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The Sash Window Restoration Versus Replacement

Sash window restoration is not such a commonplace art any more. With everyone scaling up, making room for more, and replacing the old with the new even before considering its value, the sash window has suddenly become an iconic piece of art work.

A sash window is very much like what many of today would consider a standard window. However, instead of two panes of glass stacked on top of each other, the sash window has six panes (usually) that stack atop of each other. With three panes on the bottom, three panes on top, the pattern is then repeated to the upper window, each panes separated by a thin but remarkably strong muntin bars.

With the world being in such a hurry to buy something better and newer and bigger, these windows are actually slowly becoming impossible to find. They are historically significant and any home that is lucky enough to have them should try to retain them.

The sash window restoration is like an art in practice. The small panes of glass can be removed and replaced in order to keep the window in top operating condition. The weighted pullet system that hangs inside the frame is more difficult to get to, but it can be fixed and restored as well.

The sash window restoration is one of the skills that requires a very dedicated hand. Recreating the single paned seal of the sash window is not particularly easy, but it can be done with skill and precision when you know who to ask.

Sash window restoration is one that should always be considered well before replacement. These windows carry our unique history, and tell the story of travels from and to afar, creating lands of freedom and lands of wealth. These are the windows that spot London and that can be seen from the roadway of Georgia’s loneliest highways

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The History of The Box Sash Window

.Sash windows in the form of very basic timber shutters have a history dating back as far as the thirteenth century.

In the sixteenth century glazed sash windows started to appear, these windows sliding horizontally. Vertical glazed sash windows would not appear until the mid seventeenth century and it is believed they originated in France.

French nobility escaping the guillotine in France arrived in England bringing with them the latest technology and designs of more advanced sash windows.

The first recorded glazed sliding sash window was installed for the Queen Mother who had just returned from France with a highly skilled French joiner who pushed for the complete renovation of Somerset house in London.

The exact history of how the weighted and balanced glazed sash window came about is not clear, although some say that the invention was a British one, many could say it was a french one.

As an updated re-make of the original vertical sliding window glazed with small squares of glass and very thick glazing bars due to the delicate and primitive glass available at the time would have made it a very heavy window to operate.

Counter balancing was first used in doors. There is documented evidence of weights and ropes being fitted to doors in various parts of Whitehall. It was only a matter of time before this system was applied to windows.

At no point in history has any one person laid claim to the invention of the sash window nor has there ever been a patent applied for.

Glass producers began to make glass that was more reliable and stronger and the British Government of the day stopped the taxation of glass, this all helped towards sash windows with large panes without bars.

It was a sign of being well off during the glass taxation period to have large glass windows in the UK.

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