Anglian patio door quote

peediedj

i recently bought 6 foot pation doors from wickes for £320 nd builder fitted for £300 good doors and job

thebaldwindowfitter

peediedj wrote: »

i recently bought 6 foot pation doors from wickes for £320 nd builder fitted for £300 good doors and job

are people not reading the posts properly these days the quote was for a arched french door not a patio door this has also been posted by ormus.in any case windows and door from wickes do not compare to bespoke items fitted by a reputable double glazing company .they are massed produced to standard sizes thats why they are so cheap

peediedj

a6windows wrote: »

are people not reading the posts properly these days the quote was for a arched french door not a patio door this has also been posted by ormus.in any case windows and door from wickes do not compare to bespoke items fitted by a reputable double glazing company .they are massed produced to standard sizes thats why they are so cheap

sorry?/ do u not read thread title,it says"patio door" not french door:rolleyes:

thebaldwindowfitter

roastduck wrote: »

Hello all,

We had the Anglian saleman around to quote for a doub panel fench patio door in our victorian terrace house.
sorry your right peediedj but i read the above in the post ie - roastduck wants arched french patio door.you are not comparing like with like :rolleyes:

Sailor_Sam

Many moons ago i worked as a DG salesman for Everest, terrible thankless job, nobody wanted you knocking on their door, i hated it.
However the quotes we gave were the price in the catalogue. Any extra discount came as a personal thing out of our commission, because there would be times we needed to get our sales figures up.
We were paid commission only, and got 15%, and at the end of the year, if you were still there you got an extra 2.5%.
Poster 27col, you say about the big companies charging more because of what the reps are paid. If their commission is compared to what a shop adds when they sell an item, then it must be cheaper to buy from a rep.
Have i explained that right ? do you know what i'm trying to say.
Just a final thought, there is a difference in quality, although it's expensive i still think Everest is top of the range.

chewbacca1

roastduck wrote: »

Hello all,

We had the Anglian saleman around to quote for a doub panel fench patio door in our victorian terrace house. The quote is £3900:eek:, and it is after thier "discount". Part of the reason why it is expensive is because our openning is curved which convienently added approx £900 to his quote. Because it is curved, they only can do the grade A or B grade glass which is much more expensive.

A day after the visit, the local branch manager called up and i politely decline the offer citing cost & credit crunch etc. He immediately knocked off £900. I said i will think about it and speak to my wife.

Had a quick look in the forum, mix feelings Anglian. I do think thier products are of certain quality.

Anyone has any experience of anglian and their knocked down price? Are there any hidden charges? VAT for example?

I have yet to get a local company around.
Would the local company be able to provide product as good quality as Anglian?

That price is frightening! i would have thought it should be around the 2k mark, the arches & shaped dg units are not cheap.

There knock down price is one of the oldest in a DG salesman handbook as i think sailor sam might agree with me. *Let me just ring my boss ect ect*

Please dont think that smaller companies are going to use an inferior products in actual fact most of them will use a better profile & better ironmongery. Larger national companies have major overheads! they have professional buyers who have to cut down on there spending & that normaly means looking at their biggest cost... the glass. the profile & the locking system.

I certainly am not saying they all buy cheap products to increase margin but they are a bit more focused on cost cutting. A smaller company would have the freedom to but what frame they want & you could actually specify what profile you want, they my use Kommerling or rehau or veka 99% of the time but you have heard from a friend or family that Profile 22 or swish or selcta are the bees knees so the smaller compies will know of a manufacturer that he could buy the profile or the frames ready made.

If you want to use someone off the tv will alot of schemes, offers & extended
Guarantees then expect the high price that is available for a *knock down* price but only if you sign tonight

or you could buy local in which ever town you are from and you may just get a price with an idea of when they can fit & you can normally get hold of the owner if anything went wrong.

There are pro & cons to using both, my number 1 advice would be ask around friends & works mates & see who done their homes. If you see someones house in your street that looks like they have a had a great job done then give them a knock and ask, iwould take it as a compliment if someone knocked on my house to say how nice my windows are & where i got them done.

just my own opinion hope it helps

27col

Sailor Sam. Thanks for the information. It is always good to get input from people in the business. So if the money is not going to the reps, as you say, then it must be the cost of the advertising that is pushing up the price. I sympathise with any one who works on commission only. I could not do it. I have trouble selling raffle tickets.

ormus

i agree that the two items are not exactly alike. but the general prices details are still correct.
as for anglia supplying a high quality product as agin other suppliers only, dont make me laugh.
re commission sales only. i knew a kitchen salesman (commission only) who was on minimum 500 quid per kitchen deal. (average small kitchen was 5k).
on larger kitchens he was getting 25%. nice work on a 25k kitchen!
DG works in a similar fashion. this gives you some idea of the money you are throwing away.

Primrose

We were happy with our Anglian double glazing replacement windows and probably paid a little more than we should have because our previous bitter experience was with a smaller company who went bankrupt on us in the last recession and we couldn't get faults rectified. So this time around, we played safe and went for a bigger company. I recommend you get at least two other quotes, and I also would be suspicious of a company who could knock £900 off a quote at the drop of a hat. That isn't being very honest up front and giving their customer a fair deal, is it? My only caution would be to check out very carefully the financial status of whatever company you decide to go with. Because of the current state of the building industry generally, I suspect a lot of companies associated with it are running on a very tight financial wire and if you have to pay a deposit up front and they then go bust, you won't get your money back.

Basil1234

Primrose wrote: »

We were happy with our Anglian double glazing replacement windows and probably paid a little more than we should have because our previous bitter experience was with a smaller company who went bankrupt on us in the last recession and we couldn't get faults rectified. So this time around, we played safe and went for a bigger company. I recommend you get at least two other quotes, and I also would be suspicious of a company who could knock £900 off a quote at the drop of a hat. That isn't being very honest up front and giving their customer a fair deal, is it? My only caution would be to check out very carefully the financial status of whatever company you decide to go with. Because of the current state of the building industry generally, I suspect a lot of companies associated with it are running on a very tight financial wire and if you have to pay a deposit up front and they then go bust, you won't get your money back.

any company can go belly up just because there larger doesn't mean diddley squat look at mfi if they hadn't had management buyout they would be down the pan!
Also any major purchase always always shove it thru the credit card and if you receive nothing the CC company refunds you especially at those sort of prices.