PVCu windows, white trunking etc.....

[securespark]

Everyone rants on about white trunking/capping conduit not allowed in an external situation because it is not UV stable etc....

My mother has had Croft Roplasto PVCu windows in her house since 1981 and they still look as clean and white (and unaffected by the elements) as they did 24 years ago.

Somebody else at MK technical told me their raw material for trunking differs not to the same raw material used for plastic windows.

So how come it is BAD???

AND - I have just visited Walton Hall near Warrington today, they have an NICEIC install which uses white MT outside. So there!

 

[Richardp]

I notice in all these tv programes about buying houses and doing up, make over etc that they go on about how bad it is to have PVCu windows, lowers the value of your property etc and yet down here is the southwest its used by estate agents to talk up the value of the property so is PVCu windows good or bad ?

 

[pipme]

Anything holding the glass in place that doesn't need Barry 'kin Bucknall every year sanding, drilling and painting all day .. gets my vote !! Had the old plastic windows since the 80's ... Quietly smiling as family builders 'died in the wool' for wood etc, have become plasticised and glad of it .. takes time but there is life after rotting wood ...

 

[masona]

I notice in all these tv programes about buying houses and doing up, make over etc that they go on about how bad it is to have PVCu windows, lowers the value of your property etc and yet down here is the southwest its used by estate agents to talk up the value of the property so is PVCu windows good or bad ?

I think it a bit like the weather and people mood changing all the time !
I understand number 1 choice for buying is now a garden which has taken over from kitchen but that might change tomorrow

 

[pipme]

A garden into which the lunatics will plant umpteen trees, with no thought of damage to property or peoples nerves ... Grrrr should be a licence required for tree planting ...... Hey, Part T come on Jonno little rotund one !!

 

[AdamW]

I notice in all these tv programes about buying houses and doing up, make over etc that they go on about how bad it is to have PVCu windows, lowers the value of your property etc and yet down here is the southwest its used by estate agents to talk up the value of the property so is PVCu windows good or bad ?

I guess it depends on what suits the property. If someone is buying a 15th century cottage they probably don't want obvious white PVC windows. It goes the other way, would you want a 1960s terrace with sash windows!

Round here they seem to use "laminate floors throughout" as a selling point, yet I have heard laminate referred to as the stone-cladding of the noughties.

 

[kendor]

you pays your money you takes your choice

 

[pipme]

Correction !! You sometimes pays yer money ... mostly do not get much choice !!
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[kendor]

you are correct pip you don't get a lot of choice these days but the subtle difference was in that i said you take your choice so if it doesn't come up to your aspirations then don't buy it.

 

[Richardp]

I know its changing the subject abit but there is a subtle connection, I was thinking about the way that folk put all these pebbles on their gardens these days, again from these tv garden makeover programmes, well one day some poor sods going to have to clear it all up and it,ll be mixed in with earth and muck, even concrete over the top of it and what are they going to be saying about us from this era ****ing bastards etc.

 

[pipme]

you are correct pip you don't get a lot of choice these days but the subtle difference was in that i said you take your choice so if it doesn't come up to your aspirations then don't buy it.

Ok for a bag of crisps after trying once !
What about pensions then ? You do not get a second chance with many important items and services, like life itself, not a rehearsal a one shot situation ... usually a rip off !!

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[securespark]

So is white OK outside, then?

 

[pipme]

Nah, politically incorrect colouring .. at best.