Take the vacuum flask off the kitchen shelf, flatten it, and make both walls transparent. That is the idea behind vacuum glazing: two sheets of glass, a sealed void…
There is no general grant for double glazing in the UK. Nothing lets you prove you own a cold house and collect money towards new windows; what exists is a set of…
Somebody has looked at your windows and said they are past saving. Or a pane has gone, the bottom rail gives under a thumb, and you cannot tell whether you are looking…
Somewhere between 1900 and 1910 the sash window changed its mind. For most of the nineteenth century the trend had run one way: fewer bars, bigger panes, plainer…
"They don't make the parts for that any more" is a true sentence about some sliding windows and a plain untruth about most of them. Which one it is gets decided inside…
Look at the middle of your window, where the two sashes cross. Two small projections hanging down at either end of the upper sash, like little ears, are the horns. Most…
The squeal is the giveaway. A sash that shrieks on the way up, or needs a shove to get going and then runs freely, or eats a new cord within a couple of years, is…
You pushed a screwdriver into the bottom rail and it went in like cake. Now you want to know whether this is the ordinary kind of rot that a joiner cuts out in an…
Nearly every double glazing quote for a period house arrives with two numbers on it. Something like 4.8 for the window you already own, 1.2 for the one being sold, and…
The cost of replacing a sash window in London moves by a factor of four, and the thing that moves it most is not the glass, the timber or the borough. It is whether the…