Please talk me through this WINDOW quote.

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I have had a joiner in this morning (not had his quote yet) and a Well Know National Chain of window conservatory whatsits.

You know. Lets just call them A. They did our conservatory years ago, and I was happy, it is a nice conservatory.

So, A was by this morning, and quoted me for 6 windows. One of them timber sash (front room) and the other UPVC in timber style with Georgian bars. He started off at 13k telling me what a bargain this was. I bargained it down to 8k.
He would not go any lower. But could offer 2 doors in a strong material that resembles timer, with a 5 bar mortice lock, one for the back garden and one for the front, at 1k a piece, installed.

Is this a good quote?

For him, yes!!

What should I expect to be paying?

I would go with a local independent rather than a chain.
I have a friend whose DH works for such a chain and she has told me a few things which have put me off (not that I was keen in the first place).

Iam showing this to my brothers (builders) they are "wotthe f**ck?!!) re doors ! best doors(they say )are cut from door blanks,i.e. one solid piece off wood ,also, good doors for security need good frames ,hinge locks, two 5 bar Ins.approved deadlocks,and, the frame lock facing should be covered steel, the 2nd quote you got was always the origional one,iyswim, soz to drone on re so much security stuff, but my brothers are forever replacing crappy kicked in doorsnot for £1000 thou , but suppose depends where you live? hope this helps

I have a quote from a local company for 5 windows , just plain UPVC. Varying sizes, one is very large, well over 2m wide, one very small and non opening, the other 3 fairly large. Total quote 1.5k.

We're on South Coast just to give you an idea. This company did one of our other windows and it's fine. We had a back door fitted by another local independent which was £550. Quotes varied massively so definitely worth shopping around.

We're in the Midlands and paid about £1k per window to get a joiner to make and fit timber sash windows 5 years ago. We've just had 4 UPVC sash windows done (all fairly large, 2m tall) for under £3k. There are quite a few manufacturers of UPVC sash now so you can really shop around.

Years ago when I got my house windows changed I had a quote from a national chain. He did all the silly high offer, then speaking to his 'manager' on the phone, then going out in the street to have a further discussion with his manager on the phone. His starting price was £9,000. His finishing price was £4,000. I had similar with another national chain (plus the offer of a date with the salesman ).

I paid £1,500 to a local company who did a fab job. When they came to quote they quoted £1,500 and wouldn't budge on the price at all. It was really refreshing to have a job priced properly.

Another vote for a local company. I've done the thing with a large chain in the past. He stayed for hours, waffled about how good the windows were then gave us a huge quote that we argued down to a large quote. The local company arrived, measured up, left and sent us a small quote in the post.

Also agree with the local companies. Definitely get some quotes from them too.
The national ones always make me laugh with their sales pitches. How it starts at some massive amount but then goes down thousands once the 'discounts' are done. To then still be more than what you'd get for a local company

we have renovated 2 houses and sourced our windows from the company justdoors.
they do made to measure windows and doors all with pilkington glass - we had 5 large windows and 2 small and then put the job live on mybuilder, could also try rated people for a fitter.
we got the whole job done for £1600 but were up north and fitting is very cheap up here.

Sadly the local joiner has not been forthcoming with a quote! I guess he does not want the business and I need to look for others. Shame.

you can advertise your job on the sites i listed above.
Just explain what your needing doing, can even ask them to supply materials for you if you don't want to source yourself.
they then send your info to all the local trades who are listed, then they will contact you to give a quote or site visit
you can also read feedback from there prev jobs.