Any double Glazers on Here?

[gazman]

Hi all,

I'm looking at getting my mums house double glazed before I move out.

Just had Fineline round for a quote. After 4 hours the guy gave me a quote for £5300, this is for:

3 windows approx 1000 x 500
2 windows approx 1000 x 1000
1 window approx 1500 x 1500
2 windows approx 1500 x 1000

(Using their own Tricept make of PVCU windows)

A back door & a composite front door.

This come comes with their own 10 yr warranty & a further 15 yrs supplied by the Glass & Glazing federation.

Does this sound about right?

Thanks in advance,

Gaz.

[Gazza77]

Hi all,

I'm looking at getting my mums house double glazed before I move out.

Just had Fineline round for a quote. After 4 hours the guy gave me a quote for £5300, this is for:

3 windows approx 1000 x 500
2 windows approx 1000 x 1000
2 windows approx 1500 x 1500
2 windows approx 1500 x 1000

(Using their own Tricept make of windows)

A back door & a composite front door.

This come comes with their own 10 yr warranty & a further 15 yrs supplied by the Glass & Glazing federation.

Does this sound about right?

Thanks in advance,

Gaz.



To give you some perspective, we had front & back door, 10 * approx 1500*750, 1 approx 300*300 and 1 approx 500*500 fitted recently. Stone mullions were also fitted but not supplied as part of the fitting. Pilkington K glass and frames made themselves. 15 year guarantee. Cost £3250, but the company is in West Yorkshire so not a great comparison really. :rolleyes:

[454697819]

doesnt sound too bad at all imho..

Billy is a double glazing fitter (or was) drop him a PM.

Composite doors are pricey but it depends if you want to do it urself?

[Seggons]

That doesn't seem like a bad price at all. To know how good of a deal that is I would need to know the style of the windows (how many operners in each window and is it white windows), weather your having Georgian bar, diamond lead or normal plan glass and what style the front and back door is.

"This come comes with their own 10 yr warranty & a further 15 yrs supplied by the Glass & Glazing federation."

This personally surprises me because the place I work at can only offer 5 years on the glass. The reason for that is the in-between the glass is a bar that contains desicent balls to draw moisture out and we only get 5 years on the desicent that we use.

[gazman]

Thanks for taking the time to reply guys.

The windows are white PVCU (apparently PVCU is better than UPVC??) with plain glass & 10 openings between the 8 windows.

The front door is a entance esprit two. Made of GRP, with 2 glass panels & 9 point locking system (pas 24??)

The back door is just a single glass panel door.

Apparently the Tricept windows here (http://www.triceptwindows.com/tricept.htm) have a glazing bridge that stops moisture getting to the desicant spacer bar.

Cheers, Gaz.

[Seggons]

(apparently PVCU is better than UPVC??)

"First of all though: Question: What is the difference between PVCu and uPVC?. Answer: NONE.


All that happened is that in our country uPVC changed it's name to PVC-U in the late 1980's to fall in line with our European friends. It seems that they were all calling it call it PVC-U because European languages mostly place the noun (being PVC in this case) before the adjective (U)."

Kind fully borrowed from here. (http://www.thewindowman.co.uk/pvcu.htm)

What I'll do is I'll see if I can corner my boss tomorrow to see what he thinks about it. :)

[454697819]

there is a difference between virgin UPVC and recycled as the recycled can go brittle etc...

check the garantee as I had a 10 yr garantee.. when I looked closley, the ironmongery has a year, the glass 5 and the FRAMES 10... which i would expect being horiffic plastic....

[BoltonSte]

Gazza, which company did you use? I'm over in Bolton and we're looking at getting some windows and that doesn't seem half bad.

Sorry for the hijack.

Ste

[embee]

The only thing I'd suggest is try to find someone who will recommend a company. Price isn't everything.

In the spring I had a large upstairs bay window (6 panel) plus a couple of bedroom windows done. Because of potential problems with the bay, I used a local glazing company who I've known here for 25yrs and they do a lot of commercial/local authority work.

Nice thing is that there was no "selling" at all, just business-like measuring/surveying and a quote arrived next day. I actually asked if there were any "options", and they said no, that was the only spec they used, all the most suitable stuff in their experience (glass/frame/fittings etc).

They were not cheap, but the job was done extremely well, quite a tricky bity of levelling/fitting required because of the details of the bay, and the materials and fabrication is very nice quality. As the saying goes, the quality persists long after the cost is forgotten.

[gazman]

The only person that has been recommended (by my uncle in-law) works for a firm that is FENSA registered & a member of the Glass & Glazing federation has said he'd do it as a private job & is coming to give me a quote on Tuesday.

He uses Rehau extrusions (different to the one his firm uses - Tricept). I understand that that I'd have to get the work signed off separately & that I'd only get a small manufacturers warranty instead of a 10 or 25 year one. But my reasoning is that If a decent window is being used & installed by a competent guy (the fact that when he's working for his firm he's governed by FENSA & the Glass & Glazing federation.) Then I shouldn't need a 10 year guarantee?

Cheers, Gaz

[Seggons]

Guarantee wise:

The plastic itself: There's no much to really go wrong apart from a bit of discolouration if your really unlucky.

The locks/hinges on the window: If they are kept clean and lubricated they will last a long time.

The locks/hinges on the doors: Like above, if kept clean and lubricated they will last. As the seasons change you may find in time to come the door catches the locks on the frame. Depending on what hinges they use will depend on how easy it is to adjust the door.

Glass: This is a big hit or miss area, most of the time the glass will last and last. But on the odd occasion you might find a glass unit has broken down. It's sods law that if you don't have any guarantee then you'll get a broken down unit or two.

[tigersaw]

from experience:

A bad fitter can ruin a good window. Check all windows actually open, that the night latches work, the locks work. Check draining channels arnt blocked by bad fitting. Make sure the window is actually held in by frame bolts, not just mastic and foam.

White upvc can yellow after prolongued UV exposure. Leaded inserts can lift inside the sealed unit after prolongued heat/sunlight.

Check glass for roller damage, lines or kinks that are in the glass, not something that will polish out.