Double Glazing - Again!

littlejaffa

we had 3bed house incl 1 bay (no doors) fitted in scotland by a local co for about £1,900 this included wood interiors (they sorted & paid the joiner incl in this price) - great work eithic and finished quicly tidying behind them as they went very happy to recomend if your anywhere near glasgow drop me a pm and i'll send you over their details.

cpu

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Hysteria has now set in. This windows buying lark has made me cross the line now and my sanity has gone.

Been out all day today going round windows places and one thing I was shocked to see was that in every case (some worse than others) the windows looked poorly made to me around the mitred corners. The salesmen just shrugged and said it wasn't an issue. Obviously that's just the way they look (and they aren't actually poorly made), as I wandered round people's houses when I came home and they were all the same too. I expected the top and the side of the window to meet exactly at the corner but they dont, they all seem to have an area that looks like a bead of sealant has been applied between the two edges. Some of these areas were really quite wide (and rough) and I expected a lot better for the money. I'm obviously far too fussy.

I was also surprised to see that the hinges used on the better quality doors were a disgusting shade of orangey/brown and nothing like the antique oak effect of the door itself. Even the saleman admitted it was a very poor match. Everything looks great in the brochures until you see it in real life.

(If you see a slightly balding dodgy looking character staring at your house, don't panic, it's probably just me checking our your windows! :rotfl: ) Thanks again for the replies, it's a shame I'm not near Glasgow otherwise I would definately be glad of contact details of other firms to try.

marky_b_2

Katmc2k wrote: »

hello

i'm not going to be much use i'm afraid but when i got my windows fitted a medium sized local company were by far the cheapest and still made the windows completely to order with oak inside and brown upvc on the outside. (9 windows, each 3mx90cm for £4k) For this i had been quoted twice as much by a rude, condescending, national firm who still phone and harrass me even though i told them another firm had fitted them a year ago. their representative also lied to me telling me that they used UPVC which was of a higher quality than PVCU (the other firm used this) but they are the same thing...!

anyway, sorry (rant over) if you want to go for the large firm you should be able to haggle your way down on price if you haven't tried this already? i don't know about custom 22, but i wouldn't think its much of a problem. mine were made to measure but even with that there needed to be a bit of alteration of the openings. in an old house like mine the window gaps were not perfectly sqaure and so even the most perfect made to measure ones were a bit off. the filling of the gaps was done very professionally and aren't noticable and don't let in extra noise/cold. if your house is newer its more likely that the windows will be nice and square.

oh and i now this is rookie advice but ask to phone a previous customer of the company, this was valuable in my experience. i phoned two (both in my street!) and went round to see them which was great.

if you are in scotland/glasgow i can recommend the company i used. otherwise sorry if i haven't been much use... but i enjoyed my rant at the start

Hi Katmc2k, I am in east kilbride and would be grateful for the name of the company that done your windows.

Thanks