Ball Park figure please, new windows.

4 bedroomed house, modern ish (18 yo).
Upvc or wood the way to go?
I have literally no idea if I am looking at £5k or £50k

Thank you.

 

It's around 4 years ago now but I had my house done, 7 windows, a set of French doors, front door with side panel, and finished in wood effect (which is more expensive) and I paid I think just over £3000

Edit: by wood effect I mean the darker coloured pvc which is classed as wood effect but in reality is just vaguely wood coloured, not the kind that actually looks like wood until you get an inch from it

 

Modern UPVC sash windows can look really nice. You can even get some with a wood grain effect, but you can’t tell either way unless you get up close.

Our windows (1st floor Edwardian flat) cost £12k, so for a full house I’d guess around the £20k mark. You can knock 25% off if you don’t need sliding windows.

 

Shop around would be my advise.
Huge savings to be had, someone like Everest for example will quote you around £15-£20k.
But you can get perfectly acceptable windows for a fraction of that.
All UPVC windows should come with a kite mark, so main thing to look for is internal beading(although hardly anyone does internal), quality of locking mechanisms, quality of fitting workmanship and glass.
Price of window will differ hugely on which glass you have.

 

It'll be expensive as pointed out above, they've all gone up. You'll get ripped off anyway, they'll claim all the materials have gone up during the pandemic. To piss you off even more they will have claimed all the grants from the government and worked throughout.

We've just had major work in our house, a couple of knock throughs, new kitchen, new dining room, moved radiators all over, patio doors in. The only bloke that wasn't a rip off was the builder himself but there and again only half of that will go through his books.

A quick edit: if you're not desperate for the work done l would wait until we're out of this pandemic and wait til everything settles down again.

 

We had similar work done 5 years ago - new kitchen and knocked kitchen / dining room into one big room. Wish I had done windows then when I had the dosh, but the kitchen went a bit over budget, hence looking at windows now.

The whole estate is about 18 years old so I guess there are about 25 of our house design. They obviously ordered the windows en masse, rather than measuring each house individually, so we were at the mercy of tiny margins and we have patches of damp around the frames now where they have 'filled'. That, and just generally poor hinges and seals.

An expense I could do without, but hey, probably cheaper than moving.

Thanks all.

 

4 years ago we had our house done Safestyle 14 windows ( no doors or patio doors ) UPVC white inside rosewood outside £6298

 

Had a 4-bed detached house, all windows replaced and a conservatory built for £10,000. Mind you that was in the mid 1990s....

 

I would reckon around £12k to £15k, but if you are comparing companies make sure they are quoting like for like. That is section, furniture particularly locks, laminated glass in patio doors, double or triple glazed. Make sure it is a good quality section like Veka or Linear. Because there are so many variables that's why you'll get big difference in quotes. The biggest bug bear though is the people who do the work. The big firms like Anglia and Safestyle use labour only subbies, so it's not the quality of products it's the quality of workmanship.

 

Between £4K and £9k.

uPVC windows are quite cheap to buy tbf. There’s some money to be made if you offer good service and turn the work over.

 

We had eleven windows done a year ago, just before the pandemic started, for around £3,500. Just plain white UPVC. The same firm did our french doors, and fitted a new composite door on the front for around £2,000.

 

Pay a bog firm, pay big firm prices. Everest, safe style are basically thieves. Ask em for a quote, sales guy will co.e out, measure up and start at a figure, say 13K, after saying no a few times youll be down to less than half of that!!

Anyway, im about to have a new composite front door with glass at the side, new 4 window bay, 3 bedroom windows, landing, bathroom and kitchen, anthracite outside, white inside, for 5K, (the bay and glass at the side of the composite has to be safety glass due to height also)
They have a uvalue of 1.4 (a rated is 1.6) so they are actually more efficient than a standard a rated window with secure by design as standard.

So shop around and dont be scared to say no!

 

Yorkshire Conservatories, Mapplewell,are very good and reliable. Modern double glazing, the glass cavity is filled with Argon? Gas and is so much warmer.

 

Exactly the same as you, were on a 10 year old estate and weve cheap windows bought in bulk. We went over budget, we had anthracite patio and now we need to change a window downstairs and front door to match. This attached door we had a quote for £1500.

 

We had a conservatory built last year, we had loads of different quotes and ended up going with JSS in Wombwell, one of the quotes we got was from solar frame in goldthorpe, the quotes we were getting from different company’s were ranging between £13k and £15k, solar frames came back at £25k, when I told the bloke about the other quotes he instantly knocked £10k off the his quote,

 

Had some fitted recently to a bungalow. 5 windows, patio door and a composite door. Cost around £3.5K I think.

Ask the fitter where they get their profile from as there are many different standards as I’m finding out with the carp ones I have at home. There’s always a bit of exterior noise audible even when they are closed and locked.

Other thing that affects price is number of opening parts so good to think about the actual design of each window.

good luck

 

You can get the frames and door coated to match for fraction of price

 

Only last week I had my holiday gaff wooden sash windows replaced with upvc sash. As you say they have the wood grain effect and look really good. Each window panel tilts so you can sack the window cleaner.