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Window corner post cladding

  • 03-12-2024 03:40PM
    #1
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    With the recent apparent demise of a Dublin-based window & door supplier, I find myself having to complete a job myself, namely acquiring and installing a PVC cladding for a corner window. I've already covered the ~80mm steel post w/ 10mm Aerogel strips and sealed to the frame edges.
    Where can I get suitable cladding (RAL7016 Anthracite, textured if possible) and how exactly is it attached to the window frame/post? Is it supposed to overlap the window frame by a few mm and be glued to it, or should it have some sort of matching profile at the ends to mate with the window frame profile, or…

    A detail shot of a corner window installation with insulated steel corner post visible. Opening for window is in a white rendered wall with overhang


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  • #2
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    Some detail on what's under the insulation after a lot of tidying up the steel straps. Not too happy about the gaps but that's what was fitted.

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  • #3
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Hi, good job fitting that out with an aerogel based insulation.

    That seems to be a specific corner profile, so you'll need to find out who was the uPVC frame manufacturer. They will likely have corner profiles available through a supplier.

    Try email or call Camden in Dublin and see if it's their frame - then ask if they can recommend a fitter to install the missing pieces.

    https://www.camdengroup.co.uk/about-us/trade-centres

    If you don't have luck with Camden then let us know here.

    Post edited by 10-10-20 on


  • #4
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122917698#Comment_122917698

    Thanks for the reply. I was under the impression (from where I'm not entirely sure) that DK used a Polish supplier for their uPVC windows and Lithuanian supplier for aluclad doors. I think I might have saved some of the stickers from the frames and glazing units though so I'll go and have a root to see if I can find them. It's been over a year though so might have been disposed of since.

    That said, I don't think they took any special measures with these windows compared to the non-corner ones in the same order so I'd be surprised if there was a specific corner profile involved. There's a second corner window and it has the same post but the spacing between post and windows is 10-20 mm more than the one shown above, suggesting to me that some generic cover was intended, but certainly open to correction on this. Here's the other one, before tidying the straps (no idea why you'd put packers there, but that's what we got).

    1733241098209.jpg


  • #5
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Ok, well then no point in trying Camden.

    The packers are there to provide vertical alignment as that bay support pole was concreted into position so is probably just out of alignment, therefore the packers allow them to position the window where they need it.



  • #6
    DC999
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    Premier Windowboards Greenhills, Dublin do pvc trims. That's who our installer suggested. No idea what they are like.



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