£17K for new windows

[MaryIsA]

Hard wood, double glazed. That's just the windows, will also have fitting on top of that and maybe a bit extra if planning make us have fancy coloured glass in the top.

3 big box bays and 2 wide but short windows upstairs.

Does that sound about reasonable?

My windows cost £900 each for double glazed wood sash windows, including installation, last one done about 4 years ago. So for your amount just a bit over £7000. But I live far outside London- when viewing a house recently in London the surveyor said to do the front bay and three windows above was close to £15k.

Pricey...get more quotes and not the big companies with the hard sell and fake discounts...I paid 6k for very similar, essex , about 4 years ago.

The windows are about 3.5 m wide.

This was a local company.

We just had ours done, granted they are just white upvc but we had 9 windows (two of them extremely large) and a set of French doors, including VAT, installation and disposal of old windows for £7.5k

We are in the SE

I know wooden windows are more expensive but that seems an awful lot!

Ours are quite small but are c£4.5K per window because they need to be invisible double glazing due to listing.

I'm in Scotland and our wooden wooden windows have been quotes at £1500-2000 per window. So one bay of 4 is £6 - 8k. Our total for 2 rooms (11 windows) was £33k with the sills finished etc.

We've also had to get planning permission and architects drawings. Conservation area.

@gurglebelly who did you do with if you dont mind. Had a couple quotes for 10k for Pvc 8 window 1 extremely large bay, 3 are sashes.

Changing that is very cheap for timber windows

Sounds a bit pricey, but it doe depend on size of glass panels. We had new 5m sliding doors (2 sliding and 2 fixed windows) oak inside, aluminium outside. Plus 4m glass entrance with front door, again oak and aluminium. All triple glazed. Was £15k for both including fitting.

Conservation area. Very unlikely to get away with upvc. Also semidetached and would have to match next door.

Casements Have to open inwards and lots of little panes at top. Sounds more like @WeAreAllCompletelyFine

Our quote is £52k for 10 timber casement windows (they’re all quite large) and 4 sets of double French doors. Includes VAT and installation. I’ve had a few other quotes and they’ve all been in the same ballpark 😭 These are from window companies. I’ve got 2 cheaper quotes from joiners, but would need to find fitters myself and they wouldn’t be FENSA registered, which I think is a certificate I’d need to provide when we sell in future.

I wish I’d know how much windows cost before buying!! I’d thought £30k all in.

@CoconutChair. We’ve had joiners come in and do repairs in a previous house. It was massive pounds to do the whole house, but they came in and repaired and filled and replaced bits. Much cheaper, painted up looked great.

Depends on what you need doing obviously. Our ground floor isn’t too bad as previous owners replaced the single glazing with double glazed units in the original frames.

Upstairs that isn’t possible and we can’t have secondary glazing as windows open in....

With needing to comply with conservation it’s probably about right

We got four quotes, but tbh all were virtually the same so just choose the company and style we liked best.

Is there any way you can get aluminium outside instead of wood? The wood requires a lot more maintenance. When we looked we could get the aluminium in so many colours including matched to wood samples ie whatever your other windows looked like. We went for matt black due to others and house restyle, but could have had aluminium looking oak/ walnut etc.

I think it’s going to like for like replacement, that seems to be the current conservation officer’s view.

The windows have to be white. Aluminium would be easier!

The previous guy was more pragmatic and let all sorts through.

We can ask though.

That sounds very pricey to me. I'd get a few more estimates.

I intend to get estimates too.
While I was away, my DH got quoted £30k for all of them, more windows than yours.
In no way would I just take the first quote.

You can get white aluminium

Our next door neighbours have white aluminium on extension. They have upvc on rest of house that was put in first. You can’t tell the difference from looking at house, but they say they wish all house was the aluminium as easier to clean and say the upvc has started going yellowy after about 5 years. But upvc was cheaper when they needed lots done so they went with it.

I prefer UPVC windows. They last much longer and the naice ones you can get nowadays look just as nice as wood.

We live in a conservation area and lots of the windows round here are UPVC. Can your local council can advise you whether or not your conservation area rules prohibit this?

We had wooden box frame sash windows installed in our bedroom bay window, so four windows altogether, and that was 8k. So your quote sounds about right, OP. Box frames are costly because they're handmade to spec.

I live in a conservation area and they wanted every single last detail. We replaced with a double glazed wooden sash that cost c£7k. It was a big bay window. We subsequently paid a further £2k for another wooden sash but much smaller window. We replaced casement window with French doors which were about £5k. I don't think £17k sounds that unusual particularly if they are used to dealing with conservation areas and the council's expectations.

We are in London.

as a guide, the cost of installing good quality timber windows usually comes in at around 5% of the total value of the house

Have a look at residence 9 windows. They’re not cheap (but don’t know how they compare to wood price wise) but have been accepted in conservation areas. My parents had them fitted and they look lovely.

Wowsers! These prices.

I am sleep deprived today so can't equate but we have a quote from Rationel for £8.5k inc cills and delivery (exc fitting & VAT) for the following:

2m x 2m fixed * 2
1m x 2m fixed * 3
2.5m x 1m with a 0.7m side opening
2.3m x 0.6m fixed
1m x 0.9m fixed
Glass patio door
Timber back door

Everything except the back door is alu clad (so solid timber with aluminium on the outside for longevity) and triple glazed (with a very decent thickness between panes for efficiency). For reference, the same order but double glazed would be £7.5k. Also if we removed the alu clad and just had timber (provided same colour inside and out) then would be 10-15% cheaper again. All the fixed windows are picture windows (no astricles).

We had Nordan provide the same quote and that was £1000 cheaper again like for like (but we prefer Rationel).

Fitting is £3k (done by the joiner who is building our extension but we will still have 10 year warranty with window company) not inc VAT.

Pretty sure you won't get away with any aluminium in a conservation area.

And the double glazing will probably have to be very thin as well. Some people replace their windows with single glazed in this area still as its easier to get it through planning.