UPVC exterior doors help please

firrybabe

I'm currently trying to source some upvc doors (I've got a someone to fit them I just need the doors) and was pointed in the direction of the B&Q website as they currently have a sale on.

Has anyone any experience of purchasing their doors from B&Q ?

I'm after a front door with some glazing with it, and 2 solid upvc doors for my side building. I also need frames, locks, handles, cills etc.

Does anyone know of anywhere else that's worth me looking at for my doors ? On the flipside are their any companies I should steer clear of ?

Thanks in advance

Dee123_2

I'm sorry I cant answer this but I will be following the thread with interest. I posted a similar query a few months back but got few responses.

A doorstep salesman from a well known company told me a few weeks ago that I will not find a decent door for under £500 unless I go to B&Q or Wickes, etc, and if so, the door will qualify for FENSA registration, in which case if I wanted to sell my house, I would have to replace it before the sale. Surely this cant be true?

alanobrien

Dee123 wrote:

I'm sorry I cant answer this but I will be following the thread with interest. I posted a similar query a few months back but got few responses.

A doorstep salesman from a well known company told me a few weeks ago that I will not find a decent door for under £500 unless I go to B&Q or Wickes, etc, and if so, the door will qualify for FENSA registration, in which case if I wanted to sell my house, I would have to replace it before the sale. Surely this cant be true?

Door and window quality varies.
Take a look at the FAQ here for more information.

http://www.windowstoday.co.uk/double_glazing_10faq.htm

The fitting of doors and windows these days has to be done by a FENSA registered company who must provide you with a certificate to state that it has been done to the required regs.

The alternative is that you can DIY but you will still have to get a certificate from your local council building control.

more info here

http://www.fensa.co.uk/what.html


Just more red tape and cost to the homeowner as usual

robowen

@firrybabe
We need to encourage more people to declare their location on this site. How can anyone help you if they don't know where you are ?
I have a few people you could try , but not sure where you are !
Why can't your fitter can't supply them ??
B&Q stuff is usually mass produced rubbish and the quality is compromised. Plus they only have a few standard sizes and the frames are not re-enforced.

@Dee123
I got my front door from a company at trade prices. Single door (composite - looks like wood(white) with bevelled glass and 2 side panels (small glass panels)for £1100.

@alan
Excellent info ! (as usual !) :j
However...if you are gonna stay in the house...D.I.Y... nobody is gonna enforce these ridiculous regs. Tell them they were fitted a few years go....who's gonna know ? :whistle:

Or you can D.I.Y them and then get building control to come and take some cash off you for nothing ! and they will give you a certificate !

rob

ioscorpio

Copied from FENSA website

In a contract to supply doors, which have less than 50% vision area of glass, do we need to register this with FENSA and supply information?

As the U value performance of the doors with less than 50% of their area glazed is not a Building Regulation requirement for dwellings there is no need to certify. If in doubt whether Part L2 applies, please your local Building Control Department.

alanobrien

robowen wrote:

@firrybabe
@alan
Tell them they were fitted a few years go....who's gonna know ? :whistle:
rob

My thoughts exactly, wasn't going to say that though :rotfl:

I can see safety value in corgi and even some (grudgingly)
in part P but the need for a certificate to stick a plastic window into a brick hole is beyond me.

Luckily, these rules are ridiculous and unworkable except with new builds of course which is a good reason for not buying one

plumb1_2

Most of the new rules are from 2 Jags Prescot,what a plonker he is,I,am all right jack man if ever there was.

firrybabe

I'm in Cumbria.

I didn't know that building regulations applied to getting doors fitted I'd assumed you could just fit them and that was that really. I'm going to have to investigate this a little more I think.

Cheers for the insights and info