Buckinghamshire· Supplied & fitted, or supplied only
Sliding sash windows in Amersham
Old Amersham in the valley and Amersham on the Hill above it are two different centuries. The window that suits one will look wrong on the other.
What is built in Amersham
Old Amersham runs along a single broad high street in the Misbourne valley and is one of the most complete historic streets in the county, with timber framed buildings behind later Georgian brick fronts and a great deal of listed and protected frontage. Amersham on the Hill is the Metroland town that grew around the station after the Metropolitan line arrived, and is almost entirely interwar: semi-detached and detached houses, bays to the ground floor, and divided upper panes as the standard pattern of the period.
What that means for your windows
In the valley the planning position comes before the specification, because a great deal of that frontage is listed and the local authority has a clear view of what belongs on it. On the hill the work is more straightforward and more common: interwar houses whose original timber has reached the end of its life, where the aim is to keep the window pattern that gives the street its character while getting an A plus rated window with no draught where the two sashes meet. We survey both ourselves before anything is ordered.
Two ways to buy in Amersham
Amersham is inside the area our own fitting teams cover, so you can have the whole job done by one company. You can also buy the windows on their own if you have a builder already, which is how most trade customers order.
- Supplied and fitted. We survey your openings before anything is ordered, so the sizes are our responsibility rather than yours. Our own teams fit, take the old windows away and make good the plaster line, and you get a FENSA certificate and an insurance-backed guarantee on completion.
- Supplied only. You send a schedule of sizes, choose the colour, glass, hardware and glazing bar layout, and the windows are delivered kerbside for your own fitter. Popular with builders, developers, self-builders and landlords. On a supply-only order the sizes are yours, because nobody from our side has seen the openings.
1.3 W/m²K as standard, 1.2 with enhanced glazing.
Secured by Design available, satisfying Document Q.
Equivalent to gusts of up to around 115mph.
Plus our workmanship where we have fitted them.
Questions we get asked in Amersham
Can you fit sash windows to a listed building in Old Amersham?
Listed building consent is a matter for the local authority and it has to be settled before the specification, not after. Tell us at survey and we will work to whatever they will accept, on glazing bar layout, sightlines and colour. What we will not do is quote you for a window and let you discover afterwards that it was never going to be approved.
What is the usual job on an Amersham on the Hill house?
Replacing tired interwar timber while keeping the pattern of divided panes that gives those streets their look. Georgian bars inside the sealed unit reproduce it with nothing on the outside to repaint, and both sashes tilt inwards so the upstairs windows can be cleaned from inside the room.
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Get a quote for Amersham
Send a photograph of the front of the property and roughly how many windows are involved, and we will tell you what is realistic before anyone comes out. For a supply-only order, send your schedule of sizes.
Call 0800 861 1450, message us on WhatsApp, or email info@sashwindowfactory.co.uk.