CornishRob
Senior member
Some advice needed here.
My partner and I have recently completed and moved into our first house. Its about 115 years old Victorian style semi, with one bay downstairs and two sash upstairs at the front. There are a further 6 sash windows throughout the house. These are all original single glazed wood windows.
The windows have not been looked after for a long time by the look of it, and are in desperate need of sorting out. (We knew this before we purchased the house). Lots of pains have cracked glass, lots of putty dropping out, or missing, rotten sills, broken sash cords etc. You get the picture!
Now what to do. We ideally want to double glaze because they are in such a mess, and we will need to be re-glazing a fair few anyway even if we just keep single glazing due to the broken glass. I had a local joiner round to see if he could just make the sliding sash casement and we could replace that, and keep the original box, going through and replacing sash cords, draft proofing etc. But he said they are too narrow, and there isn't enough space to fit double glazing in.
This brings us to the next question point. He said due to some being rotten etc, it would be better just to replace with new ones which can house double glazing etc. So I have an initial quote which isn't cheap as you would expect.
Next point we could do is replace with uPVC sash double glazed jobbies, to replicate the originals. All modern, no maintenance etc, but the first quote we had (which was a national firm who I wont be going with, but just wanted to see their prices etc) was nearly the same price as the wood ones.
Im getting a local window firm in on Thursday for another quote, but im a bit confused at the moment with what to do.
I love the wood windows, but the estate agent said if I replace with wood which is a lot more expensive than uPVC, I probably wont get that difference in money back come resale. Further confusion comes with the rear kitchen extension, as its had uPVC windows put in, so if I went wood, there would still be a mismatch etc or I would have to swap them out at some point.
For reference, the street is all mixed. Some original wood in OK condition, uPVC sash replacement, the cheapest horrible uPVC replacements etc.
So can anyone offer any opinions of what to do. Maybe when I get some more prices in, it might become clearer.
My partner and I have recently completed and moved into our first house. Its about 115 years old Victorian style semi, with one bay downstairs and two sash upstairs at the front. There are a further 6 sash windows throughout the house. These are all original single glazed wood windows.
The windows have not been looked after for a long time by the look of it, and are in desperate need of sorting out. (We knew this before we purchased the house). Lots of pains have cracked glass, lots of putty dropping out, or missing, rotten sills, broken sash cords etc. You get the picture!
Now what to do. We ideally want to double glaze because they are in such a mess, and we will need to be re-glazing a fair few anyway even if we just keep single glazing due to the broken glass. I had a local joiner round to see if he could just make the sliding sash casement and we could replace that, and keep the original box, going through and replacing sash cords, draft proofing etc. But he said they are too narrow, and there isn't enough space to fit double glazing in.
This brings us to the next question point. He said due to some being rotten etc, it would be better just to replace with new ones which can house double glazing etc. So I have an initial quote which isn't cheap as you would expect.
Next point we could do is replace with uPVC sash double glazed jobbies, to replicate the originals. All modern, no maintenance etc, but the first quote we had (which was a national firm who I wont be going with, but just wanted to see their prices etc) was nearly the same price as the wood ones.
Im getting a local window firm in on Thursday for another quote, but im a bit confused at the moment with what to do.
I love the wood windows, but the estate agent said if I replace with wood which is a lot more expensive than uPVC, I probably wont get that difference in money back come resale. Further confusion comes with the rear kitchen extension, as its had uPVC windows put in, so if I went wood, there would still be a mismatch etc or I would have to swap them out at some point.
For reference, the street is all mixed. Some original wood in OK condition, uPVC sash replacement, the cheapest horrible uPVC replacements etc.
So can anyone offer any opinions of what to do. Maybe when I get some more prices in, it might become clearer.
