ᐅ Price difference between windows, fixed glass panels, and masonry?
Created on: 19 Aug 2023 17:51
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Hausbauer4747
We have planned a floor-to-ceiling double door on the ground floor layout (approximately 215 cm high and 150 cm wide, around 3.2 m² (34.4 sq ft) of glass area, two opening doors) and would like to replace this double door or double window with a fixed window to create a built-in window seat on the inside through a carpenter.
This means the position on the floor plan would remain the same, as well as the width and the top edge. The fixed glass element would then no longer be floor-to-ceiling at the bottom, but would end approximately 50 cm (20 inches) above the floor (then about 2.5 m² (27 sq ft)).
I expected a lower price because the window area would be about 20-25% smaller and the entire door mechanism would be eliminated. However, the construction company is now quoting an additional cost of 400 euros net / about 480 euros gross, because the extra 50 cm at the bottom requires additional masonry work, an exterior windowsill, and the fixed glass element is large and heavy in one piece.
The windowsill cost makes sense to me, though in the building specification we don’t have particularly expensive windowsills (exterior windowsills made of aluminum including anti-drumming foil with side closure profiles and drip edges). I did not expect about 0.8 m² (8.6 sq ft) of additional masonry to be a major cost factor, at least not more than the potential savings from the smaller window.
Does anyone have experience or advice on how to assess these costs?
This means the position on the floor plan would remain the same, as well as the width and the top edge. The fixed glass element would then no longer be floor-to-ceiling at the bottom, but would end approximately 50 cm (20 inches) above the floor (then about 2.5 m² (27 sq ft)).
I expected a lower price because the window area would be about 20-25% smaller and the entire door mechanism would be eliminated. However, the construction company is now quoting an additional cost of 400 euros net / about 480 euros gross, because the extra 50 cm at the bottom requires additional masonry work, an exterior windowsill, and the fixed glass element is large and heavy in one piece.
The windowsill cost makes sense to me, though in the building specification we don’t have particularly expensive windowsills (exterior windowsills made of aluminum including anti-drumming foil with side closure profiles and drip edges). I did not expect about 0.8 m² (8.6 sq ft) of additional masonry to be a major cost factor, at least not more than the potential savings from the smaller window.
Does anyone have experience or advice on how to assess these costs?
xMisterDx schrieb:
Using an internal privacy screen is on Amnesty’s list too, right after Russian torture prisons and North Korean penal camps.
Now you have dozens of opinions... and as I said at the beginning, none of it helps you at all, right? 😉
Do it at that price and skip buying something that can be added later. Otherwise, in the end, you might have to move out and tear everything down because you don’t have an external venetian blind in the bathroom and have to move your arm twice a day. Unacceptable, I’m still shocked that a construction company would do something like that without protesting. A bit off-topic, but: Almost everyone participating in this forum discusses luxury problems. Here in Germany, we live on an "island of the blessed." So you can gladly make fun of it — I “take it like a man” 😎 and stretch my belly in the sun.