Double glazing sales pitches . . .

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I've arranged for three quotes from well-known national double glazing firms and I have to say, from speaking to friends and family, I'm dreading the actual appointments due to the pushy sales tactics other people have experienced!

What's the consensus - any firms to avoid? Recommendations? We're having eight windows, two doors and a garage door replaced so almost the whole house.

Honestly, I'd ditch the appointments with the national chains and find local businesses (if you are doing n Facebook and have a lot call board, you could ask there for recommendations).

As I understand it, a lot of the big chains are more in to getting you to use their finance/loans, and will be high pressure (especially anyone that requires both you and your spouse/partner to be together at the appointment. Then you can't use passing it by them as an excuse to delay).

Good luck.

Sorry for those typos...

If you are on Facebook, and have a local board

Go to someone local. Never contact a national chain.

Cancel the national chains. Not only will they be very-pushy, but the prices are usually around twice the price of a decent local firm.

We used a tiny local firm for our conservatory which came in at £9k - the "big" names were quoting £25-£35k for exactly the same.

Oh wow! Okay, will cancel the nationals then - thank you!

I just had one of the nationals in as I thought it was too late to cancel, so resolved to be strong and assertive . . . and it was totally fine, no hard sell at all. Quite the opposite in fact - it felt like he couldn't wait to get away and go home for his dinner :-)

I have no idea if they're expensive but I can use this quote as a baseline now. I've spoken to two local firms who hopefully will come out and quote.

Stressy business, this renovating malarkey!