Fitting double glazing ourselves...

bar_1

Hi,

We are wanting to double glaze our whole house and replace the front and back door. We are on a budget so thinking about fitting them ourselves. Is this a job that can be done by those with very little knowledge of fitting windows?

Thanks

HugoSP

If you can get someone who knows what they are doing to help this would be a better option.

Fitting windows is not as easy as it looks for a novice. I've done a few now on various houses we've renovated and I'll be doing the remainder on our current project. I've even made new openings and fitted units in them.

But I got some practice in with a house where it didn't matter if I couldn't fit a window in a day when I started, you don't have that luxury.

When a friend of mine decided to replace all his steel windows with wooden ones about 14 years ago, he enlisted a joiner to make and fit his bay window, the most difficult one. He watched him whilst he did it and asked questions, then he just got the guy to make the other windows as and when he could afford to pay for them. Then he fitted them himself.

This may be a good route for you to follow, but if you earn a good hourly rate and can get some overtime, it may be worth working some extra hours on your job to pay for a fitter to do it.

Although I am perfectly capable of fitting upvc windows we actually got a fitter to fit our 8 tilt and turn units at the cost of another £800. It took him about 3 days on his own to do it. It would have taken me twice that long, and I was busy at the time tiling someone's bathroom, something that the fitter said he hated doing.

flang

Double Post:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=651737

bar_1

Many thanks for the advice, it looks like it would be a good idea to get the fitted professionally.

I was not aware we would need to have building regs involved.

Although I like to idea of watching them being fitted for future reference.