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Office window glare is usually fixed in three steps. Move the screen so it does not face or back onto the window. Add adjustable blinds that cut direct sun without ...

Critical locations are the places in a building where someone is most likely to walk, fall or knock into glass. In these spots, UK building rules expect the glass to ...

If a door contains glass, or sits right beside glass, the glass almost certainly has to be safety glazing. In England, Approved Document K says glass in a door leaf, ...

If you let a home in the UK, you are almost always the one responsible for repairing its windows and glazing. In England and Scotland the law treats windows as ...

Fitting a new window pane usually takes a few hours at most. The wait before that is often longer. A single-glazed pane can be cut and fitted in under an ...

Patio door draughts usually come from one of four places: worn seals, a door that has dropped out of alignment, a failed sealed glass unit, or gaps around the frame ...

If your VELUX roof window has misted glass, a cracked pane or a draughty, noisy feel, you can often upgrade the sealed glass unit without replacing the whole window. That ...

The best shopfront glass for security is laminated glass, ideally fitted into a sound frame and backed by strong door hardware. Toughened glass is a safety glass, so it protects ...

Rain sounds loud in a conservatory because the roof is thin and light, so each drop makes it vibrate like a drum skin. The fix depends on what is overhead: ...

An acoustic glass upgrade means swapping the glass in your existing windows for laminated glass with a sound-damping layer, so traffic, voices and machinery are less audible indoors. In most ...