Gewürzt-
If you are north or east, give shades of Chingford a look. Family firm, been around ages, good workmanship.
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I guess the frames for the bay windows are more complex so more expensive. I think the panel are where most of the money goes though.
We've got 11 panels, each with two separate shutter mechanisms in them (top and bottom windows) and all are with hidden louvers. <- £££
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I measured and fitted them myself. It was waaaay cheaper and quite easy to fit - each frame is just a few screws, and the shutters fit straight in. If you're reasonable with a drill and caulk gun (ahem) you can probably do it.
You obviously really need to take your time measuring - for example on our (victorian) bay window, the 'side' windows were different widths, the height of each pane was different, and the bottom sill wasn't level (so the height of the window was different depending on which side of the pane you measured :) All out by only 5ish mm, but the differences matter...
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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: