i have just purchased a semi circa 1870, its in good shape apart from
some heavy decorating to be done. The joining semi has a nice bay
window, as do most of the houses in the road. Speaking to some of the
older residents, the previous owner actually removed the bay and
replaced with a flat window. All the double glazing needs to be
replaced, so my question is, does anybody have any ideas what kind of
work would be involved in putting back the bay?

thanks

On 18 Mar 2007 01:55:35 -0700, "druncula"
wrote:


i have just purchased a semi circa 1870, its in good shape apart from
some heavy decorating to be done. The joining semi has a nice bay
window, as do most of the houses in the road. Speaking to some of the
older residents, the previous owner actually removed the bay and
replaced with a flat window.

Probably done because a new flat window is an awful lot cheaper than a
new bay window!

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Tom Woods writes:
On 18 Mar 2007 01:55:35 -0700, "druncula"
wrote:


i have just purchased a semi circa 1870, its in good shape apart from
some heavy decorating to be done. The joining semi has a nice bay
window, as do most of the houses in the road. Speaking to some of the
older residents, the previous owner actually removed the bay and
replaced with a flat window.

Probably done because a new flat window is an awful lot cheaper than a
new bay window!

Bays of that age often failed, and fell to pieces. Bays with
brickwork arches are prime candidates -- the brick arches
push the corners out and slowly collapse, particularly square
bays. If you live in an area where bombing took place in WWII,
then it may have been lost in a bombing raid. Due to the
inherent weakness of some bays as above, a bomb which landed
far enough away not to cause any other damage to a house
sometimes caused such bays to collapse or become unsafe and
require pulling down. Besides collapsing arches, bays often
had much less adequate foundations than the rest of the
house, causing them to move and come away. Bays became
unfasionable and with materials in short supply, they were
often not replaced like-for-like.

A neighbour recently fitted a bay window, copying mine which
was same style 1900 house. His was built as a corner shop and
never had the bay in the first place. By the time the bay wall
had been built to modern building standards (cavity and
insulation), there's very little space in the bay compared
with the original ones. OP might want to consider this and
use an alternative wall construction, such as single skin
brick and timber frame with insulation, to keep wall
thickness down.

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Andrew Gabriel
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"druncula" wrote in message
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i have just purchased a semi circa 1870, its in good shape apart from
some heavy decorating to be done. The joining semi has a nice bay
window, as do most of the houses in the road. Speaking to some of the
older residents, the previous owner actually removed the bay and
replaced with a flat window. All the double glazing needs to be
replaced, so my question is, does anybody have any ideas what kind of
work would be involved in putting back the bay?

thanks


What do you mean..."what kind of work would be involved in putting back the
bay?"

If you look at the neighbours bay you will see what kind of work is involed
ie laying a course foundation,laying a course of brickwork on the
foundation,constructing pillars(columns)if any? then choosing the bay roof
to suit.
Surely it can't be that hard?

"druncula" wrote in message
ups.com...

i have just purchased a semi circa 1870, its in good shape apart from
some heavy decorating to be done. The joining semi has a nice bay
window, as do most of the houses in the road. Speaking to some of the
older residents, the previous owner actually removed the bay and
replaced with a flat window. All the double glazing needs to be
replaced, so my question is, does anybody have any ideas what kind of
work would be involved in putting back the bay?

The work involved would be basically: build a new bay window.

-- JJ

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:55:35 -0700, druncula wrote:


i have just purchased a semi circa 1870, its in good shape apart from some
heavy decorating to be done. The joining semi has a nice bay window, as do
most of the houses in the road. Speaking to some of the older residents,
the previous owner actually removed the bay and replaced with a flat
window. All the double glazing needs to be replaced, so my question is,
does anybody have any ideas what kind of work would be involved in putting
back the bay?

thanks

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A bit more information would help. Is the bay (in adjoining semi / bay to
be restored) a 'walk-in' bay or a 'cantilevered' bay? Is it upstairs or
downstairs?

Cic.

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