Windows the wrong size?

[fenderblast]

Hi,

We've recently had 7 new UPVC windows fitted to our house, but we were a bit concerned by the trim strips covering the 'expansion gaps'. I've just pulled one of the trim strips off the top edge of the inside of one of the windows, to find a honking great big gap filled with expanding foam. Does this look right, or has our fitter just bought the wrong sized units and bodged round the gaps with foam and trim?

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Wayners]

Fitters have a habit if ordering windows too small and packing up the bottom or adding strips. They also like foam and plastic cover strips.
It's just the way the widow industry is.
There is also a problem with openings with no cavity closers. The top of brick cavity are rarely closed off with slate or whatever they use..
The end result is not very satisfactory and widows can leak water or you get that fine sand blowing in the movement crack around plastic frame edge.
Looking at you pictures the fitter has done a neat job but I can't say if it's correct.

 

[martygturner]

Time and costs... standard sizes plopped in are available off the shelf, made to measure 4 weeks odd, DIY UPVC out at Keynsham are 6 weeks at the moment, glass units take a while to be made.

How quick was the order to fit ?

 

[ronniecabers]

Was the fitter the same person who surveyed them? If not its definetly not his fault, hes just fitted what he was given.
Now , ill be honest there should always be an element of an expansion gap but personally I'd prefer to see, in this case, that the window went between the brick work externally but ideally behind the plaster in the reveals internally.

Can I ask , was it a national company?