Double glazing quote - £6000 for 3 windows???

[pobblebop]

I've just had a quote of £6k for double glazing for 2 bays and 1 double window. I've never bought double glazing before but it sounds a bit steep. I was expecting it to be closer to the £4k mark.

Would anyone be able to tell me if this is a reasonable price?

window scrappage scheme my asre.

did they lead you to suppose it is a government subsidy like car scrappage?

I've had double glazing recently -24(!) windows. The quotes really vary, I got 6 quotes:

Massive UK wide company £36,000
Big Scottish company £24,000
Big North of Scotland company £18,000
Local company £12,000
Second very small local company £11,000
Cowboy joiner (wanted to leave the old sash boxes in) £8000

We went with the £18,000 after much further haggling down and the company paying the vat -we liked the windows they use. So in the end we got good quality windows near our cheapest price.

I bet you can get good quality windows less than half what Anglian are pitching.

We used starglaze in Lincolnshire and paid about 2.5k for 5 large windows all with openings. We then had them out a few years later for one small window and that cost us about £300.

Gosh no.

We just had our whole house re-windowed (14 apparently!) and two doors - and paid about £6800.

We had a couple of quotes from local firms- both were very close in price.

I ve just had 1 double bedroom window ,2 openings ,sill ect . £320.
2 years ago I had huge French doors plus window either side -wall knocked out ect for £1000- local company- south wales

You are welcome pobblebop however sorry but one of my links was wrong - here is the correct one for the competent persons scheme

(Windows are approximately 2/3 down the page).

Do not ever allow Anglian to do any work at your home. We ordered a conservatory with them in September 2014 for installation the following August. They came and did the first survey for building control in January and got the dimensions wrong. So wrong that the conservatory would not have fitted within the space available. We then heard nothing from them until I called the office 3 weeks before start date chasing them for the final survey and their reply was that they had no knowledge of our order. They sent a man round the next day to measure again, only to get it wrong again. I explained to him that we had taken time off work for the build which was due to start on Monday 24th August 2015 (in 3 weeks time) and that it had to be done within that time period, as agreed. I checked with the office again on the Thursday before the start date and they said everything was in place to start. NO-ONE TURNED UP ON MONDAY. NO PHONE CALL. NO APOLGY. We then cancelled the order after losing all faith in Anglian.

They then proceeded to take us to court for cancelling. This cost us £6945 for them to NOT to turn up and build a conservatory.

Anglian are, at best, scam merchants who have no idea of customer service, management of jobs, or business ethics.

My advice to anyone who is reading this, do not under any circumstances allow Anglian into your home and never enter into any form of contract with them.