Sash restoration,
without the scaffolding.
Hotel sashes refurbished and reglazed from inside the room. The façade stays open, the room is back in service inside a week.
The problem.
For a hotel, window restoration is a revenue-protection job. Scaffolding hides the façade through your busiest season, closes a row of rooms for weeks, and draws a public-works permit. Replacement is worse — listed-building consent rarely permits it, and any room near the work is unusable for months.
We work the way the building was built — sash by sash, from inside the room.
Façade stays clean. One room at a time. Two to five days each.
The no-scaffolding method.
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Lift, not climb.
Each sash comes out of the box from inside the room. No exterior platforms. No tower scaffold. No street-furniture permit. The façade reads the same to a guest arriving at check-in.
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Restored where it doesn't disrupt.
Splice repairs, reglazing and paint happen in a quiet service room or back-of-house. Soft furnishings are sheeted; dust and noise stay inside the room being worked on.
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Back in the box, same week.
Sash refits, draught-proofing, glazing and final paint, then the room is ready for the next guest. Two to five days per room depending on scope — sequenced to your maintenance rota, not the other way around.
Why it works for hotels.
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No public-works permit.
Pavements and street access are untouched. No scaffold licence to obtain from the local authority, no public-liability paperwork to renew through the job.
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One room at a time.
We sequence around the maintenance rota — never a closed wing, never a row of dark windows on the front. The hotel keeps trading through the work.
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Listed-building friendly.
Every repair is reversible. Box frames, cills and glazing bars stay in situ — only what has failed is replaced. Conservation officers nearly always permit it where they refuse replacement.
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Vacuum reglazing keeps the line.
An 8 mm vacuum-insulated glass unit drops into the original 24 mm rebate. U-values land near 0.7 W/m²K — equal to a mid-range PVC replacement — without changing the sightlines a guest expects from a period hotel.
