DavidG

Baffling! All rather surreal when you have more information than they might know too!

What window manufacturers do you work with out of interest @craig?

Thank you for this @tuftythesquirrel, not overly encouraging, but sadly not too surprising either. I'm usually the other side as I do Architectural Design myself, so I have been the one battling the errors. This time it's for me and it all feels rather different somehow! Still no movement with Internorm whom I have asked to quote, so I'll give them another nudge. Feels ironic that if these companies sent out one really good quote on day one then their wasted time would be taken right down at their end and there wouldn't be people like us having to get 10 quotes from 10 companies just to make sure that we're not ripped off!

No separate figures for the installation, but as I said all we need is for them to be sealed externally. I actually don't want them to do anything internally as I'm insulating after they have been installed, so I thought it would be an easy project for them. It's baffling that none of the 'big boys' seem to have got it right yet given the number of comments on various pages here and elsewhere. If one of them got it sorted we would likely all flock towards them!

Not sure if that's aimed at me or @renovator123? If it was a question for me then Gloucestershire. Good to see the GBS comparisons, I'm speaking with them at the moment.

Thank you for the responses folks, much appreciated and very enlightening. I have had a quote back for Rationel (no mention of 3G) for two windows at just shy of £5500 (incl VAT).....these are to fit into sash windows openings, which are roughly 1.5m2 each, so I'm apparently looking at around £1835/m2..........so a little higher than I was anticipating. I appreciate the economies of scale involved here, but to put this into perspective I had also requested a three part bay window (just under 4m2) and another three sashes, so the total area was around 11m2. I have since been told by the supplier that they cannot offer the Rationel window system for the bay (????) so the quote to do the other windows in this system becomes somewhat useless. Beyond this, as it is part of an EnerPHit rebuild of our house I have specifically stated that I simply want them just weather sealed (no internal works for them at all) as I will be internally insulating the solid brick walls myself. To me it seemed like we could have had an amazing price as they have none of the finesse work that is usually needed. Not quite sure where to head next, but certainly time to do some more shopping around - can I approach another Rationel supplier or would I just be directed back to the same local agent? We have any Internorm agent not too far away, so they feel like the next logical step.

Hello all, New here, so be gentle! 🙂 I'm trying to set up for an EnerPHit project on our house here and am really struggling with the windows. Having found this site through searching for this type of issue I found a fantastic chart by @Visti to compare the prices vs Uw values for a multitude of suppliers. It's really interesting to see, however as it's now nearly 5 years old I wondered if anyone has created an updated version at all? After many months of wrestling I have a quote for some Rationel windows and it's alarming to say the least and I can't think that it's simply gone up by that much in 4-5 years. I have had a scout through more recent posts, but could find anything.

Hopefully so, it needs all the TLC I can throw at it as it last had some love in the 1950's and it started life in the 1700's. Three bedroom semi-detached that is long past needing a complete refresh. Single glazed at the back, 'double' glazed at the front using non thermally broken aluminium, so we also have waterfalls at this time of year through condensation!

Hello all, This site has popped up a number of times and I've finally joined to bend some ears on things for our EnerPHit project here. David