Hi There, so how do you rate your windows now that you have had them for a few years
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Browse Forums Windows & Doors Re: My double glazed windows from China 81Aug 28, 2018 8:40 am Freddybare I have received a couple of quotes from China and have pretty much decided on one company, Double glazed 5mm toughened glass, aluminum/wood (outside/inside) tilt and turn, Low E glass, argon filled they have a Low U value and pass AS2047 and the company has AWA membership. I haven't ordered my windows as of yet but the price is less than half of the Australian quote and they were thermally broken aluminum, double glazed, awnings, with toughened glass, no where near as comparable as the product I was quoted from china, I'm still a little apprehensive, due to quality, shipping and warranty. but I guess time will tell. Hi There, so how do you rate your windows now that you have had them for a few years regards Chrisw Re: My double glazed windows fro China 82Oct 30, 2018 12:36 pm Hi Guys, I've been importing windows from China to Melbourne for a long time now. It's my livelihood. Anyone who needs advice let me know. All I can say is, the windows I've dealt with are far superior compared to local. From the sealants to the finishes. And some factories actually use international brand hardware, sealants and adhesives to assemble their windows, so majority of the product isn't even chinese when made up. Re: My double glazed windows fro China 83Oct 30, 2018 12:41 pm Isaac4230 Hi Guys, I've been importing windows from China to Melbourne for a long time now. It's my livelihood. Anyone who needs advice let me know. All I can say is, the windows I've dealt with are far superior compared to local. From the sealants to the finishes. And some factories actually use international brand hardware, sealants and adhesives to assemble their windows, so majority of the product isn't even chinese when made up. does it come with AS2047 ? Re: My double glazed windows fro China 84Oct 30, 2018 12:58 pm cascade Isaac4230 Hi Guys, I've been importing windows from China to Melbourne for a long time now. It's my livelihood. Anyone who needs advice let me know. All I can say is, the windows I've dealt with are far superior compared to local. From the sealants to the finishes. And some factories actually use international brand hardware, sealants and adhesives to assemble their windows, so majority of the product isn't even chinese when made up. does it come with AS2047 ? Yes, AS2047 and AS2188 for the glazing. Full disclosure, my family business is aluminium window & door manufacturing in China, 25 years in the business. We manufacture our own aluminium profiles out of 6063 Aluminium Billets, press them into 2.0mm thick profiles, use H.B Fuller sealants (American), ROTO hardware (German), and AZKO-NOBEL powdercoat finishes (Rylock uses the same). Melbourne is just one of the few places in the world we import to. Cheers Re: My double glazed windows fro China 85Feb 05, 2019 5:37 am Hey all, I am un Sydney and looking for someone to guide me to the relevant showrooms or contacts. Have about 20 windows in Sydney needing soudproofing. Re: My double glazed windows fro China 86Feb 05, 2019 5:38 am Hey all, I am un Sydney and looking for someone to guide me to the relevant showrooms or contacts. Have about 20 windows in Sydney. Re: My double glazed windows fro China 87Nov 25, 2019 6:54 pm Isaac4230 Hi Guys, I've been importing windows from China to Melbourne for a long time now. It's my livelihood. Anyone who needs advice let me know. All I can say is, the windows I've dealt with are far superior compared to local. From the sealants to the finishes. And some factories actually use international brand hardware, sealants and adhesives to assemble their windows, so majority of the product isn't even chinese when made up. Hi Isaac, wondering where you are based and do you import Windows for owner builders? We are building in Gippsland but i don't want to go through the worry of importing myself. Kind regards Cheryl Re: My double glazed windows fro China 88Nov 30, 2019 5:52 pm I really cannot recommend isuperhouse windows. I bought two and they came with holes cut in them to drain water, but the holes were through the entire window. It meant that when the windows were closed, there were still holes. I plugged them with some sealant but the windows are pretty loud since they have holes in them.
I have to get more products and Ill try jolong because I think they actually have an australian ABN or whatever, so when things go wrong you can get replacement products. I didn't even notice until Id paid a carpenter to put them in. It was only after I realized that these windows are complete garbage and I completely waster my money and my time on them. Re: My double glazed windows fro China 91Nov 30, 2019 6:51 pm That's idiotic. Australians do it at a cost of 10x the foreign price. I'm unhappy, but I can buy these windows 9 more times before they'd approach the cost of doing it in Australia. In addition, you know there is no entirely Australian window right? They all use imported Chinese glass or imported European systems? I'm all for saving Australian jobs but what you're really saying is "save Australian middlemen". Re: My double glazed windows fro China 92Nov 30, 2019 6:57 pm Not really i priced it all ,china $25000 for double glazed aluminium Australia @$31000 With a warranty that you can count on plus help keep manufacturing jobs going Re: My double glazed windows fro China 93Nov 30, 2019 7:02 pm rammedearthtas Not really i priced it all ,china $25000 for double glazed aluminium Australia @$31000 With a warranty that you can count on plus help keep manufacturing jobs going If that's true please prove it and show your receipts/quotes and from who with your real name blotted out. There's just no way that's true at all. Re: My double glazed windows fro China 94Nov 30, 2019 7:10 pm John Dodds That's idiotic. Australians do it at a cost of 10x the foreign price. I'm unhappy, but I can buy these windows 9 more times before they'd approach the cost of doing it in Australia. In addition, you know there is no entirely Australian window right? They all use imported Chinese glass or imported European systems? I'm all for saving Australian jobs but what you're really saying is "save Australian middlemen". Re: My double glazed windows fro China 95Nov 30, 2019 7:41 pm Look I'm not going to argue reality with you. I'm sorry if you're in the window business in Australia. But you should be sorry that your industry is rorting Australians and have been doing it for years now. The fact is that the markup is close to 10x. This isn't something we have to debate. Take a window schedule and send it to me. I will run it past a local shop, and then I'll run it past a shop in the UK and a Chinese outfit. The markup will be markup will be between 500% and 1000% of the cost. Before we account for shipping. Or you do it. Choose whatever shops you want. The most expensive shop in China wont come close to a random Australian shop No offense, but you have no idea what you're talking about business wise and this is why the building stock of Australia is medically retarded compared to other developed countries. And I don't mean 'retarded' in the insulting sense, I mean it in the medical sense. The housing stock is has been retarded by inefficient building practices and that's why these houses are uninsulated shacks. >it's this sort of practice which has led to so much flammable illegal cladding all over Australia,remove tons of steps,tons of jobs,and risk increases big time,go set up a window business and find out the add ons. The WINDOW business SHOULD FACE UP TO REALITY. You WILL NOT or CANNOT make windows at a competitive price. If another country is beating you by a factor of TEN, it's time to stop. You know what the window business should do? Accept that fact and get into window replacements. If windows are 10x cheaper from china, everybody should change their windows and door 10x more than they did before. But you don't see that mentality here, you see stupididty and theivery. Just look at velux windows. LOL. Anywhere else int he WORLD a roof window is 300-$500. Here its what? $1,200 aud? Hahah.. and theyre IMPORTED. From AMERICA. It's a goddam crime. A GODDAMN CRIME. Have you ever seen the STATISTICS of how many Australians use WOOD HEAT??? To heat their UNINSULATED SHACKS with SINGLE GLAZED WINDOWS???! THERE SHOULD BE A ******* ROYAL COMMISSION INTO THAT. ITS EMBARRASSING. AND ITS ALL BECAUSE YOU LOT WANT TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A ******* WINDOW> Re: My double glazed windows fro China 96Nov 30, 2019 7:48 pm John Dodds Look I'm not going to argue reality with you. I'm sorry if you're in the window business in Australia. But you should be sorry that your industry is rorting Australians and have been doing it for years now. The fact is that the markup is close to 10x. This isn't something we have to debate. Take a window schedule and send it to me. I will run it past a local shop, and then I'll run it past a shop in the UK and a Chinese outfit. The markup will be markup will be between 500% and 1000% of the cost. Before we account for shipping. Or you do it. Choose whatever shops you want. The most expensive shop in China wont come close to a random Australian shop No offense, but you have no idea what you're talking about business wise and this is why the building stock of Australia is medically retarded compared to other developed countries. And I don't mean 'retarded' in the insulting sense, I mean it in the medical sense. The housing stock is has been retarded by inefficient building practices and that's why these houses are uninsulated shacks. >it's this sort of practice which has led to so much flammable illegal cladding all over Australia,remove tons of steps,tons of jobs,and risk increases big time,go set up a window business and find out the add ons. The WINDOW business SHOULD FACE UP TO REALITY. You WILL NOT or CANNOT make windows at a competitive price. If another country is beating you by a factor of TEN, it's time to stop. You know what the window business should do? Accept that fact and get into window replacements. If windows are 10x cheaper from china, everybody should change their windows and door 10x more than they did before. But you don't see that mentality here, you see stupididty and theivery. Just look at velux windows. LOL. Anywhere else int he WORLD a roof window is 300-$500. Here its what? $1,200 aud? Hahah.. and theyre IMPORTED. From AMERICA. It's a goddam crime. A GODDAMN CRIME. Have you ever seen the STATISTICS of how many Australians use WOOD HEAT??? To heat their UNINSULATED SHACKS with SINGLE GLAZED WINDOWS???! THERE SHOULD BE A ******* ROYAL COMMISSION INTO THAT. ITS EMBARRASSING. AND ITS ALL BECAUSE YOU LOT WANT TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A ******* WINDOW> Re: My double glazed windows fro China 97Nov 30, 2019 7:56 pm Yup. So I said the markup is 1000% and you said it's not. And you can't offer any proof. Because the markup is 1000%. Re: My double glazed windows fro China 98Nov 30, 2019 8:13 pm John Dodds rammedearthtas Not really i priced it all ,china $25000 for double glazed aluminium Australia @$31000 With a warranty that you can count on plus help keep manufacturing jobs going If that's true please prove it and show your receipts/quotes and from who with your real name blotted out. There's just no way that's true at all. Ok give me a few days as I'm in Bali heading home tomorrow Re: My double glazed windows fro China 99Nov 30, 2019 8:30 pm Oh yes it is, build about 4 years ago and have thermally broken double glazed windows tilt n turn with roto hardware including a five door wood grain look bi fold 2 sets of French doors all thermally broken,and 19 windows from a Geelong company 30,400 installed with 5 years warranty . Re: My double glazed windows fro China 100Dec 01, 2019 8:40 am Windows here in Oz are off the scale cost wise compared to uk , although you are not comparing apples with apples as 90% of windows in uk are Upvc and in Oz aluminium Glass is glass though and this is where there is a huge difference I could bye double glazed units in UK fir around £30m2 it’s well on 5 times that ( about $350) in Oz The average Australian is getting ripped off I don't know them all, the first 2 top of your list are best known. 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