One handle, two positions: fully open to clean the outside, or tilted open to air the room while you're out — tilt and turn windows in uPVC or aluminium, made to your size.
Made to measure in uPVC or aluminium, in any RAL colour. Delivery to the UK is quoted with your offer.
What comparable projects cost, by material. This is a guide price from our own quote archive — not a quote and not a final price: the amount for your own sizes, profile, glass and colour is in the quote.
for a unit of 1,000 × 1,400 mm
typically £320 to £448 per unit, excl. UK VAT and import duties The spread is too wide for a single amount; this is the range they fell within. measured on 94 quotes from our own archive
Uf from 0.86
Configure in uPVC and request a quotetypically £526 to £780 per unit, excl. UK VAT and import duties The spread is too wide for a single amount; this is the range they fell within. measured on 38 quotes from our own archive
Uf from 0.57
Configure in aluminium and request a quoteThis is a guide price, not a quote and not a final price. The amount for your own sizes is in the made-to-measure quote, which you request through the configurator.
Choose the material and window type and enter the outside size. You see what a window of that size usually cost in our quotes. This is a guide price, not a quote: the real price for your window arrives within three working days in your made-to-measure quote.
In whole pounds, excluding VAT, import duties, delivery and fitting. Worked out with the price per m² of comparable windows in our quote archive; colour, glazing and layout can still move the amount.
Uf, frame depth and sightline come from the profile table. The corner section is the manufacturer's render of exactly this profile: for Aluprof always the same shot — closed corner, close up — and for Gealan the render of the S 9000 NL family. The maximum sash width is on every profile page.
Tilt and turn is the standard window of north-west Europe, and not by accident. The same handle does two things: turned horizontally, the sash swings fully open into the room; turned upright, the top of the sash tilts inwards. That second position is why it is so common — you can air a room without the window standing wide open, in the rain and while you're not at home. Unlike an outward-opening casement, both positions open inwards, which is also how you clean the outside pane from indoors.
Technically a tilt and turn window is the same section as a side-hung casement; the difference is in the hardware. That also means the price difference comes from the hardware and not from the profile. A tilt and turn window has its own sash frame, and that costs you sightline: it adds 40 to 60 mm of profile compared with a fixed light in the same place.
The practical limit is the sash width. Every profile has a maximum for the widest opening part — for our tilt and turn profiles it lies between 1,350 and 1,600 mm — and that maximum exists because the pivot point has to carry the weight. A wide, tall tilt and turn sash with triple glazing gets heavy, and heavy hardware drops sooner. Two narrower sashes are better than one wide one.
At a window of this size uPVC is the cheaper of the two, and you can see that in the figures above. It only turns around at door and patio sizes, where aluminium manages with less profile. What aluminium does offer here is a slimmer sightline — from 89 mm with the Reynaers CS 77 against 119 mm with the Gealan S 9000 — and a lower frame U-value: Uf 0.57 with the MB-86N against 1.10 for uPVC. What that means per material is worked out on the two material pages below.
Then there are Building Regulations. In England, Approved Document L sets the limit for a replacement window in an existing home: a U-value of 1.4 W/m²K or Window Energy Rating band B, and the new window may not be worse than the one it replaces. Take care which U-value that is. Part L asks for the Uw of the whole window — frame and glass together. Our profile cards show Uf, the frame alone, and the glass has its own Ug; neither of those is the figure Part L asks for, and a low Uf on its own does not make a compliant window. The Uw of the whole window is in your offer, and that is the figure your installer needs. For a tilt and turn window the sash frame counts in that figure, which is one reason the profile choice still matters. We don't work out here whether your window passes: that depends on your size, your glass and your profile, and the Uw in the offer is the answer to that question.
The condition that catches people out has nothing to do with the glass. Replacing windows is notifiable building work in England and Wales. Either the installer is registered with a competent person scheme — such as FENSA or Certass — and notifies the work themselves, or you notify building control before the work starts. Because we supply and don't install, this is not something we can do for you: it sits with whoever fits the window, so agree it with them before you order. Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own rules; check them locally. Ventilation is part of the same conversation with your installer — a trickle vent is in our options list at step 6 if you need one.
The row above shows which profiles are eligible for a tilt and turn window . There are fewer choices than it looks, because there is a pair among them that differs only in profile shape. What is left is a choice on three figures: how deep the frame is, how wide it shows, and how well it insulates.
A tilt window only tilts in at the top; a tilt and turn window does that and also opens fully. You work both positions with one handle. If you only want the tilt position, a bottom-hung (tilt-in) window is the form for it.
If a tilt and turn window won't close, the handle is often halfway between two positions, or the sash has come off its hinge. Turn the handle back to the turn position and push the sash square into the frame. If that doesn't help, the hardware needs adjusting.
A lockable handle stops the window being opened from outside or by children; you choose it in the configurator. The tilt position isn't a locked position: a tilted window is open.
No form first: you watch your window take shape as you choose. The price follows in the quote, within three working days.
The hardware, nothing else. The same geometry, the same sash dimensions, the same sightline. A side-hung casement only swings open; a tilt and turn also tilts inwards at the top. Any price difference comes from that hardware and is in your offer; the configurator itself shows no price.
That differs per profile and is on each profile page as the maximum sash width. For the profiles that can take a tilt and turn window it lies between 1,350 and 1,600 mm. If you are close to the limit, ask us.
They open inwards, in both positions; that is how the hardware works. The handle side you choose yourself: in the configurator you set, per sash, which side the hinges are on, seen from inside. Give it a moment's thought: a window that swings open against a curtain, a radiator or an adjoining wall is a window you won't use.
Only if you are sure you won't use the tilt position — above a worktop where you throw the window wide open anyway, or in a room with mechanical ventilation where background ventilation is already taken care of. It saves on hardware, not on profile or glass, and you can't leave a side-hung window slightly open when you go out. That last point is why tilt and turn became the norm.
Only the opening angle. Both are hinged at the bottom. A tilt-only window stays at a narrow gap; a hopper tilts further into the room and so gives a real opening — but also takes up more room space. A tilt-only window is what you use where a swinging sash would be in the way: above a worktop, behind a desk, in a hallway.
Not without risk: the tilt position is a gap, not a seal, and rain driven against the wall gets in through that gap. Close the window in strong wind or persistent rain, even if it was only tilted. If you want a window that can stay open like a small canopy in the rain, look at a top-hung window: it is hinged at the top and opens outwards at the bottom — a different opening type from tilt and turn.
uPVC is the cheaper of the two at this size and, with Uf 1.10, insulates amply for an ordinary window. You choose aluminium for one of two reasons: a slimmer sightline, so more glass, or the lowest frame U-value there is — the MB-86N at 0.57. Note that the two don't go together: the slim sightline and the lowest U-value are not in the same profile.
We don\'t know, and that is why we don\'t say so. KOMO is a Dutch quality mark that hangs on the manufacturer and its production line — for uPVC facade elements under BRL 0703 — and not on us as the seller. If you need it for a specification or an insurer, ask us before you order: we will request it and pass on exactly what is there.
No, and this is where made-to-measure goes wrong most expensively. You order on the **outside size of the frame**: exactly the size you enter at step 4, and exactly what we supply. The size you have in mind is often the structural opening, and that is a different size. Translating one into the other, including the fitting gap you want to leave, is up to you; we don't take it over, because we don't install and don't know your opening. The configurator has a measuring guide that helps you think it through, but the size you enter stays yours. What we guarantee is the manufacture: ±2 mm up to a metre and ±3 mm above that, with at most 1 and 2 mm difference respectively between the diagonals. If we are outside that, we remake the unit free of charge to the size you ordered. A measuring error in the size you gave is not covered — for that there is a second chance at cost price. Every size is measured and recorded before dispatch, and that measurement sheet goes with the order confirmation.
Handle to the side: the window turns fully open. Handle up: it tilts in at the top. Handle down: closed and locked.
A window with two positions, turn and tilt, worked with one handle.
A window that only tilts in at the top. With us that's a bottom-hung (tilt-in) window; a tilt and turn window does it too.
Not as the British outward-opening casement: our side-hung and tilt and turn sashes open inwards. If what you are after is the flush look, with frame and sash in one plane, that is the Aluplast Ideal 4000, a flush uPVC profile 70 mm deep. Choose it as the profile in the configurator, with tilt and turn or side-hung sashes.
Where we have a guide price, it is on the page, not behind a form — not a quote and not a final price; the amount for your sizes is in the made-to-measure quote.
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