General inquiry, how do you count windows?

[Incheck]

I’m interested to know how you all “count” windows. On a number of occasions customers have said how many windows they have (i dont ask as i price in person via viewing, but in their mind its to help me gauge size of the house i guess ?‍) 

e.g. front of semis with bay windows, there are often 4 or 5 windows on the bay, now to some customers that classes as “a window” to me it classes as 5 windows (you’d have to move the ladder & get up & down it 5 times, you also have to shuffle your feet and wfp 5 times) same at the bottom, one bay but 5 windows.

so theres 10 straight away before the front door or single window at the top above the door. It crazes me to think people class bay windows as one window. 

As for a 4 pane unit e.g. 2 top openers and two larger bottom panes i just class that as one large window. 

Some people would say if it has a pane, surrounded by a frame, its a window. 

still. It doesn’t really matter as in my mind i’ll price what a jobs worth...but just generally interested, as i do scratch my head when people say they’ve got 12 windows, you show up and there’s more like 25 ? cheers.

- my general assumption would be is each individually fitted unit is a window?

 

[Chris34]

Good question, I class a bay as 1 window.  I've only just started so I might look at your approach as the glass is the easy bit, the more frames the more work.

 

[Skxawng]

I count the panes of glass when I'm pricing. I never go on a customers description of their windows. "1 window" can be anywhere from a frosted side window to a 12 pane bay.

I use Google earth if I don't want to drive there as you can use the 3d to get an all round view of the house from every angle in surprisingly high detail. Enough to count the number, size, type and position of the windows as well as assess access.

 

[P4dstar]

Hate when people start telling me how many windows they have... I don't care. I'd be more likely to give them a price if they told me how many bedrooms the house was and even then it would only be a rough price.

 

[Incheck]

I count the panes of glass when I'm pricing. I never go on a customers description of their windows. "1 window" can be anywhere from a frosted side window to a 12 pane bay.

I use Google earth if I don't want to drive there as you can use the 3d to get an all round view of the house from every angle in surprisingly high detail. Enough to count the number, size, type and position of the windows as well as assess access.

Precisely! That made me laugh lol

 

[akbarjan]

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