ᐅ Wood and Aluminum Windows – Which Manufacturer? Any Recommendations?

11ant schrieb:
"Pharmacy price" is relative. On one hand, most home builders have a distorted sense of value for money. This is partly because windows are usually one of the last items addressed, and there is a strong temptation to compensate for a runaway budget at this point. This causes many customers to lean toward vinyl (PVC) windows, even if they would have preferred something else. On the other hand, it makes them susceptible to low-cost offers that appear flawless on the surface. With windows, quality simply becomes apparent later than with shoes.

And thirdly – but ultimately building on the motivation described above for the preference of vinyl – there are customers in the aluminum window segment who want to demonstrate that they can spend extra money. This keeps the price level for aluminum at a more profitable range.

If someone then adds a spoonful of caviar and asks for wood-aluminum windows, this (because they are more complex and produced by far fewer manufacturers) can hardly be anything but more expensive in a free market. So you do get a solid value, but the price-weary consumer naturally thinks, "they must be crazy."

That’s why I always say with wood-aluminum that it’s clearly not for those on a tight budget. You pay with the platinum card. PAX offers high quality and all materials, including wood with custom profiles for heritage conservation. Those were my two main motives for choosing PAX over continuing my own production.

Of course, wood-aluminum windows cost more than vinyl, but
at three times the price, that’s where I draw the line.
All in all, the PAX windows are twice as expensive as the Nestlé wood-aluminum ones from my general contractor. It makes you wonder whether that is justified.

arnonyme schrieb:
In the end, the Pax windows are twice as expensive as the Nestlé wood-aluminum ones from my general contractor. That definitely makes you wonder if it’s justified.

I want to emphasize that I’m not judging this as a client or planner, but as a management member of a window supplier facing the question of whether to remain a manufacturer myself. Yes, price differences can be much wider than the end customer might consider reasonable.

For example, with wood-aluminum windows, a manufacturer might take the position that since the aluminum outer shell provides weather protection, the wood used inside can be of a type suitable only for interior applications. The area of locking mechanisms and fittings also leaves some room for variation. So the price-performance ratio can actually be worse with the “cheaper” supplier.

Customers don’t do themselves any favors by putting pressure on prices; small window manufacturers are dying off in large numbers. Once the market has “cleared,” prices will rise again.

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