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Im building an old traditional style country farmhouse just outside Dublin and we are nearly at window stage. It is a condition of the PP to have wood sah windows. Obviously these are proving very costly to me made and I am wondering does anyone have any suggestions on where I could get a reasonable quote? I have heard some people go to Poland to save up to 50% cost. Is this a possibilty? Has anyone any experience of this?
 
Don't know about Poland, or even Ireland, but our local joinery shop made and fitted 50 odd opening and fixed lights for us at an average price of £100 each, including doubleglazing.

Is there no-one in your area who can make the sashes for you? (I mean a small company rather than a big one.)
 
we bought ours from Marvin Architectural, they were based in Dunlavin but are not also in Rathmines - expensive at the time but they look great.
 
BillK said:
Don't know about Poland, or even Ireland, but our local joinery shop made and fitted 50 odd opening and fixed lights for us at an average price of £100 each, including doubleglazing.

Is there no-one in your area who can make the sashes for you? (I mean a small company rather than a big one.)
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I'm not sure how small or big your windows are? (you call them opening and fixed lights?)

I'm pretty sure that a sash window in the uk would be more expensive than £100 a shot? The materials alone would cost more than that (if they are sash windows, not roof lights)

Jaid
 
Our windows are casements, not sashes, but in both cases I think they consist of four pieces of timber enclosing glass. The major difference is that the opening lights have hinges, staybars and window fasteners. The fixed lights are just screwed into the frame and do not open, so have no need of the above window furniture.

Our main bedroom, which is fairly typical, has two opening lights about 4 feet by 21 inches, two opening lights about 1 foot by 21 inches and two fixed light about three feet by 21 inches.

There are two bay windows with 14 lights in each, two bay windows with 10 lights in each and a number of small windows with 3 lights in each.

Maybe Carpenter understands what I mean and could explain it better if necessary.

BillK
 
This guy from the UK seeems to specialise in Sash windows, he doesn't recommend double glazing. I'm not suggesting you buy from him, just that he has a lot of info on his site and some of his advice may be very different from what you receive elsewhere...

http://www.owdman.co.uk/joinery/

Cheers
Joe
 
BillK said:
Our windows are casements, not sashes, but in both cases I think they consist of four pieces of timber enclosing glass. The major difference is that the opening lights have hinges, staybars and window fasteners. The fixed lights are just screwed into the frame and do not open, so have no need of the above window furniture.

Our main bedroom, which is fairly typical, has two opening lights about 4 feet by 21 inches, two opening lights about 1 foot by 21 inches and two fixed light about three feet by 21 inches.

There are two bay windows with 14 lights in each, two bay windows with 10 lights in each and a number of small windows with 3 lights in each.

Maybe Carpenter understands what I mean and could explain it better if necessary.

BillK
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Makes perfect sense to me.

Carpenter
 
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