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    Finishing off around new frames

    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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    Fitting replacement timber windows

    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...
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    lower glazing bead for timber window

    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...
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