Sectors: carpenters and joiners

A door, a window or a stair is made for one opening.

A joinery makes each piece for one opening in one building. With Specify, a customer specifies it within the sizes and choices the workshop makes. Then they send it for a price.

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What makes it hard to sell, and how Specify is built for it

Each piece is made to measure, and the customer chooses before anyone has measured. Each problem is set beside how Specify is built for it.

  1. In the trade

    A piece made for one opening does not come back

    EU consumer law excludes goods made to the customer's specification from the right of withdrawal. A door cut to a wrong size fits nowhere else. The mistake is a loss, not a return.

    In Specify

    Sizes within what the workshop makes

    A customer gives a width or a height within the workshop's smallest, largest and step. A size outside them is refused as it is typed, with the limit named. The server checks it again.

    The joinery demo store with a window 1,400 mm wide and 1,300 mm high, its limits shown under each size, the single sash struck out at that width, two sashes chosen in dark green oak, and the generated picture of the window beside them.
    From the joinery demo store: width and height are given within the workshop's limits. At 1,400 mm, a single sash is no longer offered.

  2. In the trade

    A price before measuring is an estimate

    Until the opening is measured, a price is only an estimate. Under the Danish standard terms and Swedish law, an estimate can rise by up to 15%. Only beyond that does the customer have a say.

    In Specify

    A price asked for, not guessed

    A product can be offered for a quote instead of a price. No amount is shown and nothing goes in a cart. The request reaches the workshop with everything the customer chose.

  3. In the trade

    Not every construction comes in every size

    Windows of different sizes can share one declaration of performance. But only within size limits the standard sets. The declared values must hold for the whole group.

    In Specify

    Options that stop at a size

    A rule can take an option away at or above a size. It can also do so at or below a size. The customer is told why, before the request is sent.

  4. In the trade

    The old window is the reference

    On a protected building, the authority can refuse a new window. It can refuse its material, its profile or its glazing bars. Owners are advised to keep and restore the original windows and doors.

    In Specify

    A picture of what is there now

    The customer can attach a picture of the door or window being replaced. It stays with everything they chose. So the workshop sees the old profile before it answers.

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Sources

Public sources for the rules and practice above.

  1. Directive 2011/83/EU on consumer rights, Article 16
  2. Forbrugerrådet Tænk, guide to AB-Forbruger, § 24 on estimates (Denmark)
  3. Konsumenttjänstlag (1985:716), § 36 on estimates (Sweden)
  4. Boverket, declaration of performance and CE marking for windows (Sweden)
  5. Boverket, replacing windows on valuable buildings: court cases (Sweden)
  6. Frederiksberg Kommune, protected and preservation-worthy buildings (Denmark)