This Grade 2 listed cottage still had many of it’s original oak frames dating back to 1788. Some of the sashes are slightly later Georgian. In this particular case, the sash didn’t fit fantastically in the frame, particularly around the rebates. This made for a pretty drafty bedroom, so we were asked to see what we could do.
As the external fit of the window was very good, just needed to focus our attention on some minor repairs to the sash first, in Accoya.
With the sash repaired, we could make any repairs to the frame. These needed to be in Oak. We used reclaimed English oak, salvaged from a job just down the road in Bisham; as local as we could get. You can see the colour difference in the wood, but the new will age back towards the original’s colour and importantly, it’ll move and act in the same way as the original oak.
We got the rebate as nicely tuned to the sash as possible before refitting some top quality forged hardware to ensure the window closes tightly and consistently for years to come.
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