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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.
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Sounds about right, TBH most of the companies do the same thing. The shutters are manufactured in China and shipped over, these guys just measure and fit rectangular shutters into rectangular holes. Hence why you'll have a 2-3 month wait for installation, they are on a slow boat from China.
Its not a 'craft'
Cornish_Bike
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: