Inherited a very large house in the country together with my siblings.
We are not allowed to sell the house as per clause in the will (long and shit story!).
At the moment we can rent it out, but for not very much as it needs considerable improvements.
As I understand the law for rented properties is changing this year, and we will need to make energy efficient improvements to the house to rent it out.
The house has aprox 20 odd large and small windows which are wooden, single glazed.
I understand I will need to replace these windows with wooden double glazing or secondary glazing.
I love the look of the existing wooden windows, (the house is very handsome from the outside) so in some ways I would prefer to have secondary glazing (which you could open).
But I don't know about the downsides and the cost difference between the two options. Needless to say, we are torn between making the improvements and spending money on a white elephant.
The next step is to obviously get in companies to quote, but I live 300 miles away from the property and don't want to be bamboozled by double glazing salespeople!
Anyone got any experience in the differences/benefits/costs of wooden double glazing verses secondary glazing?
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