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Renegade Conservatory Guy's Photo Album
Matthew Glover (a.k.a the Renegade Conservatory Guy) recently published a series of photos taken while on holiday in the Lake District showing what wooden windows really look like without regular maintenance. It was a great piece (as you can see for yourself by clicking here) and prompted this response from Martin Randall:
Hello Matthew,
Just wanted to comment on your '10 reasons to choose uPVC' piece. Great photos! And ones every installer should have to hand when they sell to homeowners. People forget, photos like these were not uncommon in the 1980s. The country's housing stock was a disaster. Unless homeowners spent a lot of their free time (often when on their holidays) repairing and painting their timber windows and doors, or they paid a decorator to do it, then their windows and doors would get into this state. Yes, these are extreme examples, but remember when new build timber windows would start to rot within three years? You could push your finger through the paint and into the wood! And if you left it any longer than 3 years, then more often than not you would have a major and expensive job on your hands.
That's why homeowners welcomed uPVC with open arms. They loved uPVC because their windows and doors needed very little maintenance. They could then do what they want with their spare time, rather than have to worry about sorting out their rotten timber windows.
Maybe the anti-PVC propaganda in the national press is written by people who weren't around in the 1980s to experience those draughty, rotten, rattling timber windows and doors and never saw what happened when the wind, rain and snow gets at timber?
Wood is good, I love it, it's beautiful in furniture and floors, but unless you have the time, the inclination and the money, it's asking for trouble to buy wooden windows and doors. Installers, who show these photographs to homeowners who are too young to know or whose memories have failed, will be doing them a favour. uPVC maintained value in our homes and gave us back our much valued spare time. That's good value at any price!
Kind regards.
Martin Randall
Chairman, Crystal Direct
Hello Matthew,
Just wanted to comment on your '10 reasons to choose uPVC' piece. Great photos! And ones every installer should have to hand when they sell to homeowners. People forget, photos like these were not uncommon in the 1980s. The country's housing stock was a disaster. Unless homeowners spent a lot of their free time (often when on their holidays) repairing and painting their timber windows and doors, or they paid a decorator to do it, then their windows and doors would get into this state. Yes, these are extreme examples, but remember when new build timber windows would start to rot within three years? You could push your finger through the paint and into the wood! And if you left it any longer than 3 years, then more often than not you would have a major and expensive job on your hands.
That's why homeowners welcomed uPVC with open arms. They loved uPVC because their windows and doors needed very little maintenance. They could then do what they want with their spare time, rather than have to worry about sorting out their rotten timber windows.
Maybe the anti-PVC propaganda in the national press is written by people who weren't around in the 1980s to experience those draughty, rotten, rattling timber windows and doors and never saw what happened when the wind, rain and snow gets at timber?
Wood is good, I love it, it's beautiful in furniture and floors, but unless you have the time, the inclination and the money, it's asking for trouble to buy wooden windows and doors. Installers, who show these photographs to homeowners who are too young to know or whose memories have failed, will be doing them a favour. uPVC maintained value in our homes and gave us back our much valued spare time. That's good value at any price!
Kind regards.
Martin Randall
Chairman, Crystal Direct
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