Product and contractor selection can be
difficult in the absence of independent impartial advice.
Window Advice
Centre Consultants are available to help you identify which of the many products on the
market is best suited for your needs and your preferences. Whilst the
Consultants have many years of experience, they have no vested interest in any one product
or contractor.
When you first
contact Window Advice Centre, a Consultant is allocated to look after your interests from
initial discussion through to the point that your work is approved for payment.
Your Consultant
will arrange to meet with you to discuss what you are looking to do and importantly
develop a clear understanding of the benefits that you want to achieve. Your
particular requirements may be to reduce heat loss, noise, or maintenance, or simply to
enhance the security or appearance of your home.
Your Consultant
will then survey your property and discuss the merits and probable costs of the various
options that meet your needs and help you to refine your proposals to avoid any
unnecessary costs that would not contribute to delivering the benefits that you are
looking to secure.
Once you are
completely happy, your Consultant will take detailed notes of your wishes from which a
technical specification document will be prepared.
It is this document that allows
your Consultant to source up to ten directly comparable contractors costs on your behalf.
"The
help that we got, the information that we got, with no hard sell from anybody - I mean
there was never a salesman came here at all - I thought was just excellent."
 Mrs Gray
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Local Authority regulations are often low in consumer’s list of
things to take into account. However, it could be very costly if you get it wrong. Local Authorities have the power to oblige
that you remove and replace, at your own expense, any work that does not comply. Because
of this, when you come to sell your house, you may find that the cost of replacing
anything that does not comply is deducted from the sales value. |
 "The worst time you want to discover it is when
you are trying to sell your house because almost certainly the surveyors will pick it up
and raise it with the buying solicitors - and that's the time you do not want to be
bothered"
Mr Ross: President,
Scottish Association of Chief Building Control Officers |
| WHAT ABOUT BUILDING REGULATIONS AND PLANNING...? Not every double glazing contractor is equally suitable for every
installation, nor are the many different products which are available as they all vary in
quality, performance and cost.
Matching the right product to your
specific needs is essential.
As an example, compare the
performance requirements for an exposed third floor window with that of a sheltered ground
floor window where security might be a concern.
The appropriate product for the
third floor would be one with a high exposure rating capable of keeping out high winds and
driving rain where as the ground floor requires a product that can keep out intruders.
Fitting the wrong product for the job would be pointless and a waste of money.
This is just one example of the
many factors that need to be taken into account when selecting products. |
