Stuart Noble wrote in news:LvbCe.1113
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Timothy Murphy wrote:
Mary Fisher wrote:


"Rob Morley" wrote in message


http://www.periodproperty.co.uk/article041.htm

Very nice site, thanks.


Agreed, thanks.
Though I was puzzled by one statement:

"4. Broken cords: in former times people re-corded their own windows -
the cords and sash weights were available at any ironmongers
(and still are at some)."

In former times?
What do people do now?

The cord is easy enough to get, and you rarely need new weights. What is
odd is that most houses seem to have the wrong weights for their sashes-
too heavy or too light, so one can only assume the sashes have been
replaced ar some time.
It's easy to minimise draughts on the lower sash by adjusting the staff
bead but the upper is a bugger because you can't move the parting bead,
and the other side of that you have the edge of the box. Any packing out
you do invariably stops the window moving freely.

I thought that it was mostly the glass that made the difference. As I
recal, older (Victorian) glass was thinner than most modern glass, hence
any pane that had been replaced contributed to the weights being wrong.

--
Rod