You wiped it off with bleach in November. By the middle of December the black speckling is back in the top corners of the reveal and along the bottom rail, and there is…
Most people do not choose between a casement and a sash. The house chose, two hundred years ago, and the question that actually arrives is whether to keep what is there…
Cut the decay out of a London sash cill and you are usually left holding a piece of timber about the length of your hand. Either side of the cut the wood is as sound as…
"Beyond economical repair" is the phrase, and it gets used about London timber windows a good deal more often than the timber deserves. The question worth asking is not…
You have single-glazed sashes, a bedroom that never quite warms up, and a bus route that wakes you at six. One firm has quoted to take the sashes out and reglaze them…
Before you order a replacement pane, go outside and look at the reflections in the rest of the window. It takes half a minute, it costs nothing, and it decides whether…
Supplied and fitted, made-to-measure aluminium secondary glazing in London generally lands somewhere between £300 and £700 per window. The national average sits lower,…
You are about to spend four or five figures on windows, and the paperwork question wants settling before you take quotes rather than after. Four facts about your address…
Most people insulate a sash window in the wrong order. They get quotes for double glazing at four figures a window, decide it is too much, and do nothing for another…
Three pile heights cover almost every box sash in London: 5.5mm, 8.5mm and 11.5mm. The gaps each one is made to close barely overlap, so choosing between them is a…