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What style and colour of window would suit my house?

  • 22-02-2015 9:02pm
    #1
    Jane98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I'm at the stage where I need to choose window style and colour and am looking for people's opinions. The front of the house will be North facing and the house will be rendered and will have blue/black slates.

    Our architect is pushing us towards dark grey sliding sash aluclad windows but I'm not sure and I don't know if we should be going towards a less fussy window given that there are so many of them on the front of the house.


    Front_elevation North.jpg


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  • #2
    munstermolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭munstermolly


    Hi I have spent lots of time looking at windows for our new build too.. Alu clad seems to be the best window type on the market at present and look very well. Are your sash windows 1.6? Will they pass the BER and air tightness test? We were going to go with top opening and have them look like sash windows but are now going with tilt and turn with cross between glass for easier cleaning. We are also torn on colour between grey or cream wood effect pvc. Grey looks richer. What make and type of slate did you use. Also totally confused on heating system Geothermal. Air to Water or oil and solar panels.


  • #3
    MisseyB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 210 ✭✭MisseyB


    We went with pale warm grey aluclad windows, which match the colour of the exterior walls. I know this makes the window framing stand out but i wanted that on my house. You can see the windows here albeit before the external walls unpainted to match the window frame. We also went with floating mullions on windows so we can open the windows up completely and have an unobstructed view when required.

    https://designa2z.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/new-front-door/

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    Ps did you see the post on this forum about condensation inside aluclad window frames. Interesting to hear.


  • #4
    Jane98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Jane98


    munstermolly wrote: »
    Hi I have spent lots of time looking at windows for our new build too.. Alu clad seems to be the best window type on the market at present and look very well. Are your sash windows 1.6? Will they pass the BER and air tightness test? We were going to go with top opening and have them look like sash windows but are now going with tilt and turn with cross between glass for easier cleaning. We are also torn on colour between grey or cream wood effect pvc. Grey looks richer. What make and type of slate did you use. Also totally confused on heating system Geothermal. Air to Water or oil and solar panels.

    Hi Munstermolly,

    My project is mostly renovation plus an extension so I believe the BER and Air tightness test doesn't apply. We are using CAPCO blue/black slates.


  • #5
    Jane98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Jane98


    MisseyB wrote: »
    We went with pale warm grey aluclad windows, which match the colour of the exterior walls. I know this makes the window framing stand out but i wanted that on my house. You can see the windows here albeit before the external walls unpainted to match the window frame. We also went with floating mullions on windows so we can open the windows up completely and have an unobstructed view when required.

    https://designa2z.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/new-front-door/

    E

    Ps did you see the post on this forum about condensation inside aluclad window frames. Interesting to hear.

    Yes, I did see the forum about condensation and that does worry me.

    I went to -snip- showroom at the weekend and cam away more confused. I actually liked the Grey PVC sash windows in the showroom but they don't come in 2 tone colours and I don't think I could live with grey inside. There were no aluclad sash windows in the show room and I wonder would they not look great as I think they need a wood grain effect to look good.

    What exactly are floating mullions?


  • #6
    munstermolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭munstermolly


    I think -snip- do grey (wood effect) on the outside and ivory cream (wood effect) or white plain pvc on the inside. I have seen them and they look really nice.


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  • #7
    Jane98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Jane98


    munstermolly wrote: »
    I think -snip- do grey (wood effect) on the outside and ivory cream (wood effect) or white plain pvc on the inside. I have seen them and they look really nice.


    Hey Munstermolly, can you pm me the name of the company you mention above?


  • #8
    MisseyB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 210 ✭✭MisseyB


    Basically mullions are the upright sections of a window frame that divide the window. Floating mullions are attached to one of the openable windows, i.e. the move with the window when you open them. This allows you to open up the windows so you have no vertical structures when fully open.

    Hope that helps.

    E

    Ps Transoms are the horizontal sections of a window frame.


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