High quality windows, doors and conservatories from The Green Window Company Home of Double-Glazing in Devon Thank you for visiting our website. High quality double-glazing in Exmouth, Exeter and surrounding Devon.From listed buildings, to the latest ultra modern design, we have the experience and products to enhance your home and turn your dreams into a reality.We have over 18 years experience of installing high quality PVC, timber, Aluminium, steel and timber composite double-glazed windows, doors and conservatories. We realise that a company is only as good as its last job, so we pride ourselves on quality products and first class customer care at all times.Being a family run business we don't have salesmen. No high pressure tactics, no false discounts, no sales gimmicks... just fixed quotes at our best possible price.For a free window, door or conservatory quotation, contact us today. "Thank you very much for the excellent workmanship that has gone into the installation of our conservatory.

We both think it’s of the highest standard, being spacious, warm and comfortable.You have ticked all the boxes from start to finish..."With a wide variety of doors and windows available, you’ll be spoiled for choice at B&Q. We have a range of interior and exterior doors, as well as stylish windows to make the most out of your home. Take a look at our huge selection of window and door handles to suit any style and decorate your home, your way. Don’t forget to store your car safely with our collection of garage doors, made to order for your convenience at B&Q.This dwelling at Sigford is a 500 year old hall house which fell into complete dereliction at the end of the nineteenth century. For around 50 years it stood empty, until around 1930 it was converted into a cow barn, with a tin roof. It was rediscovered around 2002 when the farmer that owned it applied to convert it into a house. The work was not carried out until Apse architects became involved. The brief was not only to restore the listed building to full use as a dwelling but also to be 'ecologically sound' in its approach.

Apse architects held training workshops, offering paid work experience with students from the Plymouth University MSc Architecture course. They were employed over consecutive summers, and used this project to explore the very challenging issue of how to combine top quality conservation practice with a strong green agenda. The key to this approach was to understand that the original building was made entirely by hand, using the most local materials available, and any high-carbon materials (glass and lime, for example) were expensive, so used in minimal quantities. So many buildings today are simply an assemblage of factory produced materials, that getting back to using our hands, and our hearts, was a joy. At the start, the building was on the edge of collapse, and over six tonnes of hand-mixed clay mortar was pressed into the open joints in the walls. Much of the clay had to be dug from the stream bed on site. It was mixed with about 1 part lime to 10 parts clay and sand.

This closely matched the original mortar. In order to match the lime, a kiln was built in the back garden and fired local limestone. All commercial lime is again factory produced and far too finely sieved to be a match for the coarse grainy limes available in the C14th (which would probably have also been produced on site).iron entry doors in phoenix Internally the walls have been lined with 50mm of clay plaster. cabinet doors edmonton abThe backing layers have as much straw in as they can accommodate, in order to provide some insulation value. french door refrigerator 28 inches deepThis material has worked extremely well, and there are no signs of damp, even where the internal wall is over 1.5m below ground level.internal glazed door pairs

Historic timbers were carefully cleaned and repaired, and new timbers were cut from local woods and worked green by hand, using side axes, adzes and drawer knives. Floorboards were replaced using wide oak planks - from a tree cut by the previous owner. The first floor is almost unique in that each board runs with the joists, not across, and forms a single panel, with no exposed joints beneath - a sign of the high status that this house had back in its day. barn doors for led par cans(note that the main floor was inserted in the seventeenth century, as the original hall would have been open to the roof to allow the smoke out from the central fireplace).outdoor patio furniture wilmington nc Thatching wheat grown organically on site is ready for combing and threshing. Next summer should see the completion of this fantastic project.

The house is nestled in the Dartmoor countryside and at first site looks like an old barn, which is exactly what it was used for after it was abandoned as a dwelling. But a closer look reveals Medieval stonework and a pattern of openings more typical of a domestic building. Most of the rear wall of the building was rebuilt when the tin roof was put on. There is evidence of former windows and a rear door to the cross passage. It is hoped that some rear openings can be reinstated to provide more natural light, natural ventilation and means of escape (in case of fire). Inside, the house is remarkable. It has been practically untouched since the eighteenth century. There has been some decay, but most features have been preserved with care. The large central fireplace has a stone bread oven still intact, but with no door. The fireplace and flagstone floor are possibly fifteenth century. Before the chimney was built, the fire would have been an open hearth in the middle of the floor.