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  • Blarg reckon this is beyond me to sort. Looks like the box had rotted around the lower part of the external facing rail and had been bodge fixed with render.

    What type of person sorts this kind of mess out? The guys who serviced the sashes missed it I think.

  • I do, if I'm doing the whole job. That is back to the wood on everything, new glass etc.

    Otherwise as @TW has said it's too small a job to hire someone equipped to deal with it.

    Those don't look too bad but I have had to fix up some really bad problems.

  • Yeah. We elected to keep them and have them serviced rather than stripping the whole lot and have them replaced because they weren't too fucked.

    What would you do in this case?

    If I had to do it, I would be thinking

    • gently strip back the render around the lower part of the rail
    • cut out the rotted / decaying section
    • splice in some replacement wood, somehow.
    • patch repair the render, somehow
    • fix the cracking in the render around the widow
    • stand back and cry
    • pub
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