Hertfordshire· Supplied & fitted, or supplied only
Sliding sash windows in Rickmansworth
Where three river valleys meet and the Metropolitan line arrives, which is most of the story of the housing here.
What is built in Rickmansworth
Rickmansworth has an older town centre with buildings of some age around the church and the high street, and the canal and the Chess, Colne and Gade valleys converging just below it. The larger part of the town, though, is Metroland, developed hard between the wars around the station, with substantial semi-detached and detached houses laid out in avenues, bays to the ground floor and divided upper panes as the standard window pattern.
What that means for your windows
Interwar Metroland is the dominant job here and the thing to get right is the pattern rather than the product. Those houses share a window grammar street by street, and a replacement that fits plain glass where divided panes were breaks the rhythm of the whole avenue. The valleys also matter practically: properties low in the Colne or Gade valley get damp and driven rain that houses on the ridge do not, and the water tightness figures are worth reading in that case.
Two ways to buy in Rickmansworth
Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth
Why does the divided pane pattern matter so much on these houses?
Because interwar avenues were built as a set and the eye reads them as one. The divided upper pane over a clear lower one repeats along the street, so a house that drops it is visible from a long way off. Reproducing it costs little and it is the difference between a replacement that settles into the street and one that does not.
Do you work on properties low in the valley near the water?
Yes. On a low lying property the relevant figures are water tightness at Class 7A at 300 Pa and air permeability at Class 4 at 600 Pa, with a colour matched weather bar mechanically joined to the bottom sash to throw water clear of the sill.
Nearby
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Get a quote for Rickmansworth
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.