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Howwww much for French doors?!?!

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Compash · 24/09/2024 12:52

AIBU to let out a few salty words when getting a quote for ordinary white uPVC French doors and being told £3,000?! 😱

Is this what they are now (in S Wales)? We were asking around before covid and getting quotes of half that - I suppose it's our own fool fault for not acting then...

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ShaneFulorgy · 24/09/2024 14:41

Rainbowshine · 24/09/2024 14:16

@ShaneFulorgy How did you sort out the building regs and FENSA when you did the work yourself please? Interested as we need to replace some bifold doors which will be £££££ to have installed

We just didn't bother. We have no intention of selling our house, so there was no point. When our kids come to sell the house when we're dead, they can buy an indemnity policy for the installation if they have to.

Coulditbeperimenopause · 24/09/2024 14:38

I was quoted £2k for just a front door, bargain for 2 of them!

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Compash · 24/09/2024 14:37

OrwellianTimes · 24/09/2024 13:44

South Wales, paid £1600 for sliding French doors in January this year. Basic, no frills, but sturdy and run very smoothly

Ooh... anywhere near Cardiff? 🤔

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Compash · 24/09/2024 14:36

Viviennemary · 24/09/2024 13:21

Patio doors seem to be a lot cheaper. But French are nicer.

I hope I'm using the right terminology? We're wanting two that open out like a normal door, but all glassy and with those fake Georgian criss-crosses in (the windows are all like that). Not slidey-acrossy (had a bad experience with some that stopped sliding)...

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Compash · 24/09/2024 14:34

FloydWasACat · 24/09/2024 13:20

We had some fitted last week, around £5000, SE England

Crikey... mind you, I know there's a premium in your part of the world...

Though we have found ourselves in a 'naice' area, and I swear they add a 0 to quotes because of this, assuming we are all rolling around in a bath of diamonds...

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Compash · 24/09/2024 14:32

Totallyexhaustedandperplexed · 24/09/2024 12:57

I know right!! We were quoted £4.5k for french doors in white uPVC in the SouthWest. It annoys me because about 8 years ago I had some put in my old flat for £950. How on earth did everything get so expensive??

Oh sweet lord!!! 😱 You know, you watch these property TV programmes, and they say 'It's £5k to build this extension' and you say 'How?! How is it?!' We're just tarting up an existing extension and we've already had to pay £2k to insulate and put verges on the roof, then we'll need screed and LVT on the floor... with the doors as well, you wonder if it would have been cheaper to knock the extension down and build a new one...

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Rainbowshine · 24/09/2024 14:16

@ShaneFulorgy How did you sort out the building regs and FENSA when you did the work yourself please? Interested as we need to replace some bifold doors which will be £££££ to have installed

ShaneFulorgy · 24/09/2024 14:13

Why not do it yourself? It really isn't as hard as you think. We were quoted £1900 for a new double glazed front window (it is fairly large though), we went online and found we could buy a new triple glazed window for £1100 and fit it ourselves, so that's what we did. It took us a day and a half but most of that was removing the old window. We just watched some youtube tutorials, bought some glazing tools off of ebay and went for it. It came out brilliantly and we have since gone on to fit 4 other new windows ourselves and a new front door, which was quoted as £2k fitted. We got a new composite glazed front door for £780 and that only took about 5 hours, start to finish.
The company we used is modernupvcwindows.co.uk They were really helpful with how to measure properly and gave us masses of advice on how to do this ourselves.
Next year we will be doing our french doors and kitchen window and then that is our house done. If you want any advice on having a go, feel free to message me and i'll help where I can 😊

Notmyfirsttimeinthismadhouse · 24/09/2024 13:56

I'm currently complaining about kitchen fitter costs on another thread but our upvc French doors were £1800 two years ago and we're in Surrey. Sliding/patio doors were more expensive.

FloydWasACat · 24/09/2024 13:54

Mind you, the gap they had to fill was quite large replacing broken bi-fold doors

OrwellianTimes · 24/09/2024 13:44

South Wales, paid £1600 for sliding French doors in January this year. Basic, no frills, but sturdy and run very smoothly

Viviennemary · 24/09/2024 13:21

Patio doors seem to be a lot cheaper. But French are nicer.

FloydWasACat · 24/09/2024 13:20

We had some fitted last week, around £5000, SE England

Totallyexhaustedandperplexed · 24/09/2024 12:57

I know right!! We were quoted £4.5k for french doors in white uPVC in the SouthWest. It annoys me because about 8 years ago I had some put in my old flat for £950. How on earth did everything get so expensive??