Hillary's Blinds - curtains, costs, haggling

[IVFbeenverylucky]

Someone came around yesterday to do measuring for 3 rooms - poles and curtains. I was a bit surprised by the cost - £1300 in total - no bay windows, floor length etc. That was apparently with a 20% discount which was added on, although I had selected non sales items. I'm going to have a look at their website and maybe trying picking other things as I'm not that bothered about what I got, although I don't think anything I picked would have been obviously on the pricey side.
Anyway, do they offer further discounts? If I wait a week or two are they likely to come down by a further percentage and if so, any ideas what it would be? Never bought curtains before!

In my experience Hillarys are good for blinds but even the sales rep advised me to buy my curtains elsewhere because their curtains come up expensive. I would look somewhere else like M&S.

A friend told me that you can haggle with them so I got a quote from a local guy I'd used before (didn't want to use again as his blinds were actually rubbish and didn't fit my windows well). Hillarys matched his quote, definitely worth a go. Their blinds are v good in my experience

Thanks. It is curtains I want not blinds. The house is Victorian with long narrow windows and unfortunately I need to go made-to-measure. Also, as there are no poles/anything, I really want someone to install the whole thing. Happy to pay for this but only up to a point. The costs of one of the curtains (windows dimensions approx 100 cm wide, 150 cm long was £450!). I don't think what I picked was particularly fancy/expensive, but I'm very flexible on what I have anyway. The guy did say it was 20% extra because I wanted blackout lining, but that's only a part of the cost.

I actually think that’s not an astronomical quote these days if it’s including poles and fitting. See if you can get the price down with a cheaper fabric?

I bought some blinds from here a few years ago and they did such a poor job that they gave me a full refund immediately. Truly dreadful. The local company I got round to sort it out said that they have that problem a lot and that he knew of a family who had their whole house set of shutters refunded as they'd done such a bad job. I'd really avoid.

We have Hilary’s shutters and curtains. One set of long curtains over French doors, another over a living room window. They came up cheaper than quotes we got elsewhere and are lovely and high quality. They do have sales from time to time - we caught one around December / January last year (50% off, I think) and that helped.

Dunelm do made to measure and so do independent fabric shops.
My lounge window is 300cm wide and I had a full length lined pair made from beautiful heavy fabric for £250 from my local fabric warehouse. Dunelm wanted £500.
B&M do decent poles.

Ikea do very long curtains, I bought them for my conservatory roof and adapted them to fit.

You could try Blind2Go which are the cheaper, sister company of Hillarys @IVFbeenverylucky

John Lewis is worth a look too if you have a store nearby.
I think your quote was reasonable because years ago I paid over £1K to J Lewis for 3 windows and that was 2 pairs of full length and 1 windowsill length. Not an old house - just a patio door and full length in the lounge. Fabric was on the cheaper side too.

You're paying for made to measure and of course the fabric per metre. Some fabric is £40 p metre and long curtains for an older property with high ceilings will be £££.