I'm looking at buying a property that has stained wooden windows in a sort
of mottled yellowy brown colour.

It's in a conservation area and both the block rules and planning
regulations required any replacements to be an exact match

Some of the owners have already replaced their windows with upvc so getting
the colour match must be possible

A) Is the a standard colour chart available that I can look in for this
colour

b) If if isn't a standard colour is making a special colour something that
all suppliers do or is it just a hand-full of (presumably expensive)
suppliers that offer this service?

TIA

tim

tim..... wrote:

I'm looking at buying a property that has stained wooden windows in a sort
of mottled yellowy brown colour.

It's in a conservation area and both the block rules and planning
regulations required any replacements to be an exact match

Some of the owners have already replaced their windows with upvc so
getting the colour match must be possible

A) Is the a standard colour chart available that I can look in for this
colour

b) If if isn't a standard colour is making a special colour something that
all suppliers do or is it just a hand-full of (presumably expensive)
suppliers that offer this service?


I must admit in all my time searching for uPVC window suppliers and checking
prices/features I have never seen uPVC offered in anything other than white,
mahogany, rosewood or just possibly plain brown. Perhaps there's a
specialist service, but as conservation areas can be very strict about
colours and window manufacturers often (possibly always) use frame
extrusions made by a third party I can't see how it would work.

Are you sure it's not a paint applied afterwards? You could phone your
conservation officer to ask, or knock at one of the houses where it's been
done.



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Tim Watts

On Sep 17, 11:56*am, "tim....." wrote:
I'm looking at buying a property that has stained wooden windows in a sort
of mottled yellowy brown colour.

It's in a conservation area and both the block rules and planning
regulations required any replacements to be an exact match

Some of the owners have already replaced their windows with upvc so getting
the colour match must be possible

A) Is the a standard colour chart available that I can look in for this
colour

b) If if isn't a standard colour is making a special colour something that
all suppliers do or is it just a hand-full of (presumably expensive)
suppliers that offer this service?

TIA

tim

Get powder coated aluminium windows, they can easily be made to any
colour.

Jonathan

On Monday, September 17, 2012 12:15:32 PM UTC+1, Jonathan wrote:
On Sep 17, 11:56*am, "tim....." wrote:

I'm looking at buying a property that has stained wooden windows in a sort

of mottled yellowy brown colour.



It's in a conservation area and both the block rules and planning

regulations required any replacements to be an exact match



Some of the owners have already replaced their windows with upvc so getting

the colour match must be possible



A) Is the a standard colour chart available that I can look in for this

colour



b) If if isn't a standard colour is making a special colour something that

all suppliers do or is it just a hand-full of (presumably expensive)

suppliers that offer this service?



TIA



tim



Get powder coated aluminium windows, they can easily be made to any

colour.



Jonathan

Ali is the worst thing for any type of paint to adhere to, so that'll likely bring you trouble down the line too.


NT

wrote:

Ali is the worst thing for any type of paint to adhere to, so that'll
likely bring you trouble down the line too.

Powder coated is fine - 'tis what I have for half of mine. Probably 30 years
old and just a bit of a film on them that comes off with T-Cut.
--
Tim Watts

In article ,
tim..... wrote:
I'm looking at buying a property that has stained wooden windows in a
sort of mottled yellowy brown colour.

It's in a conservation area and both the block rules and planning
regulations required any replacements to be an exact match

Some of the owners have already replaced their windows with upvc so
getting the colour match must be possible

A) Is the a standard colour chart available that I can look in for this
colour

b) If if isn't a standard colour is making a special colour something
that all suppliers do or is it just a hand-full of (presumably
expensive) suppliers that offer this service?

Painting PVC is no problem - just make sure it's clean and use an oil
based paint. No primer needed.

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*Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Sep 17, 4:39*pm, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:
In article ,
* *tim..... wrote:

I'm looking at buying a property that has stained wooden windows in a
sort of mottled yellowy brown colour.
It's in a conservation area and both the block rules and planning
regulations required any replacements to be an exact match
Some of the owners have already replaced their windows with upvc so
getting the colour match must be possible
A) Is the a standard colour chart available that I can look in for this
colour
b) If if isn't a standard colour is making a special colour something
that all suppliers do or is it just a hand-full of (presumably
expensive) suppliers that offer this service?

Painting PVC is no problem - just make sure it's clean and use an oil
based paint. No primer needed.

--
*Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

* * Dave Plowman * * * * * * * * London SW
* * * * * * * * * To e-mail, change noise into sound.

But then you have to maintain it unlike powder coated ali.

Jonathan