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Hi, Somehow my window can't close properly. I looked at the hinges and seems they are not broken. But somehow it got stuck why I try to close it. I asked a windows guy and he said i have to replace the whole window. Is it really the case I have to replace the whole window? I attached some photos...

Hi there, Hoping someone can offer their advice. I am planning on reusing approx. 30 yr old windows to make a small lean-to greenhouse. The layer between the wooden frames and glass is crumbling and I am not entirely sure whether this is the old putty. The frames have been stripped of...

Hello All, I am about to start insulating our dining room. We live in a 1930s Yorkshire stone and red brick cavity wall end terrace house. Cavity wall insulation is not possible nor is External Wall Insulation so Internal Wall Insulation it is. I have already used Gyproc Thermaline Super 90mm...

Hi all, I had a new VEKA window fitted by a joiner roughly one year ago who I can no longer get in contact with. The window appears to be leaking, at first it was insinuated that it was the flat roof that was causing the leak. However, after hiring a roofer and spending at least 6 months...

Hi. I have now started to tile the dormer . I thought I had calculated window positions correctly to correspond with the plain tile edges but with the additional counter battens requested by Building control it now requires a slither of a tile :-( Windows are ordered already so cant change the...

Hi, I have two quotes for 70mm profile windows for a new build house with little or nothing between them: 1. Spectus (steel re-enforced) 2. Liniar My instinct is to go with Spectus as it has steel re-enforcement and the manufacturer claim an A rating. Does steel re-enforcement make a...

Does anybody have a cheap method for getting these large, old, draughty crittall windows secondary glazed? There are 9 of these windows. I have bought 9 huge 4mm plexiglass sheets that are big enough to sit on the wall covering the whole thing. The windows are 1500x1200. I thought about using...

hey, So the heat has hit my front door and the beadings popped out. It wouldn't go back in so I stupidly cut it down to size and now it just falls out. I tried to identify the door, frame, locks etc but couldn't find anything about the door itself. The locks are FUHR, the hinges trojan but...

Hi all, Just having a small showeroom refurbished. After stripping down the old wall tiles, my builder said it seems that the window has no lintel on the outer skin! The inner skin seems to be supported on a 'timber' support. The window is upvc and is 50cm wide, and has a height of 90cm. Can...

Hi. The hinge in the attached photos has broken and I need to replace it, does anyone know what make and model this is or where I can get it from or an alternative? Thanks

I'm hoping someone can help us. Our upvc window frame is lifting up off th windowsill. Does anyone know why this might be happening? We've just sold our house and are trying to get everything in order before we move. I've attached a photo of the problem. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you...

I've just had a garage built onto the back of my property. The toilet window (600 mm X 650 mm) opens into the garage but it needs to be replaced by a fire rated window with no opening. I previously fitted all eleven UPVC windows into my home (except the bay which I wimped out on) but I...

Most windows casings in the house have a lot of mould, see photo below: Apart from being disgusting, do it have any negative effect? Should I clean it? It did clean most part of a single window and it took ages as it's not flat surface.

Help! I found my new tilt and slide door got stuck. I have two tild/slide doors, each slides to one side, and closing togehter in the middle joining each other. Now one got stucked, they just looked closed, but both cannot be opened. The problem door's top is closed fine, and looked...

Just installed these bifolds but need advice on how to seal the underneath where the frame sits. Pics attached Thanks

Hey all, newbie here hope your well. Just bought my first house and am trying to do as much as the work myself if possible. I'm having a problem with most of the windows in the house, this being that when they are closed they are really draughty. I've added a vid - any advice would be terrific.

Hi there, Wondering if anyone would know what we can do about our front window? They're standard looking pvc windows with one panel that opens out on the right. There's a gap between that window that opens and the vertical bar at the end of the main pane. It's actually hard to see in the...

Hi, The house was built in the early 80's and I can't find the right hinge I need, does anyone know where I can get one? The window is side swung, the handle is on the left and the hinge is on the right. The hinge is 30cm long, 2cm wide and 7mm tall. Where can I buy a 7mm tall hinge? I can...

Hi all, We are in the process of building a new garage and a brickie is going to face our block walls and build pillars and apex etc.. we have left three 500x900 gaps for Windows on the block wall immediately below the roof plate. There is to be no cavity as such between the block and brick...

It took us a while to realise what had happened here, even though we knew it didn't look right .... We could never quite figure out why the window man put in a window that was not as high as the opening cut by the builder. But this weekend we realised that was because the builder cut the window...