Remove existing UPVC back door and adjacent window. Replace with three folding double glazed UPVC doors.
No brickwork etc needed above the opening - just remove that below the window. 30 year old timber framed house. Work carried out in one day by two men. No making good to decorations or floor covering etc.
Tidy job well done.
How much?
Cash, no VAT or legit?
Internal vapour barrier still intact and correctly jointed to new frame ????
Price: Probably less than the £200K George Clark 'encouraged' two people to spend on an ex-council house near Croydon, giving it a Crittal glass-walled extension, which resulted in the ?BCO insisting on the other external walls be clad with external insulation and over-rendered to compensate for the massive extra heat loss. Although this was shown on the program, George didn't mention Part L at all !!!.
Legit.
No new frame needed. Because the new doors fitted the existing door and window opening, after the wall beneath the window was removed. That's why there was no lintel etc needed.
£12k?
2.5K max
Not far out - just over 3k. Just seemed a lot to me. Although they had other quotes for a lot more.
"Dave Plowman (News)" posted
I had a very similar job done recently for £1250. Difference was that the new set-up was a pair of 800mm hinged doors each flanked with a
400cm window. Replacing old sliding patio doors.
No prize for being close.
Hmm. My son has just had the opposite done, replacing a perfectly good set of opening doors with sliding.
You sure about the BCO involvement? I remember George saying that the external Crittall windows were double glazed and thought the cladding was a matter of choice.
The reason why all 'kit built' new houses have such tiny windows is because it becomes difficult to meet Part L if they are more than 25% of the total wall area. A double glazed unit (*) has a U value of about 1.0 which means it loses about 4 times as much heat per square metre as the same area of a modern cavity wall. The only way the BCO will allow huge areas of glass is if you carry out extensive improvements on the rest of the property. Not only was this a massive extension, it had glazed lantern roof lights as well which let your money out as fast as they allow the light in.
(*) The program showed a DG unit being installed and it didn't even look like a standard 4+20+4. Seemed to be much thinner, which of course is what architects prefer because it reduces the visual effects of K glass. They might have been vacuum filled though. The only way to make a standard glazed panel match the U value of a modern cavity wall is have up to 5 panes of glass. This reduces the light by a significant percentage and defeats the whole point of a 'transparent wall'.
There are no free lunches where glazing is concerned, and the laws of physics are annoyingly inflexible.
George has 'form' in this area. A few years ago he overhauled a 30s end terrace somewhere in west london by adding a glass roofed extension, taking down the upstairs ceiling and adding a velux window to lluminate the stairwell. On a later program when he revisited the properties he mentioned that the local BCO 'had issues' with what had been done.
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