The Old Wooden Sash Window Renewed With a Twist

Do you remember when the streets of the United Kingdom were made up of row upon row of neat little houses, all with their own wooden sash window opening out onto a nice little garden? Marvin Architectural, a window and door company from based in Ireland, clearly does. It has just released a brand new, modern version of the classic sash, designed to bring 21st century performance and energy saving to early 20th century looks and quality.

The wooden sash was always the high point of glazier’s architecture. There is nothing so smart, so good looking, as a sash window. It gives more light and more air and space and when you open it, it really lets the outside in. The wooden sash window is designed to be thrown up to get all that good spring time smell and cleansing fresh air into a house that has been battened down against the winter: to stay open all day in the summer; and to offer plenty of bright vistas in autumn and winter, through generous panes of top quality glass.

In the old days, of course, that glass was as inefficient as it was expansive. It is, after all, all very well having lots of glass so your home has a nice sparkling frontage and you have plenty of views from inside. But if that glass is leaking heat and sound by the second, then you are in for a cold and noisy winter. The modern wooden sash window is glazed as standard with low emissivity, high performance double panes, which prevent heat transfer from in to out, or from out to in, and which also have exemplary noise buffering qualities. Now you can take in all those gorgeous vistas and still know that the heating bill is staying nice and low, and that the neighbours will not be able to hear your kids playing their latest computer game at about ninety million decibels.

The modern wooden sash window is available in three basic styles, each one of which has been designed specifically to make sure that almost every kind of house and home is accounted for. At the entry level, we find the basic wooden sash, which has been built to fit into pretty much any normal window opening with a minimum of disruption and very little extra work. That means that any home can have new sash windows fitted without a major piece of construction work being commissioned.

Next up is the mid range wooden sash window. The mid range window has a generous jamb and will look very stylish in most mid range to lower high end houses. It is clad externally with treated aluminium that looks like milled wood: very stylish indeed.

The highest “level” of wooden sash comes as a bespoke fitted, super sized window with four marvellously silent block and tackle pulleys operating the opening and closing mechanisms. This type of sash is wonderful for fitting in larger homes and mansions.

So the wooden sash window is back – and looking as good as it always did. This time, though, it retains heat and blocks off noise, making it the ideal solution for pretty much every glazing need.