Replacing Sash Windows - approx costs please

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Hope someone can help...

Had a look at a house on Saturday which I thought was really nice but my uber-practical husband immediately noticed the sash windows.

He would want to replace them all with double-glazed sealed sash windows...does anyone have any idea (don't mind approximate figures) of costs involved?

He thinks it will cost c. £40k ???

I've counted up the windows that will need replacing and its probably 8 windows (they've extended parts of the house)

TIA

Gosh!

Are they very large windows?

We have had a couple of quotes for replacing 4 small sash windows and 5 small casement windows. They have come in at 9,000 - 10,000. I haven't seen the breakdown, but I guess the sash windows account for at least two thirds of the cost.

Still, having said that, I can't see where your DH is getting his figures from.

I would ring a local company and ask them for a ball-park figure.

HTH

we're having three small windows and two large windows replaced with bespoke wooden sash (york ones though, side sliders not top/bottom) and that's costing us approx £7000.

in my previous house i had several sliding sash replaced, with wooden frame double glazed sealed units from Jewsons. sorry can't remember price but they were very reasonable.

you need to check the sizes to see if you can get 'off the peg' sizes from a builders merchant, or whether you will need to have them made bespoke.
We've gone for york sliders on the advice of our joiner (because of the size of the larger ones) but we did discuss traditional sash - things to consider are whether to have traditional sash cords and weights or more modern aluminum sliders, and for us we would have needed the casements making too as there are none here. If there are existing sash you probably won't need this.

Does he want to replace them purely because they are single glazed? you can have secondary glazing to solve draught/cold problems.
If it's because they aren't in good condition it would be worth seeing if they can be restored.

We bought a house a couple of years ago which had all of the original sashs all needed repair of some sought and some total replacement.

Would recommend trying to find a really good carpenter who can bespoke repair/replace. Really the parts of a sash window are not expensive its the labour which costs. Our chippie charges £10 per hour labour and will cost up a window parts and labour before he starts. Most of the sash window replacement specialists charge a small fortune.

Please reconsider repairing rather than replacing, they are really not that bad for insulation if you have good lined curtains/blinds.

Thanks for the quick responses!

nigglewiggle - not sure where DH got the figure from, he normally has a good idea about property stuff but we've never had sash windows before.

The property is the top top end of our budget so I think noticing work that needs to be done is putting him off - fair enough.

Interesting to hear that there are different options - it was only the first property we looked at but wanted to find out if it made the house a complete 'no no'.