A sash window is not a picture frame with glass in it. It is a machine with two moving parts, a pair of weights running inside hollow boxes either side, and a set of…
The answer is dull, and on nine London sashes out of ten it is the same answer: braided waxed cotton over a synthetic core, 6mm or 7mm, pre-stretched, bought as one…
A quote has landed for slim double glazed units in your existing sashes, four figures a window, and the pitch is that nothing changes except the heating bill. Much of…
Your flat is listed, the sashes are original, and the quote you had for slimline double glazing came back with a warning that the council would probably refuse it.…
The quote says £1,400 a window and explains nothing. You are told you are buying double glazing, so you assume most of that is glass. The glass in it is worth about…
Two Grade II terraces three streets apart, same borough, same firm, the same slim sealed units proposed in both. One application came back approved with conditions. The…
Condensation on the room side of the glass is not a fault in the window. It is a measurement: the pane is running colder than the dew point of the air in front of it.…
The panelling either side of your window reveal is not decoration. It is a box, and in a great many London houses there are still shutters folded up inside it, painted…
The putty along the bottom of your window has cracked into segments, a piece came away when you pressed it, and the pane behind it shifts when a lorry goes past. At the…
The fastener on a London sash window has one job that most people assume it does and it usually does not: keep somebody out. A standard fitch fastener holds two sashes…