A quotation for aluminum frame glass wardrobes often arrives as a single page of numbers: a rate per linear metre, a glass code, a hardware list, and a delivery note. Two proposals that look almost identical on paper can behave very differently once they are installed against an uneven villa wall, used daily by hotel guests, or handed to a site contractor who was never told which parts were shop-made and which were fitted on site. Before you award the package, read the proposal as a build description rather than a price, and make sure every element that drives cost and performance is written down.

What a Complete Wardrobe Proposal Should State

Custom built-in wardrobes are made to the opening, not bought off a shelf. The Aluminum Frame Glass Wardrobes listing on our site describes three configuration points we ask every project to confirm before pricing: made-to-measure sizing, material and finish options, and a layout tailored to the room. A serious proposal repeats those three points in writing, because each one changes what the manufacturer is actually producing.

Where a proposal is thin, the gaps get filled later: by a variation order, a cutting compromise on site, or an argument about who owns the snag. Ask for the following to appear as line items rather than assumptions:

• Room-by-room schedules, with heights and widths taken from the drawings you issued, not a typical section.
• Frame profile description and finish, plus the glass type for each door group.
• Carcase board specification and edge treatment, stated separately from the door cost.
• Internal layout per wardrobe: hanging zones, drawer banks, shelving, lighting provisions.
• Hardware schedule covering hinges, handles or handleless profiles, sliding tracks and soft-close items, with quantities.
• What is manufactured in the factory and what is adjusted on site, including scribes and packers.
• Packing, container loading and the delivery arrangement, plus who carries out the installation.

Read the Door System Before You Read the Price

Glass and aluminium frame construction is what makes this wardrobe type read as architecture instead of furniture, and it is also where proposals are easiest to confuse. Our catalogue carries the same door idea across several named collections: Clear Glass Aluminum Frame Wardrobes, Frosted Glass Aluminum Frame Wardrobes, Smoked Glass Aluminum Frame Wardrobes and Bronze Glass Aluminum Frame Wardrobes, alongside glass doors in hinged, sliding and walk-in configurations. If two suppliers quote different totals, the first thing to check is whether they are quoting the same door system at all.

Three practical questions settle it quickly. First, hinged or sliding: a glass sliding door wardrobe saves the swing clearance a bedroom often cannot give, but it carries track, wheel and alignment hardware that must be levelled on site, so ask how the track is supplied and adjusted. Second, transparency: clear glass shows the interior, while frosted, smoked and bronze tints soften it, which matters in glass walk-in wardrobes, where the storage itself becomes part of the room's appearance. Third, frame finish: an aluminium frame is specified by profile and surface treatment, so request a physical sample or finish card rather than accepting a colour name in a spreadsheet.

Compare Like-for-Like Layouts, Not Headline Rates

A per-metre rate hides how much storage you are buying. Two quotes for the same bedroom can differ mainly because one proposal fills the carcase with adjustable shelving and the other with fixed shelves plus a deeper drawer bank. Our custom minimalist bedroom wardrobe pages describe the internal decisions we ask clients to make: personalised sizes, internal layouts, door styles and surface finishes, with hanging areas, drawer zones or shelf storage arranged around actual storage habits. Send the same room schedule to every bidder and require them to price that layout, so the comparison stays honest.

For whole-apartment or villa packages, ask for a schedule grouped by room rather than one lump sum. Grouped pricing makes it possible to phase the order when rooms are handed over at different times, and it exposes where a bidder has quietly excluded a corner unit, an above-door soffit, or the joinery return that meets the interior fixtures package.

Check Manufacturing Depth and Scope of Supply

Ask what the manufacturer controls end to end. Wardrobe packages are usually only one line in a wider fit-out, and a supplier who also produces built-in furniture, cabinetry and other interior fixtures can coordinate finishes across the same project instead of leaving each trade to match colours on site. Our Custom & OEM service covers bespoke material, finish and texture choices alongside custom design and prototyping. That matters when a designer wants the frame profile or handle detail changed rather than simply recoloured.

Then check the commercial scope. Our Logistics & Door-to-Door Delivery service covers freight forwarding by sea, air and rail, customs paperwork, packaging and container loading, shipment tracking and door-to-door delivery. Read the Incoterms on your own proposal and confirm who handles import clearance, duties and the last leg to site, because those costs move a quote more than any finish upgrade.

Ask How Site Conditions Are Handled

Glass-fronted wardrobes reveal poor setting-out: a frame out of plumb shows as a visible taper along the door line, and a floor that is not level turns sliding doors into a snag list. A good proposal states how measurements are verified before production, how scribes and packers are allowed for at walls and ceilings, and what tolerance the site must hand over. Our Installation & After-sales Support page lists on-site installation, inspection with snags, warranty coverage, spare parts and replacement, and ongoing maintenance. Ask any bidder to say plainly which of those they include, and which they expect your builder to cover.

Get this in writing before production starts. Once frames are cut to a survey that nobody signed, the fix is always more expensive than the check would have been.

A Simple Scoring Sheet Before You Decide

Score each proposal on five points, and treat any unanswered point as a cost risk rather than a saving:

• Specification detail: are the frame, glass, board and hardware named rather than generic?
• Layout accuracy: does the internal layout match your room schedule?
• Site responsibility: who surveys, who levels, and who clears the snags?
• Logistics clarity: are Incoterms, packing method and delivery point named?
• After-sales position, covering warranty scope and the route for spare parts.

The cheapest proposal usually wins on rate per metre and loses on the items left unstated. The one you want is the one where the unstated list is shortest.

Next Step

Send us the room schedule, the drawings and the finishes you are working to, and we will price a wardrobe package against that information: sizing, glass and frame choice, internal layout and delivery scope confirmed line by line before anything enters production. Browse the wardrobe range at SANTERSON products or contact us directly for a proposal you can compare properly.