These are illustrative examples of typical jobs on Horsham house types. They are not records of completed work. Each gives a range for the whole job, supplied and fitted, including VAT, with the old frames taken away and making good inside and out. The written quote after a survey is the price you pay. Scaffold for an upstairs window on a small job is about £500 and is included in the examples that need it. Bay support, rotten sills and damaged brick arches are survey items and are not included.
Two of the examples are similar Victorian houses with four front sashes, one in uPVC and one in timber, so you can see what the choice of material does to the total.
House: A two-storey 1970s terraced house of the kind built across North Heath in that decade.
What is fitted: Two chamfered uPVC casements in white, about 1000 by 1200 mm, both in upstairs bedrooms above the timber-clad band. Scaffold for the upper floor is included.
Typically £2,150 to £2,900, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
House: A 1950s semi-detached house of the type laid out on the Needles estate from about 1955.
What is fitted: Four chamfered uPVC casements in white, about 1000 by 1200 mm: two downstairs, two up. The original openings are kept and the casement pattern matches the neighbours.
Typically £3,250 to £4,800, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
House: A 1920s semi-detached house of the kind built on the Hills estate along Guildford Road from 1925.
What is fitted: A three-unit uPVC flush canted bay on the ground floor, about 2000 by 1400 mm, and two uPVC flush casements upstairs. Bay support, if the survey finds it is needed, is priced after the survey.
Typically £5,600 to £9,350, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
House: A late Victorian red brick terraced house with yellow brick arches, typical of the railway-era streets east of the station, outside the conservation areas.
What is fitted: Three uPVC vertical sliding sashes in a woodgrain finish, about 900 by 1800 mm: one on each floor of the front, which is the pair in the picture, and one at the back. Scaffold for the upper sash is included.
Typically £5,850 to £8,250, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
House: A double-fronted late Victorian detached house outside Horsham's conservation areas, two sashes on each floor at the front.
What is fitted: Four uPVC vertical sliding sashes in a heritage colour, about 900 by 1800 mm, with run-through horns. Shown beside a timber version on a similar house below.
Typically £7,100 to £10,300, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
House: A late Victorian brick detached house of the same age and size as the uPVC example above, with a side porch and two sashes on each floor at the front.
What is fitted: Four timber box sashes, painted, about 900 by 1800 mm. Expect the outside paintwork to want its first fresh coat around three years after fitting, and further coats at steady intervals from then on. Repainting is not part of the installer's service, so keeping these sashes painted falls to you as the owner. Timber makes sense where the council requires it; on this house it does not, which is why the uPVC version is the usual choice.
From £10,600 installed (from £2,650 installed per window), supplied and fitted, including VAT.
House: A 1980s four-bedroom detached house in Southwater, from the period when about 1,600 houses stood in the parish by 1982.
What is fitted: Ten chamfered uPVC casements in anthracite grey replacing the original white double glazing, plus one uPVC tilt and turn window on the landing.
Typically £11,850 to £17,450, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
House: A large 1970s detached house of the kind built on the Highlands farm estate for business executives.
What is fitted: Twelve slimline aluminium casements, about 1200 by 1200 mm, replacing the first double glazing throughout. The garden doors had already been changed to dark grey aluminium a few years earlier, so they are kept and the new windows are matched to them.
Typically £16,200 to £30,600, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
Want a figure for your own house? Send your details or call 01403 907156. A surveyor measures and gives a written quote.