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Double glazing again...

Steve Maskery

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Rather than hijacking Roger's thread, I though I'd start a new one.

The house we live in has the cheapest, nastiest double-glazing units you can imagine. A plain 2XG door on a 200-year-old house, for example. The windows don't fit very well at all. One of the ones upstairs has a 3mm gap, not between the frame and the stonework, which would be easily fixable with a bit of mastic, but between the frame and casement itself. They came from the UK. The only reason for choosing stuff like this is the low price.

So we want to replace it with better quality and something that better suits the building.

Our neighbours had theirs installed a couple of years ago, and they did a very nice job indeed, so I though I'd contact the same company for a quote. I emailed, no reply. I phoned - straight to voicemail, no reply. I emailed again and phoned again. Silence. So I did some digging.

The owner of the business, Affordable UK Designs, had a business of the same name in Blackpool. It went into liquidation in January this year. The French version of this company still has an active website.

I realise it is a long shot, but has anyone had any dealings with them, either in the UK or in France? A company going into volutary liquidation is not necessarily an awful thing. It might be that he just decided to leave UK and set up again in France, he may have a very good reason for doing that. But alarm bells are starting to ring.

As a side, I am now getting Facebook suggestions. Apparently Facebook seems to think I might want to be Friends with Scott Braddock...
It really is insidious the way in which Facebook links people up. It obviously knows that I have tried to find this man.
 
Why not make your own timber windows Steve? They’re not particularly difficult to produce and they would be much more in keeping with the heritage of the building than any plastic facsimiles. Then you also have the bonus of some footage for YouTube if you fancy.

The Facebook thing is weird, I had a post come up of a community page at the other end of the country showing someone had found a lost driving license in the area, funnily enough I went to school with the person who’s driving license it was! He wasn’t tagged in the post, I’m not friends with the guy on Facebook, nor do I have any mutual friends with him, and I haven’t ever looked him up! Not sure if it’s just one of those very weird coincidences or as you say, they know more than they let on.
 
Steve and Dan? Fortuitous that you have both posted about Farcepuke getting more like Big Brudda by the day. Mine has inundated me with posts related to two searches I made a while back (greyhound rescue and MIND/DASH receipes...totally unrelated!).
My point is, I can see the logic, it's trying to help, but the algorithm (or socially insufficient Tiawanese geek programmer) just keeps hammering away. Then, it fills you up daily with "friend?? Hmmm?" suggestions. I wouldn't mind if they were common, or even peripheral, to my 'phone book, but some of them are on the tenuous basis that I came across them as part of a bigger grouping whilst researching boggits or whizbelows, and FB "Friended" me on every single sodding poster on that group.
I find it creepy, invasive, unwanted and a downright waste of time.

Sorry Steve, hope you get a resolution to your windows.

Sam
 
I have thought about making them myself. I've made windows before and done a very good job of them, EIISSM. but there are 12 of them and two doors, it's the scale of the project that is so daunting. I don't have the energy to tackle something that big any more. I'm currently making a bed and after 3 weeks I'm still on stock preparation. 20 years ago I would have had it finished by now. And then there is the kitchen...
No, I want this done this year and it is June already.
 
90% of time upvc windows can be put right easily enough, hinges are the usual failure point, they wear ( too many linkages and often plastic corner wedges) the. A bit of attention to the gearbox loxpcking mechanisms and “mushroom”. A bit of elbow grease with a cream upvc cleaner , and they’ll look nearly as good as new.

Upvcspares4repairs.co.uk

Are my go to for parts, they’re really helpfull and where a part may be obsolete they’ve always had a replacement.
 
These modern plastic windows all start with the UPVC profile that is used and they are not all the same, some are far worse than others. They also come in different widths which impacts the type of sealed panel that is used, ie the spacing between the glass.

The brand I use is Rehau who have been around for decades and I have found over the years to be very good but some brands are awful, probably recycled milk cartons.
 
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