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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
I rarely write reviews but feel compelled to alert potential future clients of Anglian Windows of the shocking service we experienced. This will seem a long review but in no way reflects the protracted list of issues we experienced from start to finish over 14 months, however I will try to keep this succinct. We chose Anglian after several quotes and lots of research because of their assurance of “unparalleled levels of customer service” and quality of materials and workmanship. Regrettably, nothing could be further from the truth. We placed our order in May 2021 and a survey was completed in June, we scrutinised this and found it to be incorrect, the revised version was also incorrect so this took 3 attempts. The installation was delayed until Sept and during and after this a large number of snags were identified by both the fitters and ourselves. These included scratched windows with scuffed/chipped upvc frames; faulty locking mechanisms & handles; so called ‘easy-clean’ openers were almost impossible to budge; some windows badly fitted with twisted rubber seals and water pooling after first rainfall. The scaffolding was unsafe according to the fitters and I spent weeks scraping up silicone sealant from the perimeter of the house. We were asked to send comprehensive evidence including a list of all snags and images which took some time. We then spent the next couple of months chasing this up with little or no response, and finally got an engineer visit to rectify the faults in Nov 21, which unfortunately only rectified a few issues as the engineer had not been properly briefed and had forgotten the correct windows and parts to replace. This was followed by a further 4 failed engineer visits up to June 2022, all with equally similar experiences. Communication over this protracted period was shocking, I tried relentlessly to contact the NW branch, based in Stockport, the phone is never answered (I since learned the national team can never reach them either). After many e-mails and phone calls I escalated to the national customer support team who were very supportive, however the regional branch has full autonomy in handling their own complaints so when it goes wrong the national team are in effect powerless to intervene. At one stage I wrote a polite email to the NW branch expressing our disappointment and copied this to the Senior Customer Services manager, Director of Operations, and 11 other senior personnel and didn’t receive a single response from anyone. When I eventually reached a senior customer operations manager from NW branch, he told me in a rude manner he was too busy to deal with this and it was also proven on two occasions I was deliberately misled by this manager. This appears to be a culture which is deeply embedded within the NW branch of Anglian. I finally wrote to the CEO in Norwich and thankfully was contacted by their national lead for customer operations who was very helpful but also was unable to really expedite the protracted issues or resolve the problems. By now I had lost approx. £700 in lost salary taking time off for engineer visits (they say they can arrive anytime between 8am-5pm and normally arrive around 4pm if at all). I politely requested some compensation as this was entirely out of my control and they offered me £50 – I declined and chose to seek legal advice, after which they eventually offered £250 which I accepted in protest as I was completely exhausted with the whole experience. Even this was a shambles as they incorrectly completed a cheque which my bank invalidated, and Anglian didn’t even pay postage so I had to retrieve it from the Royal mail sorting office and pay their fees!...you just couldn’t write this!! The snags were finally completed almost 12 months after installation, after experiencing a year of significant stress, inconvenience and lost salary. Finally, if you do go ahead and trust the other reviews in Anglian’s glossy brochures (like we did) make sure you receive your FENSA certificate and guarantee, something else we had to chase up for months, not suprising given the appalling quality and shocking workmanship / customer operations from the NW branch. My advice…don’t consider this shambles of a firm for a single second!!!
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Posted 1 year ago
The worst service I have ever experienced. If you are thinking of using Anglian windows please don't. Save yourself the stress and anxiety. The sales man will give you the chat and once you are roped in no one cares answers your calls. I have complained to the @compliantscustomer service many times and and still nothing. I ordered my windows in January no contact I then enquired and was told it would be end of July! When were they going to tell me?? Work on my house has stopped I'm having to extend my stay in rental accommodation at a cost. I need windows to progress and complete the job. @Basildon office is the worst. No one answers the phone. The installation manager Steve never replies if I'm lucky he'll send a holding text on Friday afternoon to say no change then no one answers the phone. Don't bother with the Compliants system it's not fit for purpose. It's a disgrace and unbelievable how bad the service is. -0 is the correct rating for them.
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Posted 1 year ago
Where do I begin? If you live in Hampstead Garden Suburb, just know that this company failed to get permission from the Trust to carry out work to replace my windows. Even though they assured me that they had completed works on windows “lots of times” in the suburb and had “never been refused before”, they wasted months of my time and failed to deliver. The nightmare doesn’t end at that point. Time and time again I was promised a “full refund” should the works not be carried out successfully. After months of waiting, a refund was received minus £997, which a very rude and obnoxious ‘sales manager’ informed me was a “non-refundable survey fee”. Unfortunately, Anglian fails to inform you of that either verbally nor within the contract verbiage. After complaining to both head office and customer services, I was informed that the local team is not responding to their own head office! How much worse could this company get? Please take care when reading their reviews! Consider which are real and which are fake! For anyone who is facing a struggle with Anglian, please take the following steps: 1. Complain to them. When they ignore you, move on to the next steps: 2. Report them to: The Chartered Trading Standards Institute by calling their Consumer Helpline at 0808 223 1133. The Financial Ombudsman Service at complaint.info @ financial-ombudsman.org.uk Do not sit back and let them rip you off or steal your money!
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Posted 1 year ago
Anglian employ unqualified fitters, they come from all types of different backgrounds, example, if you have tools you can become a fitter, no training given, just learn on site with another barely qualified fitter, The service Engineers who are sent out to repair plastics etc, are just the same, one guy joined he was never even in the building industry, he was a warehouse man, they gave him a van and said off you go with a list of addresses, the Management are arrogant, and have no idea how to deal with customers complaints, I know this as I am an ex employee of Anglian, I left because the politics was shocking, bullying is rife, another manager threatened to hang himself the bullying was so bad, senior manager just turns a blind eye to everything, the only people who suffer are the customers, they told us to try negotiate as little money as possible to award to the customers, all you have at Anglian Weybridge branch are staff who dint care, are there just for the pay day, most management are almost retired, or should be but are hanging on because they need the money! My advice go elsewhere, the product is terrible, customer service is even worse, avoid like the plague
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Posted 1 year ago
My Grey Front door which was fitted in June 2016 has faded quite considerably now, I request that someone come and have a look at the state of this door and was told my 2 female sales people that it is not under the guarentee any more! My windows and doors cost £10,000 at the time,and one of the main reasons that I chose Anglian was the 10 year guarentee, So, not very happy,and woukd definately not recommend or choose Anglian again!! Maureen Settle Coventry.
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Posted 1 year ago
Terrible After Care Service, when you want to get all the problems they caused fixed. Spent £7k, (after saving for years), fitted in January, still so many problems! Just spoke to the Manager, 11th May 2022, who said, "my boss and the Senior Managers don't talk to customers, you will have to take legal action". Just want to cry!
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Posted 1 year ago
don't use this company, gone downhill....they use different fixing fitting from what we ordered. fitter was grumpy, don't trust them, they want their money straight after fitting...
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Posted 3 years ago
absolute daylight robbery...they are fraudsters because they say they are a company that fits doors etc but couldn't fit a light bulb! They run away with your money and get away with it...some one somewhere needs to slap a court order on this company to stop them trading. Please dont even let them in your home. They pretended they would install a front door, took my money and left me with a useless, dropping to bits, leaky mess. Avoid, avoid, avoid!!!
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Posted 3 years ago
Please believe me when you read this. A dreadful inadequate and woeful company who's after sales service does not exist. I have been waiting since 04.02.2020 for them to come back out and rectify a problem with the patio doors that they poorly installed. I have just had my third appointment cancelled till 11.03.2021. That's over 13 months away from my first arranged appointment and whose to say they will even turn up for that. When I asked if they deal with there sales with the same lack of urgency I was told that they could not answer that. Do yourself a favour and believe me you will thank me for it. Do not deal with these cowboys.
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Posted 3 years ago
Very pushy salesman, giving me a 2 hour deadline to sign or prices will go up, paid deposit and promised surveys done in 3 days! Obviously this was false! Canceled order lets see how long it takes for deposit refund! Anglian were a good company 10 years ago, definitely wouldn’t recommend now!!
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Posted 1 year ago
Dont touch this company at any cost! Had 3 windows fitted in 2021 Was told in March windows would be fitted in 12 to 14 weeks. Finally fitted in September! The kitchen window is south facing so gets the sun on it most of the day from March until September. So far we have had 5 units replaced due to either scratches, finger prints or dust inside the unit. These show when the sun shines on the glass. Anglian Windows just said they will fit one final unit and that will be it! Bearing in mind you pay more for Anglian windows than other companies you would thing you were paying for better windows. No one gets back to you, you can never talk to anyone. 2 years on and still not satisfied. This company used to be the best but now just don't go there.
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Posted 1 year ago
I rarely write reviews but feel compelled to alert potential future clients of Anglian Windows of the shocking service we experienced. This will seem a long review but in no way reflects the protracted list of issues we experienced from start to finish over 14 months, however I will try to keep this succinct. We chose Anglian after several quotes and lots of research because of their assurance of “unparalleled levels of customer service” and quality of materials and workmanship. Regrettably, nothing could be further from the truth. We placed our order in May 2021 and a survey was completed in June, we scrutinised this and found it to be incorrect, the revised version was also incorrect so this took 3 attempts. The installation was delayed until Sept and during and after this a large number of snags were identified by both the fitters and ourselves. These included scratched windows with scuffed/chipped upvc frames; faulty locking mechanisms & handles; so called ‘easy-clean’ openers were almost impossible to budge; some windows badly fitted with twisted rubber seals and water pooling after first rainfall. The scaffolding was unsafe according to the fitters and I spent weeks scraping up silicone sealant from the perimeter of the house. We were asked to send comprehensive evidence including a list of all snags and images which took some time. We then spent the next couple of months chasing this up with little or no response, and finally got an engineer visit to rectify the faults in Nov 21, which unfortunately only rectified a few issues as the engineer had not been properly briefed and had forgotten the correct windows and parts to replace. This was followed by a further 4 failed engineer visits up to June 2022, all with equally similar experiences. Communication over this protracted period was shocking, I tried relentlessly to contact the NW branch, based in Stockport, the phone is never answered (I since learned the national team can never reach them either). After many e-mails and phone calls I escalated to the national customer support team who were very supportive, however the regional branch has full autonomy in handling their own complaints so when it goes wrong the national team are in effect powerless to intervene. At one stage I wrote a polite email to the NW branch expressing our disappointment and copied this to the Senior Customer Services manager, Director of Operations, and 11 other senior personnel and didn’t receive a single response from anyone. When I eventually reached a senior customer operations manager from NW branch, he told me in a rude manner he was too busy to deal with this and it was also proven on two occasions I was deliberately misled by this manager. This appears to be a culture which is deeply embedded within the NW branch of Anglian. I finally wrote to the CEO in Norwich and thankfully was contacted by their national lead for customer operations who was very helpful but also was unable to really expedite the protracted issues or resolve the problems. By now I had lost approx. £700 in lost salary taking time off for engineer visits (they say they can arrive anytime between 8am-5pm and normally arrive around 4pm if at all). I politely requested some compensation as this was entirely out of my control and they offered me £50 – I declined and chose to seek legal advice, after which they eventually offered £250 which I accepted in protest as I was completely exhausted with the whole experience. Even this was a shambles as they incorrectly completed a cheque which my bank invalidated, and Anglian didn’t even pay postage so I had to retrieve it from the Royal mail sorting office and pay their fees!...you just couldn’t write this!! The snags were finally completed almost 12 months after installation, after experiencing a year of significant stress, inconvenience and lost salary. Finally, if you do go ahead and trust the other reviews in Anglian’s glossy brochures (like we did) make sure you receive your FENSA certificate and guarantee, something else we had to chase up for months, not suprising given the appalling quality and shocking workmanship / customer operations from the NW branch. My advice…don’t consider this shambles of a firm for a single second!!!
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Posted 1 year ago
have been constantly ignored from this company and have been sent quotes that do not make sense. Their pricing is dodgy and I will be reporting them to citizens advice. They are not honest and quite ignorant. The General Manager, Ian, even raised his voice at me when I was telling him the quotes do not make sense. I would not recommend them if they were the last window and door supplier on the planet. In response, I have placed complaints hence why the GM contacted me. Clearly you do not respond to complaints. I placed once via general email and one via the sales bloke that took over from all my initial issues. That salesman that took over, before the GM called me, is the best person in your business, the rest seem beyond incompetent. This complaint is not about a local team only; I complained two ways and even your head office (main email) ignored me. Have some respect and pride in your work than blame the local office. Incompetence and ignorance again
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Posted 1 year ago
The worst service, we have spent thousands of pounds on a new front door. Within 6 months of having the door installed, we have struggled/some occasions can’t get in our front door. We have contacted Anglian via the internet and call to organise a repair visit but no one wants to help. Avoid buying or using this company, they are awful.
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Posted 1 year ago
I had a conservatory built over nine years ago so in theory still in guarantee. The conservatory itself is fine but the gutter is not fit for purpose and has failed again. AW have been fine on previous occasions but since COVID they have been absolutely dreadful. You can't speak to anyone in person to book an engineer. You have to leave details online that they systematically ignore. So I've written. And they have ignored that, too. Well over a year with numerous reminders and they have still not come back to me. I looked online to see if they had gone bankrupt. Apparently not, yet, but they will if they keep this up.
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Posted 1 year ago
Absolute nightmare from start to finish, and unfortunately following installation, still not finished! We were told 6-8 weeks for installation which then was delayed "due to covid" despite being well into the pandemic when this was quoted. We were provided a new installation date 4 weeks later, called the day before to confirm, then called back again to cancel the installation the next day due to a supposed parts issue, and given a second new date 2 MONTHS later. We then got a call asking for feedback on why we hadn't accepted their quote. Not only had we accepted it but we'd paid a deposit! They managed to fit us in earlier than the 2 month date due to a cancellation elsewhere (though still 5 months after the order) and the guy that showed up was on time, carried out the work efficiently, however mysteriously we received a phone call to cancel our upcoming appointment - 2 hours after he had arrived - as they didn't have all the parts. At this point the doors were off and he was fitting the new ones!!!! To top it off, the pane of glass above the door was incorrect and not what we were quoted for, however Anglian expected on the spot payment of the balance due. Turns out it was unclear on their paperwork despite us being very clear in what we asked the surveyor for and being of the understanding this is what was written down and included in the cost therefore we are not paying in full for something that has not been delivered. Finally the spy hole. Are all Anglian customers 7 feet tall?! I can't even see out of it on tip-toes, not fit for purpose. We are another 12 months down the line and yet to receive our replacements. The customer service is absolutely disgusting - I don't even have words for how rude and incompetent they are. They couldn't care less about how long we have been waiting, have provided us no update and it took a month to get "we'll contact you when we have a delivery date", which they actually think is an acceptable update. I have spent several months BEGGING for an update which they cannot give and after asking them to cancel if THEY are unable to fulfil THEIT responsibilities under the contract, they still have done nothing and then actually expected 80% payment for cancellation despite it being on their failure. We have written to them at our local office, head office and even to the CEO and no one has got the decency to respond. This should be a source of unbelievable embarrassment for Anglian. Utterly vile company. I await them cancelling the matter so I can ANYWHERE ELSE to replace their garbage product. I want nothing more to do with these people and I hope they get what’s coming to them - STAY AWAY!!!!!
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Posted 1 year ago
Communication has been disgusting. I had new windows fitted recently, generally pleased, needed someone to call me back with a few issues, no call, nobody cares
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Posted 1 year ago
I don't think Anglian Windows deserve even one star. I made a deposit for a door of £300 but when it was delivered it was not the correct door. When I asked them to make the door I had specified they could not do it so I expected them to return my deposit. Instead I received a letter asking me to pay for the door (which I had never had) and if I did not pay they would take me to court. I responded by letter having already responded by emails and that was October 2021 and I still have no reply . and no refund. Spectacularly bad service but also immoral!
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Posted 1 year ago
Extremely poor! Composite front door fitting We had a composite front door fitted. It looks lovely, although we were (and still are) unable to get in and out easily. The door was not fitted in the correct position (only by 1-2mm so not much) so the lock mechanism does not slot into or release from its keeps. We asked the fitter, the site engineer and the manager to visit the property and fix the problem. They tried spraying the door with grease, shaved some metal off the hinges and some other stupid and unhelpful things. We complained to customer services which was a waste of time. They absolutely don't care! And equally are not concerned that we (or anyone visiting us) are unable to use the door. We contacted the lock manufacturer direct who provided us with their guidelines on how to fit the door so the lock can release easily and an engineer from the lock company even went to the trouble to Facetime us so we could show him the problem. He agreed that the door was not fitted to specification and, although we sent this information on Anglian, they simply dismissed us and told us the door is fine. Although it is perfectly clear that the door is 1-2mm in the wrong position, the only solution offered by Anglian was to install a knob so we can push and pull the door to release the lock mechanism (rather than just turn the lock and open the door)! We were told by Anglian that it is standard practice to push on a door (on the inside of the house going out) to release the lock and pull the door towards us (from the outside going in). I have never had to use this manoeuvre to open any door ever! I was even told that Anglian have no obligation to install this knob - it's a gesture of goodwill! We did not accept their gesture! The door simply needs to be moved 1-2mm. I asked customer services about their complaints procedure and I was given an email address to make a formal complaint which I did. Guess whose desk the complaint email landed on - the same person who provided the email address - the same person who has been dismissing me ever since the door was fitted. So don't bother complaining - they simply don't care. I find it disturbing that such a well known company can be satisfied that they have left customers unable to use their new front door. The one engineer who was able to open the door with ease was around 6ft 5" and built like a tank! We were told the the door would loosen up in time. Well, six months later, we are still unable to open the door! In essence, I would vehemently not recommend this company! They are not only rude, uncaring and dismissive - they will not resolve any issues you may have! And there is no complaints procedure.
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Posted 2 years ago
Sat here beside my Very expensive Anglian patio windows with gale's outside and draughts coming through locks and gaps. Complained when fitted as looks like it was miss measured, but they were not interested. My advice, don't bother.
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Posted 2 years ago
Anglian windows is rated 1.3 based on 365 reviews