2012 Window
My house in High Blantyre, has modern double glazed windows, despite it being 285 years old. However, there is one exception. This single glazed window in the kitchen is still an old window, which lets in too many draughts and coldness.
Before winter sets in, its now time for me to replace this with a modern, double glazed window to make the kitchen warmer. There can’t be many windows left in Blantyre with this old design. Who can remember rope and pulley wooden, vertically sliding windows? Secure, but, the little rope holes at the side fair “blaw a gale!”
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Hoch McGandy You can still buy double glazed versions that are up to modern standards.Not cheap though ! A double glaxed one that size with hopper comes in at roughly £140 direct from the manufacturer.
On social media:
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Hoch McGandy You can still buy double glazed versions that are up to modern standards.Not cheap though ! A double glaxed one that size with hopper comes in at roughly £140 direct from the manufacturer.
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The Blantyre Project thank you. I’m all for preserving the character of this house, so this is something to think about.
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Alan Baird iv changed a few pulley ropes over the years , opening up the pocket to find that the weight had disappeared down a cavity in the old sandstone
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Marian Maguire Remember my dad fixing the pulley ropes.
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Wendy Wilson I had a listed tenement flat in Edinburgh & got mine refurbished – new ropes & draught excluders. the results were great.
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Alan Rochead No need to replace it. These guys can restore, draught-proof and upgradr it to double glazing in the process. I’ve seen them work with a lot worse.
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Andy Callaghan Haha. In Rosendale we had these rope n pulley windows. My Mum would lift the window fully, sit out on the sill with her legs inside, pull the window down on her thighs n wash the outside panes. We were 3 floors up. Bit of a health n safety issue these days. But the past is another country…
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Ann Adair Creechan My mum did that as well.
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Margueritte Diamond Boyle Andy Callaghan, that’s how I was taught to wash windows in about 1968/9 in Hamilton, 3 storeys up. We called them sash Windows.
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James Stirling i was just going to print that margueritte , sash windows
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Jeanette Allardyce Ward Remember them well, used to clean them for my mum, hanging out to do the top part was murder, esp as I lived upstairs lol
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Jeanette Allardyce Ward Had them in our own house too, all the wee squares of glass at the top x
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John Forrest Sash and cord windows the best in there time