Before you buy anything, work out which fault you actually have. A sash that will not move, a sash that rattles and a sash that draughts feel like the same problem to…
A salesman has told you uPVC sash windows are "conservation approved" and that plenty of people in your street already have them. Your neighbour has told you the council…
A sash that has to be shouldered open, or that slides shut the moment you let go of it, is not a mysterious old-house problem. It is a machine with four working parts,…
Designation and Article 4 get talked about as though they were one control. They are two, they do different jobs, and only one of them has anything to say about your…
The foam tape is on, the room is still cold, and now the bottom sash sticks halfway up. That sequence is common enough to be a rule, and it happens because the tape went…
"The thin bit of wood down the side has come away and now the top one rattles." That is a perfectly good description of a broken parting bead, and any joiner worth…
A parting sash cord announces itself twice: the rope lets go at the pulley, then a dull thump inside the wall as the weight lands. Nothing is lost. The weight is still…
The window you are looking at is a piece of counterweighted machinery designed in the 1670s, and in its essentials it has not been improved on since. Cord, pulley,…
The split bottom rails and cracked staff beads we get called out to repair were mostly not caused by whatever jammed the window in the first place. They were caused by…
Nothing on your windows has actually broken yet. They open, they shut, they rattle in a gale, and you cannot tell whether that means they are healthy or whether you are…