Beyond repair.

[Dave Thornley]

Attached a couple of photos showing an opening light that has seen better days. The frame and the non opening light are fine. For some reason this one light has suffered badly. There being no drip head does not help.
I was hoping before removing the light that a bit of wood filler would work, how wrong I was. I do not really want to go to the effort, and expense of changing out the whole thing, as for one thing there is another matching window near it
and would look silly with two different windows, basing that on the assumption I cannot get an exact replacement. Would you suggest it is worth trying to repair or not? I am thinking of cutting out the rotten wood and slicing in replacement pieces.
Oh and by the way the property is listed.
Thanks

 

[Wayners]

Dry flex resin and some wood you could fix that.
Limit the amount of resin though as it's not cheap. There are other resin brands you can used but using as much wood as possible is the trick

 

[^woody^]

Strictly by removing the sash, you should need LBC, and you definitely will if you replace it whole. And you will need to match it, not just fit any old replacement.

The bottom rail can be replaced and the stile and muntin spliced.

I doubt resin would be possible to that extent, and in any case, filler should be kept to a minimum for listed building repairs. You are obligated to use traditional methods when formal consent is not required, and get consent if that's not possible.

 

[Dave Thornley]

Dry flex resin and some wood you could fix that.
Limit the amount of resin though as it's not cheap. There are other resin brands you can used but using as much wood as possible is the trick

Tell me. I use the Ronseal woodfiller, always found good but as you sa the price has rocketed.

 

[Dave Thornley]

Strictly by removing the sash, you should need LBC, and you definitely will if you replace it whole. And you will need to match it, not just fit any old replacement.

The bottom rail can be replaced and the stile and muntin spliced.

I doubt resin would be possible to that extent, and in any case, filler should be kept to a minimum for listed building repairs. You are obligated to use traditional methods when formal consent is not required, and get consent if that's not possible.

You sound like my conservation officer It is not a sash window what you see is the opening light from a stormproof casement window.

 

[Wayners]

Ronseal wood filler is not the same as dryflex resin