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Sash window repair and restoration, Bath, since 2001

Sash windows, mended rather than replaced.

Repairs, draught proofing and new cords for the timber sashes you already have. The old glass stays, the sound timber stays, and the window goes back looking as it did the day it was made.

The method, step by step Work and prices

The first floor of a Georgian terrace in coursed stone, with three six over six box sash windows. The middle window has the lining on its left opened to show the pulley, the sash cords, the parting slip and the two weights inside the box. pulley sash cord parting slip weight meeting rail
Three bays of a Bath terrace, the middle window opened at the side. Each sash hangs on two cords that run over pulleys to weights in the boxes behind the frame.
  • 12panes in a six over six
  • 4cords to a window
  • 4weights in the boxes
  • 1day on site for most

What We Do

Three kinds of work, usually done together, always on the window you already have.

Repairs

Rot is cut back to sound wood and a new piece of matching timber is spliced in, glued and planed to the old profile. Loose joints are pinned and glued, broken glazing bars rebuilt. Filler is for dents, never for a sill or a bottom rail.

How a repair is done

Draught proofing

A slot is routed into the staff beads and parting beads and a brush seal fitted into it, with another across the meeting rails. The window still slides, still looks the same from the street, and stops rattling in a westerly.

Where the seals go

New cords

Broken or tired cords are replaced with waxed cotton, the weights checked and rebalanced, the pulleys freed and oiled. A sash should stay exactly where you leave it, at the top, the bottom or halfway.

Re-cording, priced

The Winter Pause

Every year I stop taking sashes out from the middle of December until the end of February. Linseed putty and paint will not cure properly in the cold, and a house with its windows boarded up in January is a miserable house to live in, whatever anyone says about clear sheeting.

We still answer email through the winter, still come out to a sash that has dropped, and still do survey visits, so the spring list is in order by March. If you want work done before the clocks go back, it is worth writing in the summer.

Huw

Prices in Brief

Per window, for an ordinary two-sash box window up to about 1.8 metres tall.

  • Survey visit within Bathfree
  • Re-cord and ease£150
  • Draught proofing, cords included£290
  • Full overhaul£460
  • Splice repair, eachfrom £85

Every price, and what each one covers

Where We Work

Bath and the villages around it, out to about twelve miles: Bathampton, Batheaston, Bathford, Combe Down, Weston, Freshford and the valleys between. Further than that for a whole house, not for a single window.

Most of the houses are Georgian or Victorian and many are listed. What that means for the work, and what a day with us in the house is like, is on the visit page.

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