Sash Window Repair & Restoration in Gloucester

Gloucester's period stock falls into three broad groups, and each fails in its own way. The Georgian and early Victorian townhouses around Brunswick Road, Spa Road and the Docks carry tall box-frame sashes with slender glazing bars and, in the best-preserved examples, original crown glass that is well worth saving. The dense Victorian terraces of Kingsholm, Barton & Tredworth and Wotton have smaller two-over-two horned sashes in soft red brick openings where the sill and bottom rail take the worst of the weather. Later Edwardian villas along Denmark Road and Stroud Road tend to have heavier sashes with deeper bottom rails and, often, decades of paint locking them shut.

Sitting low on the Severn plain, the city gets long damp spells and driving rain on west and south-west elevations. That moisture, combined with pollution and traffic vibration on the main radial roads, is why so many Gloucester sashes are stiff, rattly and rotten at the base while the rest of the frame is still perfectly sound slow-grown pine.

We also get a steady stream of work reversing 1980s and 1990s uPVC replacements. Where the original box frame survives behind the plastic, we can rebuild a matched timber sash and put the correct proportions back into the elevation — usually the single biggest improvement you can make to a Gloucester period frontage.