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  • Nice one, I never buy anything on credit so I'd not thought about getting them that way but if it's 0% then that could be a good shout. did you get hardwood or MDF? I want hard wood but obviously they're more even more spendy. I went to a mates place that had the MDF ones, they were only a couple of years old and started to look really tatty which really put me off them.

  • I had shutters fitted 18m ago, Front Room, Bedroom, Bathroom and Bedroom. I think it was £4k all in...went with Diamond Shutters in Sidcup (10min walk down the road for me)

    TBH they made an utter cock of the front room as its an odd shape and huge but the other rooms were fine. They also did my in-laws, they have been very pleased.

    I think our front room debacle stemmed from us wanting the solid panels at the bottom to work independently from the top. We could not have this and then it lead to confusion as to what we were actually getting. With the final product below, my annoyance was with the owner who responded with, 'I did try and tell you it would not work but you insisted' trouble was he did not sketch anything out and the final product I had in my head looked different.....As we had no signed drawing to fall back on it was a bit of a botch. We have a right angle to the left which pushed the frame out from the left meaning everything shifted over....we should have had 5 separate panels so the frames aligned

    This is from the outside:

  • I got a quote from diamond shutters recently. a gr8 big fat bloke turned up in a mini, quoted me a grand more than anyone else then kept swearing to god that they were the best.

  • Cheers to you and @Soul for all the info, you guys have got big old bay windows in your living rooms which I'm assuming are a fair bit more pricey than a single sash window? Leaning more towards fitting them myself but you guys have definitely given me food for thought.

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