Most people choose glazing bars and paint colours first. An inspector looks at heat, air, fire and glass — and your order should start there too. A building control officer rarely asks what colour the frames are. They ask for a number. Since the rules tightened on 15 June 2022, new windows and doors in […]

A bus pulling away at 5am. A flight path that changes with the wind. Noise enquiries often start with a sentence like that — and they nearly always end with the same question: what will the glass actually do? Noise pollution is a common reason people start looking at new joinery, especially in London. People […]

Almost every window company now calls itself green. Very few show their working — and that’s where an honest buyer should start. We make bespoke wooden windows from FSC® certified timber, so we have a stake in this subject. For eco-conscious buyers, wood looks like the obvious eco-friendly choice. That’s exactly why we’d rather give […]

A timber window is only as good as its last coat of paint. Get the finish right and the joinery lasts for generations. We factory-finish every window we supply, so we spend a lot of time thinking about paint. A controlled factory coat is the most durable finish a timber window can have. But paint […]

A bay window changes a room. It pushes the wall outward, pulls in natural light from three directions, and gives you the window seat every period home seems to promise. Get the timber and the proportions right, and it’s the making of a house. It’s worth doing well. We manufacture the timber windows that make […]

In this article, you’ll discover: Introduction French doors reshape how a room feels, connecting inside and outside. A single well-specified pair can open a kitchen onto a terrace, or frame a view that brick walls had hidden. This guide is for homeowners weighing up our range of french doors, architects specifying joinery for clients, and […]

The quote and the delivery are the easy part. What a window supplier does in the years after tells you whether you chose well. In this article, you’ll discover: Introduction We manufacture and supply bespoke timber joinery, and we don’t fit it. So we see after-sales from a clear angle: what a supplier owes you, […]

Secondary glazing promises warmer, quieter rooms without touching your original windows. Sometimes that’s exactly right. Sometimes it’s a false economy. In this article, you’ll discover: Introduction We manufacture bespoke timber windows, and we don’t supply secondary glazing. That makes this an honest guide, not a sales pitch. We see two kinds of enquiry every week. […]

Winter is hard on timber joinery. Driving rain, frost, and months of central heating all leave their mark. Then spring arrives. That’s when the damage shows. In this article, you’ll discover: Introduction We manufacture bespoke timber windows every week, and we see the same pattern each March. Homeowners ring us about windows that “suddenly” failed, […]

Most homeowners know that new windows make a house look better, and recognise they windows affect the value of your home directly. Far fewer know how much value they add at sale, how much faster a property moves with quality joinery, or where the line sits between “worth it” and “diminishing returns”. This guide is […]