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Sash windows and energy conservation : See blog entry for May 07. This shows the window frames with both sets of windows removed. The new (double) secondary glazing system frame is at the front, with the original 70 year-old wooden window frame behind. You can see the "pockets" where the sash weights are fitted, on the ends of cords that are attached to the windows, so that the windows slide up and down and are held in place, balanced, wherever they come to rest. Use good wood, design the window recess in the building well, and maintain it all against the weather. And take time to get it all right. From there on, a rub down and a couat of gloss every five years should see you through.
Sash windows and energy conservation
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Evening on Pendle : a Friday evening in April, to be exact. Good  to walk up there while the rest of the country sit in their cars on the way home ......
Evening on Pendle
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Angus wind-bathing up Pendle : You get a good view if you stand on the Ordnance Survey "trig point" plinth atop Pendle Hill. Here I am taking in the view of an evening, thinking of the steep descent and how nice it would be to have a hang-glider !   (April 2007)
Angus wind-bathing up Pendle
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Tarbert, circa 01910 : Tarbert in the time of Para Handy and the Vital Spark
Tarbert, circa 01910
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Tarbert, 02007 : The coal lorry still wends its way around this idyllic spot ....
Tarbert, 02007
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It's grim up north : view from Darwen Tower, looking north to Wolf Fell and the Forest of Bowland, with Sunnyhurst, Ewood and Blackburn in the near distance
It's grim up north
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No trouble at t' Mill : the building is slowly learning to accommodate families and even courses ...
No trouble at t' Mill
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Tales from the sandpit : this week, Australia, and we are studying "Songlines" by Bruce Chatwin
Tales from the sandpit
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It will rain on the sandpit : I don't care if there's not a cloud in the sky - this is Lancashire and rain is an integral part of the demonstration !
It will rain on the sandpit
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