Best DIY window company in the UK.

I've only ever heard good reports about these:

Not sure if it is close enough for you, but I recently used, and had a good experiance with:

The Future Window Co.Ltd Unit 1, Brook Farm Ind Est Stapleford Rd Stapleford Abbotts Romford Essex RM4 1EJ

Tel: 01708 688098

They will do "supply only" at reasonable prices.

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What about Wicks?

Look in yellow pages for local companies who make windows. Many will supply for diy fitting. Avoid the large national companies like the plague.

I'm very pleased with my Screwfix ones - although they only do stock sizes.

B&Q Yeading (the biggest B&Q I know of) has what I suspect are the same: they have Saracen ironmonger.

You could try Davies & Tate, I think they are in Sussex. Can't say if they are any good or not, sorry. Web site:

Does it have to be plastic? Why not use a top-class metal-framed window from Crittall? They make double-glazed inserts nowadays, and with real hardwood frames, you'd have a sleek, elegant window that will last far longer than you will! As their advertising says: "...steel windows have very slender sight lines allowing a light and airy feel to any room."

Plastic windows are an abomination and a blight across the nation. They are fitted to houses where they simply do not belong, are often of poor quality and don't last all that long. Have a look instead at the modern range of Crittall's products, the "BMW" of window making. They're the ones architects recommend.

As would be a Crittall window in a Victorian house designed for wood sash windows.

Hmmm and there I was just about to order a UPVC window from Magnet.

Ross

Magnet may be ok, but I would think that they would only stock standard sizes - whereas you really want someone to make them to your specified dimensions.

By "large national companies" I was thinking more of companies like Everest and Anglian - which are large impersonal outfits. It's far better if you can deal directly with the person who's going to make the windows for you.

Sir

I use the rehau factory all the local builders use, its cheep and efficient, when I broke some glass a new unit cost me a fiver. Not the best windows out, but for the cost great

Rick

" > B&Q Yeading (the biggest B&Q I know of) has what I suspect are the same: they

Is that really Yeading or a typo for Reading ? (Where is Yeading ?) Also looking for same. Nick

Yeading's just north of Hayes , between the M4 and M40/A40.

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Yeading, near Hayes: turn off the M4 at J3 and head north about 2 miles, turn right at second roundabout. It claims to be the biggest DIY shed in Middlesex. Go to