Well that was more than I expected!

[d000hg]

Had one company come to quote on renovating wooden sash windows recently, and their quote came through.

Bottom line is, a grand per window... they're fairly standard 2 over 2 windows. In decent-ish nick with some repairs to timbers needed and then the standard renovation treatment. This is not to replace any glass, or to re-paint - it's to repair the frames and sashes as needed then draughtproof them.

That seems a heck of a lot to me. Especially as I'm sure the person said they expect one person would do one window per day, on-site. Or am I just out of touch?

 

[chappers]

my mate used to do this for a living up until about 4 years ago and he was charging about that, to repair take apart strip and repaint sashes off site, strip and repaint boxes, re-string and draft proof, in Oxford

 

[d000hg]

This wasn't including stripping and painting... Except where it was interfering with the movement of the window.