Double Glazed windows quote, any good?

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On saturday we have a local company visit to give us a quote on new windows. All in all there are 10 windows front and back and 6 are large and the others are small. They initially quoted us £3995 but after some promotion they are running and a bit of haggling we got him down to £3090. Is this any good?

Cheers in advance
 
I fitted 5 windows myself, 2 big, 2 medium, and 1 small custom made due to non standard size. The Materials and Windows came to about £900. So I'd say thats a good price, for twice as many windows plus somebody to fit them for you.
 
Sounds decent. Have a shop around though to get an idea for the average price in your area.
 
anticonscience said:
I said, you buy one, you get one free.
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A mate at work had safestyle round and they quoted him £11000 for windows and doors for his house, which refused :) then over a period of 3 weeks he had numerous calls dropping the quote from £11k to 8k and then 6k and the final figure of £4500 which he accepted, how can they justify charging so much.
 
We've had two quotes for our windows from different companies and the quites were very close to each other...

Front:-
Two large (must be around 6ft'ish wide) and one bathroom window - Just over £2000.

Back:-
Three large - Around £2300.

Also:-
Sliding patio doors about £1300.



One of them is coming around again this week. They've been working locally for many many years, and have the same staff fitting windows - ie: not just people hired in for the week. I'd rather pay a bit more for a reliable trustworthy job TBH.

We'll see what we can get them down to though.
 
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that quote is very good. My gran has paid £1500 for just two large windows & frames alone. Other quotes were upwards of 3k. For 10 windows that's great. I assume you are getting frames included too?
 
amaru said:
A mate at work had safestyle round and they quoted him £11000 for windows and doors for his house, which refused :) then over a period of 3 weeks he had numerous calls dropping the quote from £11k to 8k and then 6k and the final figure of £4500 which he accepted, how can they justify charging so much.
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I worked for a short time at a commercial window manufacturer. Their markup was at least 50% and that was after a 10% (buffer markup on materials and mistakes etc)

I'm led to believe home window companies have a larger profit margin.
 
amaru said:
On saturday we have a local company visit to give us a quote on new windows. All in all there are 10 windows front and back and 6 are large and the others are small. They initially quoted us £3995 but after some promotion they are running and a bit of haggling we got him down to £3090. Is this any good?

Cheers in advance
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Not too bad similar quote to ours which was Two big Bay front windows, two smaller front windows, three small-medium side windows, three large back windows ( 6 foot) and a new patio door.

We had quotes of £5000+ but the best was just under £3000 and it is a decent local company.
 
Miguél said:
Not too bad similar quote to ours which was Two big Bay front windows, two smaller front windows, three small-medium side windows, three large back windows ( 6 foot) and a new patio door.

We had quotes of £5000+ but the best was just under £3000 and it is a decent local company.
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Wow! That seems good!
 
Miguél said:
Yeah - we already had a new front door put in when we moved in and he said that makes a big difference. They've done it all in 4 days too which isn't bad going.
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Well, I mentioned above, we seem to be having less windows done than yourself and the total is over £5000.

Two of the front windows are pretty big! They have a full height opening panes at each end with a big solid pane in the middle with a top opener at the top of this pane too! We have another of these at the rear too...

Seems like over £5000 for our windows is on the high side!
 
Here's some example prices we've been given with our best quote (excl vat):-

Figures are width x height = price for PVC / price for Aluminium

Kitchen 2400x1050 = £585 / £887
Bedroom 2400x1200 = £599 / £894
Bedroom 1800x1100 = £481 / £712
Lounge 2400x1100 = £585 / £887
Patio sliding door 1800x2070 = ? / £1300

How do those sort of price compare to other folks?


Definately prefer the look of aluminium (smaller frame) but it's a fair wack more!
 
Sounds in the right ballpark. We have 2 very large front windows, 2 medium ones at the back and 2 smaller ones at the back. Including new front and back doors I think ours came to £3200, they did it in less than 2 days. Safestyle wanted 7 or 8 grand I think?

Went with a local firm in the end, the 3 other quotes we had after Safestyle were all £3-£4k
 
Just get a quote from another company.

Oh, and one piece of advice: if they advertise on TV avoid them like the damn plague.
 
NeilFawcett said:
Here's some example prices we've been given with our best quote (excl vat):-

Figures are width x height = price for PVC / price for Aluminium

Kitchen 2400x1050 = £585 / £887
Bedroom 2400x1200 = £599 / £894
Bedroom 1800x1100 = £481 / £712
Lounge 2400x1100 = £585 / £887
Patio sliding door 1800x2070 = ? / £1300

How do those sort of price compare to other folks?


Definately prefer the look of aluminium (smaller frame) but it's a fair wack more!
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That seem about right, though the ali price seems high, thats normally 30% more


The profit margin on domestic replacement windows is about 30%, but that sounds better than it actually works out.


It is hard to give an opinion on wether a price is reasonable because no one know the specification what locks, what glass and what extrusion(frame)
 
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