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Thanks GrahamH – yes I do get some very odd looks when I tell people I want to keep the existing windows, but then I’m a quare one anyway;-)
I’ll follow up your suggestions, esp about 2ndry glazing suppliers, and if I come across any useful contacts, I’ll post them so that anyone else with a soft spot for steel will have less trouble than I’m having!
Ta.Ah yes, Rusty Cogs, that’s life with steel windows and no central heating.. you had to be tough in those days:-)
I’m committed to keeping the steel windows in the 60s house I have inherited, but they need to be restored and I need to have secondary glazing, as I said in previous post, and I’m still looking for help re those two issues – does anyone know a company/tradesperson with a track record on restoring/repainting steel windows, and has anyone had reasonably-priced sec glazing put in – the only quote I’ve got [many companies don’t do sec glazing at all] was roughly the same as if I was putting in new PVC windows!
I’m teetering on the brink of saying ‘blank this for a game of sensitive preservation of 1960s domestic architecture, I need new windows and a warmer house!’ ….oops the first version of this managed to post itself – I had self-centered the Angela’s Ashes reference as we were very cold, but not really that poor!!
STEEL WINDOWS are my motivation for joining this discussion group! I’ve been ‘lurking’ on this thread for over a year, totally agreeing with the horror expressed about inappropriate PVC windows, but mostly looking for info on restoring/maintaining 1960s steel windows. I’ve inherited a 60s semi in Dublin and I want to keep the facade as it was when built, which means keeping the extremely chilly steel windows [ice on the inside of the window of my bedroom when I was a child is my ‘You young folk don’t know how lucky you are/Ni beidh ar leitheid aris ann’ trump card:o], and installing secondary glazing.
I was hoping someone in this thread had come across a company or tradesperson who could do a good job of restoring and painting steel windowframes. I haven’t seen any such recommendation, and so I’m putting a request out there.
Also, not many window companies seem to do secondary glazing, and the one quote I had was very expensive.
Any leads on either of these problems would be much appreciated, and you can bask in the knowledge that you may have helped save an endangered species: the suburban steel window!STEEL WINDOWS are my motivation for joining this discussion group! I’ve been ‘lurking’ on this thread for over a year, totally agreeing with the horror expressed about inappropriate PVC windows, but mostly looking for info on restoring/maintaining 1960s steel windows. I’ve inherited a 60s semi in Dublin and I want to keep the facade as it was when built, which means keeping the extremely chilly steel windows [ice on the inside of the window of my bedroom is my ‘Angela’s Ashes/We were so poor..’ trump card:o], and installing secondary glazing.
I was hoping someone in this thread had come across a company or tradesperson who could do a good job of restoring and painting steel windowframes. I haven’t seen any such recommendation, and so I’m putting a request out there.
Also, not many window companies seem to do secondary glazing, and the one quote I had was very expensive.
Any leads on either of these problems would be much appreciated, and you can bask in the knowledge that you may have helped save an endangered species: the suburban steel window!
