Go touch an old aluminium window frame around 2 pm in June. It’s hot. That heat is walking straight into your room, and your AC spends all day fighting it. Most people blame the cooling or the power company. Usually the leak is the windows. That’s the reason so many Tricity homes are switching to UPVC.
It isn’t a trend thing. The rooms stay cool, the bills come down,...
The majority of people buy UPVC windows, slide them shut, and never think about them again. They're built to be easy. But "easy" isn't the same as "ignore forever". A bit of dirt in the tracks, a seal that's gone hard, a hinge nobody oiled in five years... small things like this are what turn a 30-year window into a 10-year headache.
The fix is barely any effort. Ten minutes here and...