Sash and Case Window Restoration in Dennistoun

Dennistoun’s tenement windows

The area was developed largely from the 1860s through to the early 1900s, in blond and later red sandstone, with the classic Glasgow tenement plan: bay-fronted rooms to the street, plainer windows to the rear and the close stair. Most sashes are one-over-one plate glass, with earlier properties around the Duke Street end sometimes retaining more divided patterns.

Condition here varies more than in the West End, mainly because a lot of Dennistoun stock spent decades in the rental market where maintenance was minimal and quick fixes were common. We routinely find windows that have been screwed shut, cords cut and never replaced, sashes painted solid, and putty patched with filler. None of that is fatal. Underneath it, the box frames are usually intact and the timber is good. What looks like a window that needs replacing is very often a window that needs a day’s work.

Phased and single-window work

Not everyone can do a whole flat at once, and we do not price as though they should. We are happy to quote per window, start with the worst two or three, and come back for the rest later. Where you are working to a budget, the sensible order is usually the windows that are letting water in first, then the ones that will not open, then draught proofing across the whole flat — which is the cheapest single improvement per pound and the one most people notice most.

For close projects, where several owners want work at once, we quote the elevation as a package. Sharing platform or scaffold access across multiple flats brings the per-window cost down significantly, and it keeps the frontage consistent. If you are trying to get neighbours on board, we can provide a per-flat breakdown that people can look at individually.

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