Oxfordshire· Supplied & fitted, or supplied only
Sliding sash windows in Bicester
An old market town carrying one of the fastest housing expansions in the county, including serious self-build activity.
What is built in Bicester
Bicester keeps a market town core with older brick frontages and a conservation area around the church and the main streets, and Victorian terraces close in. Everything beyond that is recent: large planned developments have added very substantial numbers of homes on the edges of the town, alongside self-build plots where individual owners commission their own houses. The result is a stock split between a small historic centre and a very large modern periphery.
What that means for your windows
Self-build changes the conversation, because the buyer is specifying a window for a house that does not exist yet rather than replacing one in a house that does. That puts the whole weight on the schedule of sizes and on getting the specification decided early: colour, glass, glazing bar layout and hardware, all fixed before manufacture, with a lead time confirmed in writing so it can be planned into the build programme rather than discovered late.
Two ways to buy in Bicester
Bicester is inside the area our own fitting teams cover, so you can have the whole job done by one company. You can also buy the windows on their own if you have a builder already, which is how most trade customers order.
- Supplied and fitted. We survey your openings before anything is ordered, so the sizes are our responsibility rather than yours. Our own teams fit, take the old windows away and make good the plaster line, and you get a FENSA certificate and an insurance-backed guarantee on completion.
- Supplied only. You send a schedule of sizes, choose the colour, glass, hardware and glazing bar layout, and the windows are delivered kerbside for your own fitter. Popular with builders, developers, self-builders and landlords. On a supply-only order the sizes are yours, because nobody from our side has seen the openings.
1.3 W/m²K as standard, 1.2 with enhanced glazing.
Secured by Design available, satisfying Document Q.
Equivalent to gusts of up to around 115mph.
Plus our workmanship where we have fitted them.
Questions we get asked in Bicester
How does ordering work for a self-build plot?
It is a supply-only order. You provide a schedule of sizes taken from the drawings or the built openings, choose the specification, and take kerbside delivery to the plot. The lead time is confirmed in writing against your order so it can sit in the build programme, and someone needs to be on site to receive and check the load.
How early should windows be specified in a build?
Earlier than most people expect, because the specification affects the lead time and the lead time affects everything that follows it on site. Fixing colour, glass and glazing bar layout at the point the openings are confirmed gives the most room, and it avoids a change that resets manufacture.
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Get a quote for Bicester
Send a photograph of the front of the property and roughly how many windows are involved, and we will tell you what is realistic before anyone comes out. For a supply-only order, send your schedule of sizes.
Call 0800 861 1450, message us on WhatsApp, or email info@sashwindowfactory.co.uk.