On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:16:47 +0100, Mr Fizzion
wrote:

| I have an internal porch which takes some of the space away from the
| hall. There is a door from the porch to the outside and a door into
| the hall. Both doors are single glazed and I am now planning to have
| either one or both of them replaced by double glazed units.
|
| If I have only the outer door replaced, I could dispense with the
| porch completely and have a larger hall. However, I am wondering if
| there is any use in having a porch at all.
|
| What do you think? Would you keep the porch? What use is it?

Doors used to be draughty, so they had porches so they could have two
doors, to reduce draughts.
A single double glazed UPVC door is almost airtight, so the raison d'etre
has gone.

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Dave Fawthrop dave hyphenologist co uk
"Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*.
"Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*.