Double Glazing

One of our objectives for the renovations was to make the house warmer - so that we don't have to spend next winter sat on the sofa wearing thermals and woolly hats. But we wanted to make it warmer without making it more energy-thirsty so we've plumped for insulation in the roof, walls and floors, solar hot water and a woodburner. We'd ruled out double glazing though as too expensive for the time being, particularly given that the house has so many windows.


But the council building inspector decided that we needed to change a lot of our windows so that they were glazed with safety glass. So we took the plunge and went for double glazing across the whole house. When we went to the factory to choose handles (better ones that the handle that you can see below), our dozens of windows were stacked up all over the place. We can't wait to see them all in place soon. I just hope that we don't regret going the whole hog and paying for the additional ten-year witch proof coating.