Making sash windows

[Oryxdesign]

.......The best thing about them for me is the narrowness of the seal, which allows for a 7mm rebate in your profiles, where as a standard 4-16-4 unit has a seal that seems to be typically 15mm. .......

That is excellent news! I'm fed up looking at those crappy off-the-shelf windows that have about as much design finesse as a rutting elephant and more wood than glass - especially on small glazed units.

Me too, by the way I'm only making new sashes so I suppose it would be considered a repair and not be covered by regs?

 

[RogerS]

.......The best thing about them for me is the narrowness of the seal, which allows for a 7mm rebate in your profiles, where as a standard 4-16-4 unit has a seal that seems to be typically 15mm. .......

That is excellent news! I'm fed up looking at those crappy off-the-shelf windows that have about as much design finesse as a rutting elephant and more wood than glass - especially on small glazed units.

Me too, by the way I'm only making new sashes so I suppose it would be considered a repair and not be covered by regs?

Definitely a repair job

 

[Oryxdesign]

Yeah I'm going to do the boxes next year, that'll be a repair job too???

 

[agbagb]

I dont know if you've come across this previous thread https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=296244#296244. Some good links and sugestions in there.

I'm not convinced about the gas filling to up the U value as it will leak out in time. But if gets passed by BCO it does have a major plus point.

Andy

 

[Jake]

I'm not convinced about the gas filling to up the U value as it will leak out in time. But if gets passed by BCO it does have a major plus point.

I looked at the same point, and found a variety of people espousing that view - but they never had any actual evidence, and some of them seemed to be IGU makers who didn't like the competition, and didn't want to make the extra investment...

On the other hand, I couldn't find much evidence on the other side of the debate which wasn't from spacer-makers, who naturally have an interest in saying that the seals perform very well. At least they had some evidence though.