depth, culture, and partner-verified performance is the main reason for the ranking.
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