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1stAssociated can provide help and advice with regard to building surveys, structural surveys, independent valuations, property surveys, structural reports, engineers reports, specific defects report, home buyers reports or any other property matters. As you can see from this article we use lots of sketches and photos in our reports as the feedback we have from our clients is that the sketches and photos help them understand the reports. We, of course, like to meet you at the property during the survey and we are more than happy to talk to you about the reports. Please free phone 0800 298 5424 for a friendly chat with one of our surveyors. Free phone 0800 298 5424GlassThe following article is on glass, glass is very important it helps you understand a building from its age recognising the glass (that is assuming the window is original) to if you see cracks in the glass the property may have movement. As Building Surveyors distortion of the windows and cracking in the glass is what we look for to see if there has been movement in the property. However we also appreciate that the glass may simply have cracked due to its age.
Cracks in my windowSo what do you do if you have cracks in your window? We would be more than happy if you wish to give us a call on free phone 0800 298 5424 for a friendly chat and we will try to advise you over the phone although often there is nothing like actually viewing the property due to the window in the glass needs to be looked at in the context of the whole building. What did the Romans ever do for us?GlassAs with most things the Romans seem to have done it first! They are even credited with removing the greenness from glass by adding manganese oxide. As with most things Roman we then seem to have forgotten about it for thousands of years.
At first it was only the very rich such as the church that had glass and we have even heard a rumour that the pin hinge that you have on some windows was so designed that when you moved house you could take the windows and glass with you however we cannot be certain if this is true or a myth! What is certainly true is that glass from years ago was uneven and had different thicknesses and globules within it as well as impurities and a general frostiness or cloudiness could not be seen through compared to modern thin, clear glass.
Broadsheet GlassThink of a Tudor buildingWe have used many different methods to produce glass over the years probably the first that you will recognise is a Tudor window with its leaded lights. It is very likely that if you see a Tudor building still intact it will have broadsheet glass. Broadsheet glass was said to be first manufactured in Sussex in 1226 and popular until the late 16 th century.
Cylinder glassCylinder glass was also a blown glass but it was cut and then unrolled to produce a flatter plate of glass.
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There is much debate as to how you spell the word sill or cill so you may find it spelt in different ways!
It is probably a myth that daylight robbery came about from a Window Tax as the Window Tax of 1696 when those with above ten windows in a house paid tax with amendments until in 1825 to eight windows far below the Oxford English Dictionary's first mention of the term in 1949.
However we have heard accounts of how the blocked up windows or blind windows that you sometimes see in older properties have resulted from the tax on light which in turn has been said to be termed daylight robbery which we think is a lovely story even if not true!
Interestingly we have also read that the Window Tax was helped to be abolished by the medical profession who argued that lack of windows tended to create dark, damp areas which were a source of disease and ill health.
In 1851 the Act was finally replaced by the House Tax which many would say was just as controversial.
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If you have a commercial property, be it leasehold or freehold, then you may wish to look at our Dilapidations Website at www.DilapsHelp.com and for Disputes go to our Disputes Help site www.DisputesHelp.com .
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