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:: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 ::
A waste of energy telegraph.co.uk
The fact that modern houses use large amounts of non-renewable energy in their construction might be justifiable if they lasted as long as their Victorian predecessors. But the evidence is that recently built homes can start to deteriorate quite quickly.
Among the first items to need repair or replacement are windows. According to Jay Webb, of Fenestration Associates, a collective of window and glazing surveyors: 'Victorian sliding sash windows were built from chunky sections of quality, seasoned timber. They were set back from the face of the brickwork, and protected from the elements by overhanging corbels and projecting arches.------------------------------------------- posted 7:07 PM :: reference link ::
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