Double Glazing Windows

DIY Double glazing online allows diy customers who want to buy windows, double glazing and doors online cheaper. Traditional double glazing businesses have alot of overheads that you end up paying for. Example a product leaves the factory at £55 and by the time it’s got to your house through all the advertising, sales people, surveyors, managers, directors, showroom overheads and profit for shre holders you can end up paying as much as 10 times more for a window ie £550.

Handy men/women, Builders, architects and Window Fitters can buy their replacement windows online. You cut out all the middle men and buy direct, no salesman , no overheads, high quality and still guaranteed. Save money for your replacement windows/double glazing by buying omline. Also available is free a fitting guide on most DIY websites to fit yourself or to get your own builder to do it for you. Also included are instructions how to get a FENSA certificate.

Front doors , composite doors , windows glazed , for double glazing and double glazed doors<, why would any one goto a retail store when you can save online and buy DIY double glazing.

The double glazing shopping carts are helping customers through the credit crunch; still geting their houses fully double glazed with energy efficient windows. Cut out the overheads and middle men and buy direct from manufacturers. Still same quality, just less people to pay in the chain. Rehau frames, HW elite 70, Bowater frames, Shield frames, 58mm, 65mm, 68mm, 70mm, upvc, sliding sash, casement windows, patio doors, bifold doors . We have got the lot, we get more visitors to our site than any other double glazing company, because we move more frames than any online retailer we are able to get you drastically reduced prices. Don’t throw your money away during the credit crunch save money buy online. Enjoy 2008 and as online retailers are continually crunching down the cost of improving your home online, and reducing carbon emmisions with the latest energy saving double glazing.

The fact that most householders in the UK believe their upvc windows and doors cannot be repaired was brought to my attention while listening to a talk show on Radio 2. The topic under discussion was the “fact” upvc windows and doors can’t be repaired and as a result landfill sites would soon overflow with tens of thousands of windows and doors that would take at least 10,000 years to decompose. Absolutely nobody rang in to say they could be repaired. Which is odd because that’s exactly what I and we as a company have been doing for the past 13 years along with many other firms.

When I finally got through to the show the topic had ended on the consensus that we should all go back to timber sash windows and the next topic of the day was under way.

The radio program had now actually reinforced in the publics mind the misconception that upvc double glazing is un-repairable.

Imagine if people thought and were led to believe their car could not be repaired when a part on it broke and they would have to scrap it and buy a new one. The affects would be:

1. Huge increase in cost of having a car
2. Scrap-yards would fill to bursting point
3. People would suggest we go back to the horse and cart to solve the problem.

Well this is exactly what is already happening with upvc windows in the UK:

1. Huge increase in cost of having upvc double glazing
2. Old but repairable windows being dumped at landfills
3. People are suggesting we go back to wooden windows and doors that require regular painting and the consuming of many thousands of trees.

Now lets just look closer at the huge cost to households that this misconception is and will have. To fit an average house with upvc double glazing you are looking at around $5000. For a standard conservatory about the same amount £5000. Real problems occur about 5 to 10 years after installation. The windows with faults could be repaired at this point and then regularly repaired and maintained over the next 50 or so years. However if the windows are replaced every time a fault arises the cost over 50 years could be £40,000 and above for households with conservatories.

The costs to the environment are vast. There would be five times as much raw material used and energy to manufacture and transport the replacement windows over the next 50 years. There would also be 5 times as many upvc windows and doors in land fill sites that take thousands of years to degrade.

If households do go back to fitting wooden windows this would mean even more maintenance and encountering problems of the past that upvc windows and doors were designed to overcome and were so popular for doing so. The shear number of trees that would need to be consumed (and on a regular basis as the timber rots) is unthinkable.

Repairing upvc windows and doors:

The parts that fail are the metal moving parts like hinges, handles, locks and glass units. These parts can be replaced by a upvc double glazing repairer or a competent DIY enthusiast. The only thing stopping them being repaired is the general misconception that they can not be repaired.

For proof that they can be repaired check your local Yellow Pages under the heading “double glazing repairs”. They had to introduce this heading several years back. Also check out the website of the company that I work for http://www.upvc-hardware.co.uk. All we do is repair upvc double glazing and supply hardware parts for others to do the same and have done this for the past 13 years. I have also recently set up a forum which is free to view or join which is solely dedicated to helping people repair their upvc double glazing.

One of the problems I think is that many double glazing firms have gone out of business. People assume that when the company that manufactured their windows and doors has gone out of business then the parts have gone also. This is not the case because the window and door manufacturers are separate to the hardware manufacturers. Most if not all of the hardware manufacturers are still trading and selling to new upvc double glazing firms. Even though the windows look different the hardware parts can be exactly the same. Also it does not benefit double glazing firms to make it public knowledge that what they sell is repairable as they would prefer to just sell you a new window. Often if you go back to the original supplier/installer looking for a replacement part they will fob you off saying the parts are obsolete when in most cases they aren’t.