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Ana14 - thanks for your reply. i will certainly ensure that we spend time covering up the windows before plastering of the walls. i think you can arrange with window suppliers to have some kind of covering on the windows to prevent this problem for a few hundred extra. will enquire about this before ordering.

Hi Lorna - we did get the protective covers on frames and glass and boy - what a pain to get off. I cannot tell you the number of hours that it took!! It is still impossible to keep them 100% clean - in our experience anyway. Good luck!!

Has anybody had any experience of ' Global Windows'? Is this company expensive/cheap, efficent or not ?

I am currently in the same boat, looking replacing my current white pvc. They were installed 10 years ago and I cannot get any service fro some hinges that are broken, there is also some discoluring ( pink colour showing in some spot). Been to over 5 suppliers, alu-clad seem very expensive, looking at black PVC or RAL coloured Aluminium. Must fully decide yet but it is between Futura frames and Duggans. A friend got the Duggans Cream Timber effect, my sister got the Futura cream Timber effect. The futura one looked better from the inside. Got one timber quote for 75k, but they were fantastic looking.

Felt I should update this post made years ago during my research - since FITTED the Marvin windows and while product is good, their customer service and after-sales is beyond awful. Have issues with leaks and it took 5 months for one to be sorted and the other is now nearing that too. They seem not to care once they have your €. Great product - awful service. Unfortunately I'd have to recommend you go elsewhere if you have the choice

The after sales service with the majority of them reads as being awful. We had problems with Senator coming back to fix a double door.

We are now installing windows in new house. Quotes for the job varied from €60K to €25K for cream timber effect sliding sash windows and external doors. After some conversation the guy who started at €60K dropped to mid €30sK. So the true market price should be circa €30K. At one point Marvin quoted us €50K for the house. But we had heard stuff about the windows not performing after a few years. I don't know if that is true or simply a rumour. But we saw the Marvin van today, a 06 van that had Replacement Division on the top of the back doors and it looked as though it had covered lots and lots of miles.............

The ones we went with are being installed is a few weeks so will let you know the co. name and how we get on when the time comes.

Royal Windows

We're in the middle of getting quote for windows and the most competitive are Royal Windows in Swords. Has anybody heard of them? Does anybody know what they're like?

Thanks
betsygirl

We are currently in the process of looking at replacing our windows. We are also dry lining our house which is a 1970's build. We though it would be a good idea to do both at the same time. We are also are doing a refurb on our kitchen. We are taking down a stud wall into the dining room and making the kitchen and dining room one room.

Currently we have double glazed aluminium windows which are about 15 years old, bad condensation also due to the gas being omitted from the back of the windows. It’s supposedly a common problem with windows this old. They were poorly finished and weren't insulated correctly around the sides.

We are looking at the following:

- New Bio Fold Door (opening up dining room)
- New Front Door
- 1 Large Window for sitting room
- 1 very small window for bathroom
- 2 small Windows for Bedroom & Landing
- 3 Medium sized windows for 2 Bedrooms & Kitchen

I just put up the amount of windows/doors needed as a guide to the work needed (not as a guide for quotes as exact measurements would be needed for this).

I am looking for recommendations for window companies. I'm on the West Side of Dublin.

If it comes down to quality vs. price, we are willing to spend the extra money on quality.