Windows made in our own workshop on the Avondale estate and fitted by our own teams since 1994. See the price band now; Kerry fixes it after a free survey.
Fitted, with VAT, made to measure.
8 white casements and a door£4,350 – £5,800
Windows and doors
Casement, tilt-and-turn, sash and bay windows made to measure in our workshop on the Avondale estate, A-rated with warm-edge spacers and argon, in white or any of twelve foiled colours. From £420 a window fitted, about four weeks from the survey.
From £420 a casement window fitted in white, £520 tilt-and-turn, £950 sash.
Slim, strong, thermally broken aluminium windows for extensions, barn conversions and modern houses, powder-coated in any RAL colour with a 25-year finish guarantee. More glass, less frame, and about half as much again as uPVC.
From about £650 a window fitted.
Composite front and back doors with a solid timber core and a GRP skin that looks like painted wood and never needs painting, in eighteen colours with glass, knockers and letterplates to choose. A three-star anti-snap lock as standard. From £1,250 fitted.
From £1,250 a door fitted, £1,650 with a side panel or decorative glass.
Aluminium bi-fold doors that fold right back to open a room to the garden, slim sliding patio doors, and French doors in uPVC or aluminium. Level thresholds, toughened glass and proper drainage, measured and fitted by our own teams.
Three-panel aluminium bi-folds from £3,600 fitted.
A polycarbonate conservatory roof is too hot in July and too cold in January. We replace it with a lightweight solid tiled roof with a plastered ceiling and spotlights, or with modern solar-control glass, on the frames you already have. Two to four days.
A solid tiled roof on a typical 3.5 by 3 metre conservatory from £6,800 fitted.
Misted sealed units, locks that will not turn, hinges that have dropped, handles that have snapped: we repair windows and doors whoever fitted them, usually in one visit with the part in the van. A misted unit from £95.
A misted sealed unit replaced from £95.
Energy
From single glazing, ten new windows save something like £220 of gas a year; from double glazing fitted before 2002, about £100. We would rather show you the arithmetic than a sales figure, so the energy estimate writes down every assumption: the window area, the U-values, the South Wales heating season, the boiler and the gas price.
How we work
Kerry measures every opening with a laser, checks the brickwork, the lintels and the cills, and writes a fixed quote at the kitchen table. It is the figure on the invoice unless you change the order.
A three-bed semi with eight windows and a front door is one day for a team of three: the old frames out one at a time, so you are never open to the weather for more than an hour per window.
Dust sheets on every floor and over the furniture, the old frames and glass taken away for recycling, and the plaster round each window made good before we leave. Decorating is yours.
Replacement windows must meet the thermal standard, have trickle vents where the room needs them, and fire-escape openings upstairs. We fit to all three and register it with FENSA.
The survey
Most bad windows were measured badly: a frame too tight in an opening that is not square, a lintel nobody looked at, a cill that sloped the wrong way. Kerry measures every opening with a laser at three heights, checks the brickwork, the lintels and the cills, notes which rooms need trickle vents and which upstairs windows must open wide enough to escape from, and shows you the colours and the glass in your own light. The quote is written there and then and it is fixed.
Customers
The quote builder said £4,350 to £5,800 for eight white casements and a front door. Kerry's quote after the survey was £5,140, and that is what we paid. Three fitters, one day, and not a speck of dust in the living room.
Anthracite windows and a composite door in heritage green. They made the windows across the yard from the showroom and I went to see mine on the jig. The FENSA certificate came in the post three weeks later.
Sash windows on a Victorian terrace that were rotting. From the street you cannot tell they are not timber, and the front room is no longer the coldest in the house.
The showroom
Twenty windows and twelve doors set up full size, every colour and glass, and the line where your windows will be cut, welded and glazed. Weekday mornings you can watch it running.
Fitted, with VAT: a white uPVC casement from £420, tilt-and-turn from £520, a sash from £950, a bay from £2,400; colours add 15 to 18 per cent, and eight or more windows take 7 per cent off. A composite door from £1,250. The quote builder gives the band for your house.
About four weeks for white uPVC, five for anthracite and six for heritage green, oak or a composite door, counting the week after the survey, because we make the windows ourselves. Most houses are fitted in a day.
The government-approved scheme that lets a registered installer self-certify that replacement windows and doors meet Building Regulations. You get the certificate by post, and you need it when you sell the house.
From single glazing, noticeably; from old double glazing, a little. The energy estimate shows the sums with every assumption written down, so you can judge it for yourself.
20 per cent on order, held in an insured deposit scheme so it is safe even if we were not. The balance is due when the job is finished and you are happy.
Ten years on frames, sealed units, hardware and our fitting, insurance-backed. Repairs on other companies' windows carry twelve months.
Kerry measures every opening with a laser, checks the lintels and the cills, shows you the colours and the glass, and writes a fixed quote at your kitchen table. The quote builder gives you the band before she comes.
