If the box frame stays in the wall, almost nothing you have done to a sash window counts as building work. That one fact settles most of the regulatory questions…
Accoya starts as fast-grown radiata pine from New Zealand plantations, a timber so undurable in its natural state that left outside untreated it would be lucky to see…
The 6.20am bus is the problem. Not the traffic generally, the specific one that pulls away from the stop outside your bedroom. You have had two quotes: one to replace…
The front room is cold from October to March, and you want that to stop without the house looking like it has had new windows. Every firm you ring says it does heritage…
Three firms look at the same first-floor sash with a snapped cord and quote £180, £480 and £900. None of them is necessarily trying it on. The difference is almost never…
Somewhere between £700 and £1,100 per window, plus access, plus VAT. That is the honest headline for a proper sash restoration in London in 2026, and if a quote for a…
The commonest painting call we get is not about the finish. It is that the windows were decorated last summer and now two of them will not move at all. Nothing has…
The weights hanging in the box beside your window were sized, by somebody with a set of scales in about 1885, for a pane of glass that may no longer be in the sash.…
A quote lands and it says something like "wool pile to stiles, compression seal to meeting rails and cill, new PVC parting bead throughout". Another firm quotes half the…
You can see daylight where the putty has pulled away from the glass, and there are crumbs of it on the cill every time the window is opened. Somewhere behind that gap,…