Good aluminium windows at a reasonable price?

Is there any place that specialises in good aluminium windows/doors for a home and can therefore produce them in sufficient quantity to be cheaper? So far every window/door manufacturer is charging 2-2.5 times the price for aluminium instead of pvc. Both the slim size of the aluminium frame/more glass and colour range appeal strongly. There must be some company in Ireland (north or south) who can be more competitive.

I'll have a builder on site so the price can be supply and fit, or supply only.

BryanF

Have a spread of alu, timber and pvc prices in front of me. I've a 2.7h x 4~w ope. Alu average for good glazing is -10k pvc is 5k

Alu framing will be skinner and look better than pvc

You pay for quality

dazed+confused

Could you PM me the Alu supplier you are looking at Brian please.

magicbastarder

sorry to resurrect an old thread, but we've been looking at aluminium windows for our place, and i'm curious about the comment re aluminium framing being thinner. perhaps we're looking at the wrong product, but we've a bay window and have been told that the width of the profiles for TS66 would be at least eight inches between the panes, to allow for the frames and uprights. which was counter to what i would have expected from aluminium; is TS66 intended for a more industrial rather than domestic use?

Calahonda52

magicbastarder wrote: »

sorry to resurrect an old thread, but we've been looking at aluminium windows for our place, and i'm curious about the comment re aluminium framing being thinner. perhaps we're looking at the wrong product, but we've a bay window and have been told that the width of the profiles for TS66 would be at least eight inches between the panes, to allow for the frames and uprights. which was counter to what i would have expected from aluminium; is TS66 intended for a more industrial rather than domestic use?

bay windows are not comparable to normal windows where ALU frames are almost always thinner than PVC

Brenk39

magicbastarder wrote: »

sorry to resurrect an old thread, but we've been looking at aluminium windows for our place, and i'm curious about the comment re aluminium framing being thinner. perhaps we're looking at the wrong product, but we've a bay window and have been told that the width of the profiles for TS66 would be at least eight inches between the panes, to allow for the frames and uprights. which was counter to what i would have expected from aluminium; is TS66 intended for a more industrial rather than domestic use?

Just reading the above.. does your bay window have sashes? If it does that would explain why there is such a large a mount of aluminium shown.
I can't see where the 8" is coming from tho but I do know by the time you add the width of frame + sash you'd definitely have a good 6"

BTW.. TS66 profiles measure 66mm from inside to outside.

magicbastarder

no sashes - but seems to be a 60mm wide frame, a 27mm wide frame that is held within, plus 3mm gap, and then because the angle the bay creates, about 15mm on top of all that - multiplied by two to add the neighbouring window.

Mac0783

Hi, we're currently looking at windows and they're all expensive. Granted we have a lot of windows in our house, but prices vary between €20k (vpuc) and €41k (aluclad). We're now looking at Aluminum, how does the price of them rate between pvc and aludclad? Has anyone gone to Northern Ireland to source windows and are they any cheaper??

Mac0783

Mac0783 wrote: »

Hi, we're currently looking at windows and they're all expensive. Granted we have a lot of windows in our house, but prices vary between €20k (vpuc) and €41k (aluclad). We're now looking at Aluminum, how does the price of them rate between pvc and aludclad? Has anyone gone to Northern Ireland to source windows and are they any cheaper??

We were drifting between a few suppliers and at the end of a month a few months ago we contacted the -snip- Windows guy and asked him what's the very best price he can give (for triple glazed aluclad) and he reduced it by a full €2500, saying it was the end of the month and he wanted to get his figures up. Apparently that's common across the industry. But that was a very welcome cut.

Also, spend the bit extra for vents in the windows. We didn't, and then we had to put holes in the wall of each room to comply with the requirements of the SEAI grant (we got an SEAI inspection as well as a RECI inspection). Aside from the money that cost, it was very annoying as we had to drill through some lovely brick to put a vent out there. Every day's a school day!

Mac0783

They're the people that quoted us in excess of €40k, unfortunately 2.5 won't bring it anywhere near our budget..

BryanF

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