New door & window report reveals Timber market trends
Looking at some of today’s beautiful long-lived wood windows and doors, it’s easy to forget what a journey Timber’s been on. It’s been transformed since the mid-1990s when it was at a cliff edge.
Wood, beautiful wood
From the design and standards to how they are made, installed, positioned and sold, almost everything has changed. And having been extremely product oriented, they are now also learning to market themselves and their products more effectively.
Many timber and joinery companies make other products too, from staircases, furniture to doors, whatever people ask for. But greater competition and a tough market is persuading many to specialise and follow the demand. That isn’t always windows and doors so the total numbers of companies making and/or installing timber windows and doors has been falling while the prospects for quality timber windows and doors companies have not looked brighter in 50 years.
Timber market intelligence
The new PROSPECTManager Window & Door Market Trends report highlights that just above 44% of installers sold Timber in 2025, down from around 51% ten years ago, in 2015. In terms of market share, timber accounts for around 9% of the window & door market value, and 5% by volume.
Lots more data is included in the report, which you can download on the PROSPECTManager website.
Today’s market is dynamic and ever changing. Perhaps not as dynamic and changeable as our economy and politics, with its 7th prime minister and government in the last ten years. But we live in fast changing, challenging times, and we need the sharpest tools and the best data to steer a safe and profitable course. This report will help you do that.
The article was first published in Glass News‘ Timber Market Intelligence feature. The insight comes from PROSPECTManager’s 2026 Window & Doors Market Trends Report, which is based on in-depth analysis of PROSPECTManager and Tommy Trinder’s database, which contains quotes from over 700 of the UK’s leading installers.
