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Yes yes - forrin ones tilt and swing in which takes some getting your head round as we’re so used to the opposite. No doubt eurofolk can’t understand how we exist without tilting and exterior shutters. Though I think Velfac are Danish…
I slightly regret being so grumpy about them now, but do stand by the view that from an engineering perspective they’re a worse product for more money than so many others.
But if it’s slim frames you’re after they’re your boys and they do have lovely warm wood inside.
I also think Victorian houses are an equal low point in British town planning and architecture, alongside 1990s Wilson Connelly stuff. The older I get the more Mary Mary I seem to be.
Luckily I live in a Stirling prize winning house* so can lob such stones about willy nilly.
. * do I fuck.