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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DOUBLE GLAZING IN SCOTLAND

by sitemanager_wacApr 17, 2018Double Glazing

When it comes to Double Glazing in Scotland, it’s important to know your options. With various property types from a tenement in Glasgow to a sandstone villa in Edinburgh, or a semi-detached home in Perth to a first floor flat in Dundee, it can be difficult for you as a homeowner to establish which replacement window and door products are the right fit for your personal circumstances.

This is where the Window Advice Centre can help. Founded in 1981 to assist consumers in line with the recommendations of the Office of Fair Trading, we’ve been providing expert, impartial advice to Scottish homeowners and consumers. Our service is provided without charge or obligation to purchase.

What You Need to Know About Double Glazing : Industry Experience

Window Advice Centre has over 40 years experience researching the quality, reliability and costs of double glazing and replacement window contractors. Window Advice Centre maintains a Register of Approved Contractors who have successfully undergone vigorous vetting.

Having matched your needs to contractor ability, only the most competitive Approved Contractors are invited to quote.

What You Need to Know About Double Glazing : Competitive Tendering

Competitive tendering enables you to make the best use of competitive market forces to obtain the best offer that can be obtained from the market at that particular point in time.

Under the Window Advice Centre’s competitive tendering process, without revealing your identity, up to ten contractors are provided with the dimensions and technical specifications of the proposed new windows and replacement glazing to be supplied. This ensures that contractors calculate their costs to install the new windows and doors on a like for like basis.

Knowing that Window Advice Centre recommends consideration of the lowest quotation received ensures that the contractors will submit the lowest quote that they can in order to be awarded the contract. This process ensures that you the consumer obtains the best price for the best double glazing available.

What You Need to Know About Double Glazing : Cost Efficiency

By necessity, double glazing contractors have to include, in their normal pricing structure, a sufficient amount to pay for advertising and sales commissions. As most consumers will invite multiple quotes for their window replacement but accept only one, double glazing contractors need to include, in each quote, enough to cover the sales-force time on the contracts that they do not secure.

For some of these double glazing firms, over 40% of the amount the consumer pays for their window replacement goes to advertising and sales commission.

Through Window Advice Centre, approved contractors can have access to millions of pounds of business every year without incurring any of these speculative advertising and sales costs. Our approved contractors are obliged to deduct these advertising and sales costs from their normal price structure and instead only include the cost of tendering through Window Advice Centre.

This approach allows us to regularly save individual purchasers anything from a few hundred to literally thousands of pounds with no compromise on quality.

Window Advice Centre – We Know Double Glazing

If you are a homeowner in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Stirling, Dundee, Fife, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, or elsewhere across Central Scotland and are interested in finding out more about our expert, impartial double glazing advice Service then do not hesitate to contact Window Advice Centre by telephone on 0141 332 7878 or arrange a FREE no-obligation Survey of your property by clicking this Book a FREE Survey link or the button below.

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