How We Saved Money on Our New Windows?
Planning for a home renovation or home improvement is sometimes very difficult. This is very true especially if you don’t have enough resources or finances to do it. That is why planning and saving money for any home remodeling or renovation is much recommended or must be done.
How did we saved money on our new windows? Here are are some tips I can share to you.
Asking some friends who has the same plan or experience.
That time, we had some friends who did some home remodeling. We asked them what was the name of the company and how much did they charged for all windows and the labor cost for dismantling and installing the new ones. We also asked for some ideas if they were able to save money on their new windows. It is good to get some ideas to some people who had the experience with the same projects.
Ask the help of the professionals.
After our friend recommended this company who is engaged in selling and installing new windows, we immediately contacted them to ask some professional advice. One thing that we want to know is also the price quote of all the new windows. One of their workers who is a professional in this field visited us once to measure all the sizes of our windows. I can still remember he had a special equipment or gadget when he was measuring each window in each room. He also asked what kind of windows (whether it is made of aluminum, composite wood or vinyl) we want to be installed. In short, after some days after he did the check-up and measurements, the price quote was also sent to us. For everything including the news windows and the labor, it cost almost 15,000.00 Euros. Wow, truly a big amount but we did not immediately grab their offer.
Try to look for advertisements in the newspaper, flyers, magazines or catalogs who offer the same services.
It was a perfect timing because we received a catalog about home renovation from a hardware store. In this store, you can find everything you need for whatever things you need considering home repairs and renovation. One of the promotions that time were various types of windows. DH, the expert and handyman in the house studied the windows that they are selling. The quality of the windows is the same like the one offered by the professional guy who did a price quote for all of our windows. As we were comparing everything, all of the 12 windows will only cost around 4,000 Euros excluding the labor in dismantling and installing it.
Compared to the company whom we asked for some professional advice, their windows alone already cost almost 9,000.00 Euros. This is a big difference of 5,000.00 Euros. Of course we considered the quality of the windows in order for us to save heater bills during winter season. This is main reason why we wanted to change our old wooden windows. To make the store short, DH manually measured all the windows and brought the measurement to the hardware store to order the new 12 windows.
Saving Money Thru DIY or Do It Yourself.
Installing new windows requires a lot of hard work, patience and energy. I am happy that DH knows everything when regards to home repairs and renovations. In fact, we already saved a lot of money in doing all of these including plumbing, car repairs and other home works. I helped him with the dismantling and installing of our new windows. After almost three weeks of doing it, the hard labor was paid off. We did not only have a new windows but it looks very much better than the old ones.
Until now, we can only smile when looking on our new and beautiful windows. Most of all, we saved a lot of money from this home project. We are indeed very happy and contented homeowners now. Most of all, it was all paid in cash because we saved from time to time before we did this home improvement. It was all indeed worth-doing it.
Of course, asking the help of the professionals are always recommended. But if you can do it by yourself, you can for sure saved more money.
