How much do you hate window salesmen? For me they are right there on my dartboard of undesirables at the moment.

We invited Weatherfield to quote us for new windows and doors - the salesman arrived and was promptly told - cut to the chase - just measure up and give us a price. Two and half hours later we had our price - arghhhhhh!!!

The first price was £21,000 and finished at £7,000 with nothing to pay for a year. Not interested in signing up at that stage I asked him to leave. His boss kept phoning him pressurising the hard sell. My other half politely (okay so it wasn't polite but it was 11pm on a Friday night and I'd just got home after a week and a half working down south) to get lost. All weekend we had phonecalls from different parts of the said company - offering us better deals than their colleagues.

Finally agreed that one more person could come out - but they wanted to measure up again! Because they were directly from the factory not the sales team. After 15 minutes he said they could go as low as £6,000 - did I buy them. Did I heck as like - if I endured that amount of pain for four days just trying to get a quote can you imagine the trouble I'd have trying to get them installed.

So next time you need windows - make sure you haggle the cost...