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Windows...For Seeing Through

5/14/2013

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Yes this is indeed the purpose of windows...most windows...not ours however. When we brought our cottage 3 years ago we new the windows where total crap, cheapy  UPVC ones fitting in the early 90's, they where well past their best.

Three years of having to wait for more urgent jobs to get finished has not improved them,  almost every window is either rusted solidly shut (a fire hazard) or rusted open (and weather and burglar hazed). We somehow made it through this winter by stuffing the open ones with rags and duck tape and putting up with the fact that they are all so misted up that looking through them is rather like having cataracts.
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We new we couldn't go another winter like this, more than anything this isn't helping us sort the damp problem! Back in March we got a quote for replacing them all (small house so only 5 Windows in total...one advantage of having a small house!), we would have loved to go for solid wood replacements but the prices where just way out of our reach after all the work we did on the house last year (the total re-wire which we hadn't budgeted for) so we had to go for plastic replacements (although very good quality ones).
We decided to go for sash look-a-likes on the front two windows as this is what the house would have had originally, as the back of the house was added on much later it never had sashes so we just opted to have straight swaps for ours falling apart ones. 

So today was the day...I was very excited...until the window company called us to say their glass guy had let them down and the two sash windows for the front weren't ready yet...bum face!
So anyway the two chaps turned up and fitted the back three windows, meaning that at least our bedroom is now much warmer and I no longer have to listen to the sound of cats fighting outside at 3am. 

Heres a little before and after for you...
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A vast improvement, who new we has such nice scenery outback?! I will just have to wait to enjoy the view from the front of the house (and its a bloody corker of a view, one of the reasons we brought the house...and quite frankly I'm sick of having to go outside to enjoy it!!!). Patience is not a virtue I possess in any quantity.
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Sylvanna link
5/15/2013 02:21:37 am

It really is a lovely view! Your front windows will be in soon. Hang in there.

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Steelkitten link
5/18/2013 04:54:01 am

Your new windows make such a massive difference! I remember duct taping ours to seal them during our first winter here, along with all the plug sockets and key holes. The drafts used to rip through them.

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Emma Kate link
5/19/2013 08:53:39 pm

We had the same fogging in several of ours. One left now! Yours look great and what a lovely view!

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