What windows cost in Steyning: seven example jobs, smallest first
These are illustrative examples of typical jobs on the kinds of houses found in and around Steyning. They are not records of finished jobs. Your written quote comes after a survey.
Each total covers supply, fitting, removal of the old frames and making good inside and out, including VAT. Where upstairs windows on a small job need scaffold, about £500 of the total is for that. Rotten sills, damaged brick arches and bay support are priced after the survey because they vary from house to house.
The second and sixth examples are the same cottage priced in uPVC and in timber, so you can see the difference for yourself.
Illustrative example of a typical job of this kind
Three flush casements at the back of a flint cottage, two full size and one small
A two-storey flint cottage with red brick quoins and window dressings, the kind that lines the lanes behind Steyning High Street. The back of the house faces a small garden and cannot be seen from the street.
Two uPVC flush casements, about 1000 by 1200 mm, to the kitchen and back bedroom, and one small flush casement, about 600 by 900 mm, to the bathroom, all white
Slim putty-line glazing bars to match the front
Scaffold for the two upstairs windows, old frames removed, made good inside and out
Typically £3,450 to £5,500, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
Back windows on a cottage are where most Steyning owners start, because they rot first and nobody passing sees them.
Illustrative example of a typical job of this kind
Four uPVC flush casements and a front door on a brick-and-flint cottage
A Victorian brick-and-flint cottage in a short terrace of the sort found on the edge of the old town. Not listed, inside the conservation area, so the new windows must look like what is there now.
Four uPVC flush casements, about 1000 by 1200 mm, two up and two down
Off-white frames, external putty-line bars dividing each opening light in two
A composite front door in a heritage green, with a small glazed top panel
Scaffold for the upstairs windows
Typically £7,100 to £12,300, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
This is the same cottage as the timber casement example further down. Same openings, same bar pattern and the same door: on the windows alone, uPVC costs roughly half.
Illustrative example of a typical job of this kind
Three timber box sashes on a listed brick-fronted house
A listed house of the Church Street type: an older timber frame refronted in red and brown brick in the eighteenth century. Listed building consent decides the material, and on a house like this it will be timber.
Three timber box sash windows, about 900 by 1800 mm: one either side of the door and one above it
Glazing bar pattern copied from the surviving windows, slim double glazing only if the conservation officer agrees
Painted finish, cords and weights
From £7,950 installed (from £2,650 installed per window), supplied and fitted, including VAT. Scaffold for the upper window adds about £500.
On a listed house, ask first whether the old sashes can be repaired. Horsham District Council's appraisal for Steyning says that repair should come first, and many surveyors will tell you the same.
Illustrative example of a typical job of this kind
Six aluminium flush casements on a Maudlyn bungalow, Bramber
A detached brick bungalow from the last quarter of the twentieth century in the Maudlyn part of Bramber, outside the conservation area. Single storey, so no scaffold.
Six aluminium flush casements, about 1000 by 1200 mm
Dark grey outside, white inside, no glazing bars
Old uPVC or timber frames removed and made good
Typically £8,900 to £14,350, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
Slim aluminium suits the plain brick of these later houses and gives more glass for the same opening than chunky 1990s uPVC.
Illustrative example of a typical job of this kind
Five heritage uPVC sashes on a Station Road villa
A late Victorian semi-detached villa of the railway-suburb kind, built after the line opened in 1861, with gables and four-pane sashes. Not listed.
Five uPVC vertical sliding sashes, about 900 by 1800 mm: four on the front, two up and two down, and one on the side wall by the stairs
Cream woodgrain finish with run-through horns and a single vertical bar in each sash to match the four-pane originals
Scaffold for the upper floor
Typically £9,400 to £13,400, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
The polygonal bay on many of these villas is priced separately after a survey, because bay support and sills vary from house to house.
Illustrative example of a typical job of this kind
Four timber flush casements and a front door on the same brick-and-flint cottage
The cottage from the uPVC example above, priced in painted timber instead.
Four timber flush casements, about 1000 by 1200 mm, two up and two down
Same putty-line bar layout, factory primed and painted
The same composite front door as the uPVC example
Scaffold for the upstairs windows
Typically £10,700 to £19,700, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
Expect the first repaint about three years after fitting, and then a fresh coat at regular intervals, more often on a south or west wall that takes the weather off the Downs. Choose it where the house is listed or where you want it, not because you think the conservation area insists.
Illustrative example of a typical job of this kind
Eight aluminium casements and French doors on a 1970s detached house
A 1970s detached house on the outer edge of Steyning, of the kind built along roads such as Coxham Lane and Bramber Road as the town grew. Brick and tile-hung, with tired original frames.
Eight slimline aluminium casements across both floors
One pair of aluminium French doors, about 1500 by 2100 mm, to the garden
Anthracite outside, white inside
Typically £14,350 to £26,450, supplied and fitted, including VAT.
The whole-house job is where aluminium makes most sense: every frame matches and the slim sightlines open the house to the garden and the Downs.
