Painting wooden double-hung windows-the kind with two vertically sliding halves known as sashes-is tedious because there are so many components. But the task can be easier and less likely to leave ...

If your house has old, double-hung wood windows, chances are some of them don’t operate anymore. Or at least don’t operate well. Double sashes have a surprising number of parts, and when something ...

‘Windows are the eyes of a building – if you change them, you completely alter the look of it,” says Ivan Crowe, one of Ireland’s leading specialists in making and restoring timber sash windows in ...

There is something about a sash window, isn’t there? The gentle squeak and heave as you lift it up, the rush of air that greets you. ‘For some reason, houses with them feel like a proper home,’ says a ...