Glazing, Windows and Doors
Glazing Systems
Timber framed buildings are energy efficient and comfortable. Thoughtful glazing design enhances light and offers stunning views. With 35 years of experience, we expertly integrate glazing into timber structures, providing joinery for fittings and fixtures.
Understanding the challenges of glazing timber is essential, as green oak moves, shrinks, twists, and splits in response to its environment. Our experienced carpenters ensure successful and impressive glazing despite these changes.
Standard oak window frames are available in double and triple glazing, with bespoke options for windows, panels, and doors based on design and budget. We also offer solutions for managing solar gain or glare.
Customers often praise our glazing for creating 'frameless' windows, increasing window size and maximizing views. Extensive glazing brings the outdoors inside, creating large picture frames of the surroundings. These windows can be full height, on a dwarf wall, or shaped into gables, resulting in bright, airy spaces.
A modern oak frame house is more efficient and comfortable than an older house, often exceeding current building regulations.
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Direct Glazing
Direct Glazing is a technique where we clad the oak frame with double glazed units and oak ‘Coverboards,’ as illustrated in the annotated photo on the following page. Our specialist direct glazing system is designed to be flexible enough to accommodate the natural movement of the green oak frame.
This method is an excellent way to showcase the beauty of the internal oak frame on the exterior of the building, as the oak coverboards perfectly align with the lines of the structural green oak frame. Together, the glazing and oak coverboards protect the green oak frame from the elements, ensuring it remains warm, dry, and well-preserved.
When opening units are needed, we install custom Joinery Units—individual window and door units set within the oak frame. These Joinery Units typically feature timber windows and doors with aluminium cladding, combining the strength and insulating properties of timber with the low-maintenance durability of aluminium for long-lasting performance.
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Joinery Glazing
Joinery Screen Glazing involves fixing multiple joinery units together to create continuous glazed screens. These seamless glazed screens can extend past the structural green oak posts and are typically set away from the oak frame to allow for easy glass cleaning. Since the joinery units do not directly touch the oak, they do not require installation by specialist green oak glaziers, and oak coverboards used in direct glazing are not necessary. As a result, joinery screen glazing can be a more cost-effective solution compared to direct glazing.
For larger joinery screens that feature multiple glazing panels stacked vertically, conventional joinery window units are often unsuitable. In such cases, advanced Curtain Glazing systems are employed, providing a high-tech solution for larger glazed screens.
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