Secondary Glazing in Victorian listed house
daniel6478
7 years ago
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Comments (17)Your plans sound great. The best way to save your sanity is to get a good contractor that you trust (I know, they are rare animals) but reputable, professional companies often save you money, time and mental health than those cheap 'cowboy' builders that don't know what they are doing. About the flooring, I see no problem in having different type of wood on each floor. I think the only problem with that is the stairs and landings. It may look strange to have a different kind of wood on the landing than the wood of the stair treads, but if you cover them in carpet then there's no issue. (Argument for the wife: the floor should match the wood of the stairs, if you keep the Minton tiles, you won't have a problem, however if you put engineered wood in the hall, then you'd have to have the stairs in the same wood, otherwise it can look strange... try and see if that works :)) About the windows, we were able to reach an 'undocumented' agreement with the council conservation officer. As long as we keep single glazing downstairs, so it respects the conservation rules, we can have double glazing on the first and second floor, as it's hard to tell the difference looking up from the street level. So we had a joiner who made us new sash windows but with double glazing for the upper floors. If I remember correctly the discussions at the time, there are also some newish products they use for listed properties: this ultra thin glass panels placed at a very close range to each other.... best is if you google "double glazing listed sash windows" and have a look at the results. https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=double%20glazing%20listed%20sash%20windows Seriously, insulation is paramount for an efficient underfloor heating system. Try your best to have as much insulation as you can. For the attic, we used thick board, then this aluminium membrane, then the foiled covered plasterboards. It seemed a bit of a kill at the time, but trust me, our loft is now the warmest area in the house (see pics below). Look into different types of insulation, you can find thinner boards or some membrane you can use behind plasterboards. Hope this helps. Nite-nite!...See MorePOLL: Single, double or triple glazed?
Comments (55)chanti1, my grandparents used to have massive condensation problems with their double glazing as it was added as an afterthought, it had about a 4 inch gap and was not sealed so they would have to keep cloths in the gap to mop it all up. In my parents house there were a couple of windows prone to this problem between the panes - caused when the seal on the double glazed units failed. Because you can't get to it the result is eventually mould. The units had to be changed which to my mind seems drastic and wasteful. There should be a way of removing, cleaning and resealing units on site. Of course condensation happens with single glazing all the time. Where I live now we get condensation on the outside of the window at night. Air conditioning indoors and extreme humidity outside with night time temperatures still in the high twenties centigrade does that....See MoreVictorian Renovation in London - Part 2
Comments (201)Thanks guys - we did a lot of experimenting and testing on some old floorboards before deciding on this stuff. The Osmo oil gives a deep and rich finish on old pitch pine that looks very different to varnish - deeper and with more of the grain being brought out. It's more like a beeswax finish from olden times, without the backbreaking labour and maintenance. Interestingly on the new boards (in the top bedroom), it makes far less difference: the new pine just looks yellow and shiny, much as it would if varnished. But the oil should be tougher and lower maintenance. We decided to restore these floors rather than replace as they were actually in remarkably good condition: this house has never had fitted carpets fitted, nor central heating fitted until 2014, and when it was installed it was installed with regard to keeping the floors intact (many systems installed in past decades saw the boards sawn up and hacked about). I wanted look that is obviously original, and can't be mistaken for engineered wood. I did think about a limewashed finish, but bottled it at the last minute and went totally traditional, as I thought less risk of a finish done to a trend that would be hard to reverse....See MoreAlternative double glazing for an old Victorian coloured window
Comments (2)I know you can get internal secondary glazing, but not external as far I know. There might not be enough depth on the outside....See Moredaniel6478
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