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New old window
Landscaper2
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since moving to a new house, I have been trying to keep on top of the job list created (Potty Lotty is a mean taskmaster!) and one of the latest plans is to fit a window into a rather dark garden shed.
the shed is well past its best, but by knocking out some of the old panels, I could fit a window and save the cost of a greenhouse and retain the garden space for more raised beds and bird tables, but where to find an old servicable frame, any ideas?
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Double glazing firms usually have old windows hanging about. Often with the glass still in
In the sticks near Peterborough
what you do, just get cracking
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whatever, i meant to say!
I've been out this weekend, skip-dipping, and have left a message with the local window-fitter, he's on holiday in New Zealand, what's that about?
my experience of window fitters is that they have little regard for re-cycling and the old frames get cut and ripped out, I've posted an enquiry on the local free-cycle page, so may get a sniff of something there.
in the meantime, I'll be walking the dog down a few new roads in search of skips and signs of activity, being naturally nosey is an advantage.
I like the idea of using old windows. My shed and greenhouse are handmade from old house windows and salvaged of wood. It's been very well made by the previous owner. It's really big the size of a double garage and only cost a fraction if what a brought shed cost. Ask any builders you know to keep an eye open. I think businesses need to pay for dumping stuff at the skip. I may be wrong about that. But if that's the case you'd be saving them a bit if money. My father in law used to sell windows and has several windows he used as samples laying in his garage. So its worth advertising locally. You never know what people have laying around.
Our farmer nieghbour, whose wife runs a riding school, has used old French doors reclaimed from the local double glazing company to build the walls of a mounted observation post for judges and commentators next to their big outdoor manège.
Since then, he's used more to make a sheltered picnic area for competition days for competitors and spectators.
When we bought this old farmhouse and had some nasty white UPVC windows replaced with wooden framed ones we kept the old frames and their windows and I used them as coldframe lids for a while before giving them all away to a chap who used them to make a greenhouse.......
Amazing what you can do with some reclaimed bits and bobs.
Still no window in the shed???
Thanks for the posts, and the offer from 1Runnybeak1!
On the basis that there is nothing a German soldier cannot do, I have now made a frame myself out of spare bits of timber. When we moved into the "new house" the double bed I made wouldn't go up the stairs, so the frame is now a raised herb bed in the garden and the slats are now the basis for the shed window, just got to decide whether to make it a casement or sliding sash!
Lotty is likely to want curtains and a window box, strange how the jobs take on a life of their own........