Sash window repairs and restoration in Islington

Islington has some of London's finest late-Georgian and early-Victorian terraces: the squares of Barnsbury and Canonbury, the terraces off Upper Street, and the Georgian rows of Highbury Place and Highbury Terrace. The earlier houses have slender six-over-six sashes, now and then still glazed with old crown or cylinder glass, and many keep their folding shutters in the reveals. The later Victorian streets of Holloway and Archway have heavier two-over-two and one-over-one sashes with horns. Most of it is restorable; very little of it needs replacing.

Islington's Georgian sashes are tall, and tall sashes draught badly: the gap at the meeting rail runs the full width of the window, and a century of paint build-up and badly replaced beads has usually widened it. We rout brush seals into the existing sashes and fit a compression seal at the meeting rail and bottom rail. Nothing is visible when the window is closed, the sashes still run fully, and the work is done from inside. It carries a five-year guarantee, provided the seals have not been damaged by a third party, adjusted or tampered with.