double glazing firms - guarantees - bankruptcy

andl10108

i'm also thinking of double glazing. the company is certass approved instead of fensa..
which i assume is better than FENSA?

Thanks for your input.

moonrakerz

That is the trouble, a normal warranty/guarantee is only as good as the firm that issues it !

My mother had her garage re-roofed several years ago, she got an insurance based warranty supplied with the job. So if the contractor does go bust she still has a warranty on the roof.

fizzlebottom

When we had the back of our house doubleglazed 4 years ago we had it done by our local council (remember councils replace their own housing stock and you can order the quality you require) We thought it was a safer bet as the council will always be there. Did a brilliant job and very high quality windows installed. Will probably use them again if we ever scrape enough money together to pay for Huge bay windows and Stained glass bathroom.

kbh4031

andl10108 wrote: »

i'm also thinking of double glazing. the company is certass approved instead of fensa..
which i assume is better than FENSA?

Thanks for your input.

Fensa & Certass are the same kind of thing, a upvc company will register with one of the companies, which enables them to self certify that the job will be completed within building regulations ect ect.
The only difference is that Certass is a newer company and much cheaper.

As for Fensa & Certass giving guarentees they dont.... the company should have taken out seperate Insurance Backed guarentees. Our company uses IPWFI - www.ipwfi.co.uk , which gives our customers a 10 yr guarentee on thier windows, should our company cease to trade.
OP it may be worth you giving these a call to see if the company in question used to be one of their members

sashman

FENSA and Certyass are similar in that they self certify so you avoid the local building control route.

However for those of you thinking about avoiding problems whwen a company goes bust, then consider the GGF Glass and Glazing Federation. If one of their registered companies goes bust they are required settle any claims.

www.ggf.org but not all companies are members, (only 600 or so out of 10,000 installers) because they have a vetting policy, need three years healthy accounts and charge for membership (but they are there when companies fail).

sashman

andl10108

Thanks for the reponse.
I feel better in knowing that certass is similar to FENSA. and will make sure i recieve a insurance backed gurantee.
The company i'm using is a local one called Advanced Glzing Systems which only deal with the kommering range. Although not the cheapest i felt this is slightly better is quality than eurocell and synerjy which other companies were offering.
If anyone has used this local company before can you let me know if you would recommend them?

And thanks to everyone for your help.