Aluminium Windows South Africa

Aluminium Windows South Africa helps you find the best quote, fast, on aluminium windows, doors and glazing across South Africa. Describe the job once - the opening sizes, the finish and whether anything has to come out first - and installers who cover your area reply with prices you can line up side by side.

• One brief instead of five site visits, so you are not repeating yourself.
• Installers who work in your province, not a national call centre.
• Ballpark figures below, so you can tell a fair quote from a hopeful one.
• From LEADERR APPROVED providers, vetted and backed by many verified 5-star reviews. Peace of mind that the frames are made properly and fitted square.
• No charge to you, and no obligation to accept any of the quotes.

Aluminium Window and Door Prices in South Africa

Ballpark ranges across the common jobs, so you can check a quotation.

What Providers Quote For

How Aluminium Work Is Priced

• By the square metre. The usual basis for windows and fixed glazing, measured on the opening.
• By the unit. Normal for doors, where the hardware matters as much as the area.
• By the linear metre. Used for balustrades, fencing and framing, where the run is the measure.
• Per opening for fitting. Installation is often separated out, particularly on a retrofit.
• Plus removal and making good. Taking out an old frame and repairing the plaster is real work with a real cost.

The Three Things That Move a Quote

• The system. The profile range the frame is built from. A light residential system and a heavy one look alike in a photograph and are not the same purchase.
• The glass. It can be a third of a large unit, and safety, laminated and double glazing each step it.
• The finish. Mill finish, anodised and powder coated are three prices and three warranties.
• Ask each quote to name all three. Two prices far apart are usually two different specifications.
• Hardware is the fourth. Rollers, hinges and locks are where a cheap window gives itself away.

Why Aluminium Is Measured, Not Bought Off a Shelf

• Everything is made to order. Profile is cut and assembled to the sizes measured on your site.
• A firm price follows a site measure. A figure off a drawing is an estimate until somebody measures.
• Openings are rarely the size they should be. Especially in an older house, which is what the measure is for.
• Lead time is part of the purchase. Several weeks between accepting a quote and the frames arriving is normal.
• Nothing can be trimmed afterwards. Toughened glass in particular is cut before it is tempered.

What to Include in Your Request

• The address. Suburb and town, so an installer knows whether they work there.
• The opening sizes. Width and height of each one, even measured roughly with a tape.
• What is there now. Steel, timber, older aluminium or a bare new opening.
• The finish you want. Natural, bronze, charcoal or a specific colour.
• Whether you are near the sea. It narrows the sensible finish and hardware.
• Photos. One of each opening from inside and one from outside saves a site visit.

Before You Accept a Quote

• Check the system is named. It explains most of the gap between two prices.
• Check the glass is specified per opening. Type and thickness, not just the word glass.
• Check what making good is included. Plaster is usually in, paint usually is not.
• Check the lead time in writing. Made to order means a date, and a date that slips costs you a trade.
• Check who measured. A price given without a site measure is an estimate.

Where This Work Is Needed Most

• Replacing rusted steel frames. The most common aluminium job in older South African houses.
• Opening a house onto a patio. Sliding and folding doors where a wall or a small window was.
• Noise from a busy road. Where double glazing is bought for the reason it works best.
• New builds and additions. Where the energy requirements of SANS 10400-XA apply to the glazing.
• Security without burglar bars. Shutters and laminated glass instead of bars across the view.

Frequently Asked Questions