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  • The building ‘management’ company had wrapped foil faced bitumen flashing over the masonry and up and over the timber.
    😖
    No doubt they charged the leaseholders (who actually own the windows) a fortune too.

    My repair was a bit of a bodge but it’ll last 20 years and replacing the whole window would’ve been £££

  • Looks like a great job to me. I’m hoping that our front windows get a repair to that standard in the works we have coming up. What wood did you use there, if you can remember?

  • What wood did you use there, if you can remember?

    It’s probably meranti or maybe sapele, it’s whatever Howarth Timber were selling as ‘hardwood’.
    It’s sustainability is unknown.

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