Rod wrote:
wrote:
We have a flat in North London with metal framed windows. The block
was built in the 1960s sometime and the windows are beginning (?!)
to show their age.

We would like to refurbish (or maybe replace) the windows while
retaining their character, modern UPVC framed windows would look
horrible (some adjacent flats have them and they *do* look horrible).

Can anyone recommend a supplier/builder/specialist or whatever who
could either actually do the work or alternatively supply hardware so
that we could do it ourselves?

It's a duplex flat with french doors onto a balcony downstairs plus a
separate floor to ceiling window downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs
with large windows. The existing opening windows are the swivel
type. The existing frames are not badly corroded but have got distorted
in
a couple of places so they don't close perfectly.


This week's Grand Designs featured restoration of metal windows. Link
to details:

http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/grand-designs/episode-guides/newport-folly-suppliers-09-02-10_p_1.html

Probably completely inappropriate - have a watch of the program.

I watched that and was encouraged by their desire to refurbish the windows
to original but could not discern whether the had managed to install d/g
units in them. Unlkely, I guess.

Clot wrote:


I watched that and was encouraged by their desire to refurbish the windows
to original but could not discern whether the had managed to install d/g
units in them. Unlkely, I guess.


Pretty sure they didn't - there was a moment where I think we saw a
single piece of glass being handled (i.e. just glass - no DG).

At the end we saw the shutters they had installed - in some places a
very appropriate way of helping improve thermal qualities of an SG
window. But bloomin' useless during the day when you want daylight let in.

--
Rod

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