Just removed a rotten old sash window and replaced it with a new UPVC Double Glazed window. I've got about a 10mm gap around the edge of the window which blows a gail. What is the best way to seal this gap...foam or silicon. I've always used expanding foam in the past but someone has just told me not to. Can anyone advise.
Plastic trim. Probably in your case, 15mm quadrant. Stick to the brickwork with silicon, then bead down the window/trim meeting with silicon or white upvc glue/sealer/gap-filler. Mr. HandyAndy - really
PE Backfill Material is a Polyethylene Foam and is what should be used, not fixing foam. You should be able to pick up a box from your local UPVC trade counter. Expect to pay around £15 (ex) for 100 metres.
"silicon and plastic trims slapped on everywhere" a new box and sash replacement would have been more aesthetically pleasing.
£75 an internal door, yes also in 2007 and beyond you can still fit timber box sash windows and casements. they add a great deal of value to houses. also very popular i fitted wooden windows and doors for over two years - www.spstimberwindows.co.uk evo nut
The op has already got a UPVC window faffing on about timber is pedantic. BTW I agree that a like for like timber replacement or repair would have been better but it is not remotely relevant to the original question.
to tell the"op" to fire in expanding foam around the gaps of his plastic window would be relevant and not pedantic.
***. Window trims are designed to trim windows that are too small for the friggin hole. End of. Mr. HandyAndy - really
whilst replastering rooms we increasingly come upon plastic "trims" some of them 150mm. wide,stuck on to walls around plastic windows,we rip these pretend architraves off and make good around the opening with bricks and mortar.
I hope you properly observe the need for damp course between the outer and inner brickwork. Mr. HandyAndy - really
you are being pedantic sir, when you were fitting plastic windows at a tenner a time did you worry about damp?
you are being pedantic sir, when you were fitting plastic windows at a tenner a time did you worry about damp? Always. Even when a wood block was needed for fixing through window into the cavity, one side of the block(the outer) had a dpc attached. A few seconds work. Never a cowboy will be. Mr. HandyAndy - really