a busybody neighbour perhaps...
Since I would expect the majority of people will know nothing about this legislation and its requirements, chances are they would in all good faith answer such questions assuming changing a window would not be included. Much will depend on how specific the solicitors are in phrasing the questions while conveyancing I guess.
Those who do know about such things are likely to keep schtum, or have a slight error in recollection of when the window was installed! ;-)
That wouldn't be necessary in my area. Our feu charter requires that we maintain coo-proof fencing and/or walls all around the property.
Sheila
But if it's a Highland Coo, this should not be a problem.
.andy
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frame. I was at a window factory on Friday and had a good look at the extrusions delivered from one of the big profile manufacturers. On each 8m length of plastic, the date was only printed once - even if you ended up with a window showing this, it wipes off with white spirit (and what surveyor is going to take out your sealed units anyway?)
As for the sealed units having dates printed on the spacer bars, some do some don't. The particular fabricator I was at was happy to leave the dates off, if required for 'neatness'.
But seeing as you are allowed to replace sealed units without regs approval - who's to say that you're not just an energy conscious citizen who changed all his units to K glass as you heard it was good on the TV?
Alex
Wherebouts are you, Sheila?
Mary
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The questionnaire that the vendor has to complete has (on the couple I've seen anyway) a very specific question on replacement windows, and it has been reported that most/all new d.g. units have the date inside them. You could claim that it was a 2002 window but during 2004 the boy next door broke all three panes with his cricket balls ....
We do it every day. I suppose Spouse had a fall arrest protection system when picking apples yesterday - but would H&SE accept that tree branches were such a system? Or the banister on our staircase ... ? I can see a window cleaner up a ladder on a neighbour's house as I type ...
Mary
The north coast of Sutherland.
Sheila
What it comes down to is that you can't have it both ways: if you're selling without paperwork you have to say that the windows were done pre-2003 and you don't have any documents or guarantee ... which may or may not affect the buyer's enthusiasm/offer.
Sealed units are often (always?) date stamped so there can be little argument.
MBQ
Of you could be "up front" and say they were DIYed in 2002+n to all the required standards (as inspecting them will show), but there is no paperwork or BCO approval. You have no intention of getting it retrospectively, so, if you like the house, stop making a fuss over nothing and buy the sodding thing anyway!
(all assuming it is still a sellers market!)
;-)
You can replace a sealed unit and still not be affected by the regs IIUC. It is only replacement of the whole window that counts.
Much of this discussion also depends on how many windows you are replacing. If you are replacing one small window at a total cost of under 100 quid, then you could argue that paying as much again to have a BCO look at it is a large unnecesary expense. If you are paying several thousand for a whole house full of windows then the cost of the BCO is not as significant.
Oh. We're going up to Jill's soon but I think Sutherland's too far from Oban to drop in on you ... another time perhaps.
Mary
Do you mean the frame?
What if you make your own frames? It's what we've always done.
Mary
In effect yes. You can replace the glass, and or repair a frame without regs requirement.
I would expect you would need to comply, unless you can count the work as a repair of an existing one....
(i.e. I have repaird the existing frame by replacing all the wood and all the fixings ;-)
Oban, my favourite single malt ;-)
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That applies to Heatlth and Safety at work. Not to DIY.
When will you be there? I expect to be with family in Edinburgh until the middle of the month.
Sheila
Mine's Ardbeg.
Mary
I'll be at the Batle of Bannockburn on 18/19 September, go to Jill's on
20th, probably for a week.Mary
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