Joiner
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Never seen the like before. The sheer scale of the problem was gobsmacking.
The company was Dawley Glass of Telford. They'd been around for yonks and went belly-up a while back. They were a replacement window company, primarily upvc but (as here) doing timber windows as well, and used to have a good reputation for quality and reliability. Wonder when the rot set in? Probably when they started cutting corners to survive. It's a hell of a competitive business to be in, but no excuse for this sort of crap.
44mm section, 16mm units with a good 14mm for bead, but they'd PUTTIED the units in, which was lunacy. It's a severe exposure elevation and you can see where the putty has cracked.
I'll replace them all with gas-filled units and bead them in on sealant. There's at least two days work for two men there, though given the difficult access over the conservatory roof we're probably talking more like five man-days.
So much for cutting corners!
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