Re: Re: Irish say no to PVC windows

Ya Graham. Steel windows look great in a modernist way but they are not great functionally. I lived in a house with some steels and some sashes (which must have been 50 years older than the steels at least) and the old wooden sashes were in far better shape. The steel windows had no tolerance for rust or overly generous coats of paint (both of which seem to be inevitable after a couple of decades); either they jam shut or they’re impossible to close properly.