Building regs for second hand window units?

And if anyone in South Manchester wants mine - surplus for the same reason - they're welcome to take the three glass units and window frames. Sizes on request.

Dunno, but in England you'd have to get approval from the pen-pushers, and the old windows might not be up to it, especially if they haven't got the horrid "K" glass. OTOH if you did install these, it's unlikely that anything unfortunate would happen.

Seems a shame that pen pushers might try and stop me putting windows that are perfectly usable and clearly better than the existing ones.

Even in England/Wales, if you don't tell 'em, & no-one rats on you, with these windows you'd be OK.

I absolutely agree with you, too.

Make sure you don't replace old wooden sashes in a Victorian period property with uPVC. You will seriously reduce the value of the property. This is less an issue with a 1980s build and much of the period between.

Christian.

Thanks Christian. It is a 70's property and it is one of the last in the street not to have white uPVC fitted.

Agree with the sentiments entirely but am not sure you're right; in plenty of areas I think buyers would regard uPVC as a selling point in Victorian houses :-(

David

Perhaps in areas with a large surplus of both Victorian houses and scummy people.

Christian.

Well, your words not mine!! But pick any town (say) where the bulk of the housing stock consists of small Victorian terraces... an awful lot of buyers just see these as 'houses' full stop, with no consideration of their style or age (other than they are more likely to have maintenance and issues, draughts etc than a 'nice' new house. To them, uPVC windows = modern looking, maintenance-free, draught-free; given the choice between identical houses with and without uPVC, they'll pick the former any day.

David

Would the building regs thing be okay as any date stamps on the windows would be over 2 years old??