Work and prices
What it costs, window by window.
Prices are per window, for an ordinary two-sash box window up to about 1.8 metres tall. Stair windows, tall ground floor windows and anything above the first floor are priced on survey.
The Price List
| Work | What it covers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Survey visit within Bath | Every window looked at, a written quote by email within a week | free |
| Survey visit further out | As above. The fee comes off the work if you go ahead | £40 |
| Re-cord and ease | New waxed cotton cords, pulleys freed and oiled, sashes eased and rebalanced | £150 |
| Draught proofing | Brush seals routed into staff and parting beads, meeting rail and bottom rail seals, new cords included | £290 |
| Full overhaul | Draught proofing and cords, loose putty replaced, up to two splice repairs, split beads renewed | £460 |
| Splice repair | Rot cut out and a piece of matching timber spliced in, shaped and primed | from £85 each |
| New parting beads | Both sides of one window | £35 |
| Sill repair | A new nosing or a new section of sill, depending on how far the rot has gone | on survey |
| New sash made to match | Made in the workshop to the profile and glazing pattern of the old | on survey |
What each of these involves, step by step, is on the method page.
Paying
- Work under £1,000nothing up front
- Work over £1,000a third when booked
- The restwhen the work is done
- Howbank transfer or card
- Quotes hold forsix months
What We Do Not Do
- Plastic or aluminium windows, of any kind.
- Double glazed units fitted into old sashes. We will happily explain why on the method page.
- Secondary glazing. It is a different trade.
- Applications for listed building consent. We write a plain description of the work for yours, which is usually what is wanted.
- Windows above the second floor without scaffolding, which you arrange and we are happy to advise on.