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Our current windows is already good at reducing the noise, and it’s not on the main road, the only kind of noise might go through is those who’s in the car appreciation thread.
If noise is an issue you can get acoustic laminated glass which could replace the single glazed sliding sash. You'd probably need some extra balance weights as it's about 6mm thick, rather than your standard 4mm (maybe 3mm)
With replacement double glazed windows, 4mm glass, 20mm air gap and 4mm glass is the norm. A fairly effective and not particularly expensive option would be specifying 4,18,6. Being different thickness/weights, the two panes vibrate at different frequencies and transmit less noise.... you can even get the acoustic laminated incorporated in to a double glazed unit.
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a new kitchen from Wren.
Sorry to join in the poo-pooing but Wren were ridiculously expensive when we enquired there, then had a sudden 'sale' which dropped the price to merely three times the Ikea kitchen. Then even though we showed interest they never called back to organise the follow-up meeting.
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I’d recommend getting a Howdens kitchen for less money.
Quality is good, likely to get a kitchen fitter sooner, and also if there is any missing or items needing changing, you can normally pick up a replacement on the day.I’ve just had one fitted, needed to replace 350mm wide unit to a 300mm unit, get an extra corner post and get a shorter door for the oven tower. All sorted in a day, rather than waiting weeks or months for Wren to sort out.
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Personally I'd say fuck em and do it last minute so keep quiet and then chip the price on day of completion. Not without risk so that would be up to you.
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Howdens is ‘trade only’ so you have to have a kitchen fitter in mind.
It costs £30-40 to spin up a Limited company, buy from Howdens, then disolve it. If you wanted to pay a fitter just to fit, and not to add retail markup too.
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Don’t rush stuff!
Extremely good advice.
Original quote was over £10,000 with Everest (with discount !!).
Anglian came and quote us north of £7600, still a lots but way better than Everest.
Next one is a local firm who will come to quote the windows and see what their price is.
The reason I went for Everest/Anglian is that I quickly learnt that this industry is horrifically inaccessible and they are the least inaccessible one, locals firm are the worst that my girlfriends is now dealing with it leaving me out of the loop (she interpreted everything for me to make sure with both got the same information but it’s still not exactly the same as having full access).
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Can't you remove the render? No more damp, lovely bricks, no money for damp fixing charlatans
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Just had ours redone with Howdens and highly recommend - although avoid the worksurfaces, they seemingly don't control the production and have no interest at flogging them at a reasonable price. Go armed with other quotes, we pushed them and they happily took another 15-20% of the quote (20-25% cheaper than both other quotes for solid wood cabinets) and chucked in various freebies along the way. Have a chippy I can recommend to fit as well if you are east?
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Has anyone had secondary glazing installed? We live on a main road albeit in a Scottish village but do get a fair amount of road noise until about 7pm. As I'm now working from home full time I'm thinking about getting secondary glazing on the front windows.
Ideally I want it barely noticeable aesthetically as we have fairly new sash and case windows, but for it to reduce road noise.
Any recommendation/suggestions would be awesome thanks!
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Can't you remove the render? No more damp, lovely bricks, no money for damp fixing charlatans
We were told by doing so, the brick will get damaged.
However they says you can replace with lime rendering to allow it to breathe without needing to replace the bricks.
(We have pebbledash that’s painted over).
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For what it's worth, we also have pebbledash painted over (In Catford too) and would love to get it brought back to brick and all proper. However, it's going to be really hard to get someone to give you a specific quote as before they remove the render and clean the bricks there is no way of telling if you'll need to replace 50 or 200 bricks on top of the quote for pebbledash removal and cleaning.
We're planning on doing more of the essential work first before moving onto this further down the line.
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Rubble under the floor, filling the gap between the dwarf wall and outer wall.
Floor joists directly abutting the wall.
DPC breached outside by a built up path, made worse by being rendered down to with cement over gypsum (the previous owners had tried to make the side path into a room...)
The odd brick just completely missing.
Inner walls skimmed in cement, plastic and plaster.
Cracked drains and blocked drain gullys.
Incorrect venting in the eaves.
To name but a few things...
I did see that someone had, at some point, done the injection damp proofing voodoo. Which did fuck all, obviously.