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MrsDerpson31B t1_j9q6h2g wrote

Reply to comment by Present-Substance-82 in Help needed with replacing a window by Present-Substance-82

I'm sorry you're dealing with that, most window places are an absolute ripoff. This should cost less than $500 all in--materials and labor.

Try calling up a building materials store that sells windows and ask them for a recommendation for an installer for their windows--better chance to talk to someone that knows what they're doing.

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Present-Substance-82 OP t1_j9qqjvd wrote

1 ‘pro’ did not want to take the job. Other Carpenter asks almost 3000 euro’s for 2 windows. Material costs are only 700 so that’s worth doing it myself

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MrsDerpson31B t1_j9r0fko wrote

Ouch, I hear stuff like that all the time though. Fucking vultures. My partner and I have a window/door install company, and we have people buy their windows directly from the manufacturer per our measurements and then pay us for the install after it's done. We make more per window than any of those companies will ever pay installers, and the people that hire us save like 40% of what they would've paid those scammers. It's bananas, sometimes we have to convince people that we're not scammers because they don't understand how we can be that much lower than "the industry standard".

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