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The windows were supplied by a local long standing company. I presume they would have been made to regulations. Apertures are big enough for eggress...but no special hinges like I have on my plastic windows, just hinged on one side. I'm not sure if the glass is marked. I'll check when I am next...

Thanks for the reply guys. I am not aware of what "pug" is....I'm not a builder...just a diy'er. And I have not come across polysulphide either, but will look them up.

I am fitting wooden double glazed frames to my mum's house. It has rendered walls. The old frames had the rendering overlapping the frame. I chiselled back the rendering flush with the aperture before removing the old windows. How should I best finish off around the edges? I have put expanding...

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Gentlemen. Thank you for your information. I put the first window in yesterday. SOme observations. The window only just fitted in the aperture width wise. If I had not allowed for a 10mm clearance I would have had a lot of resizing to do. As I only have hand tools this could have taken a long...

I wasn't sure what the aperture sizes were. The edges of the frames are covered in render and I could not remove all of that on the upstairs windows without hiring a scafold tower and I only want to do that once. So I chipped away a small area that I could reach from inside and measured at one...

Thanks again Crank. I went to Screwfix for the gun and foam but they said they had no cleaner and they couldn't order it as it looked as if they will not be getting any more in. A bit daft selling foam and gun but nothing to clean it with. I'll keep the can and gun connected up and get some...

Thanks for that Crank. Are you sure about not having to shoot cleaner through the foam gun after use? Screwfix has the gun and foam but no cleaner. Neither has another supplier. Can only get it for about £11 a tin. A bit more than £4 from Screwfix......but if it saves a gun it's cheap! With...

Thanks to those who answered my previous thread. Fitting windows is a new thing for me. I have some Crittal metal windows to replace and am doing the first one on Saturday. I have had the new timber frames made 10mm undersized (5mm all round). I am assuming I need spacers (wedges) all round to...

Thanks for the info. I have routed a slot under the bead anyway. Can't do any harm. Crank39, I believe my frames don't have these groves front to back (they're not here with me at the moment). What sort of dimensions would they need to be? I'll hand cut them before I put the frame in.

I have just received a set of timber windows for my mums house and the lower piece of beading used to fix the glass in is deeper (front to back) than the other three pieces by about 9 mm. The window company says that this is to stop water seeping back under the beading and thus compromising the...