I hope you'll pardon me, but instead of trying to make decisions on this yourself, consider hiring a handyperson to try to navigate it. For non-major expenses, the extra effort probably doesn't make sense, but since this is a major expense and there's potentially someone with a lot lower margins who could do a lot more of the work, it may be worth a shot. Corporations have overhead, including shareholders. I don't know how much of the estimate are the windows themselves and how much the installation but guessing from the numbers, the installation is probably a lot of that. And if things are rotted, a handyperson might do a better job of rebuilding the framing around the window than a company focused on just installing the windows. Anderson and other windows are available wholesale at building supply companies.
Probably doesn't translate at all, but not long ago, I re-did a bunch of framing before re-installing and re-bedding windows on the camper. That was the larger part of the job and I could see a repair shop just looking the other way on that. Still have a few to do too. That's an ongoing project. The camper is basically a house framed with 1/2" x 3/4" pine sitting on a Toyota chassis. I really need to stick a modern engine in there that has EFI and a catalytic converter, not that she moves that often...
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Date: 2024-May-11, Saturday 05:23 am (UTC)Probably doesn't translate at all, but not long ago, I re-did a bunch of framing before re-installing and re-bedding windows on the camper. That was the larger part of the job and I could see a repair shop just looking the other way on that. Still have a few to do too. That's an ongoing project. The camper is basically a house framed with 1/2" x 3/4" pine sitting on a Toyota chassis. I really need to stick a modern engine in there that has EFI and a catalytic converter, not that she moves that often...