Encapsulated stained glass - Reinstating bay window with stained glass

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Our house has a bay which had wooden double glazing put in about twenty years ago that’s now got one window failing. There’s no stained glass and they look pretty awful.

Our looks awful, all the neighbours look like this.

We’d like to get some stained glass made and then get encapsulated double glazing. We’re not keen on the double glazing you get in upvc.

Anyone done this or got any ideas of cost or if it’s got drawbacks?

I really want to find somewhere that will encapsulate leaded lights. I have some beautiful ones on my house but the windows really need replacing. I’ve not found anywhere local through my idle googling yet.

We only have one company locally I think. I just wanted to get an idea of it was going to be 1000s or 10,000!,

We got two large bay windows replaced completely including stained glass panels at the top and it came to £15k. I think the stained glass panels (x10) were a relatively small part of this.

That helps thank you....

We've had original stained glass panels taken out, cleaned and encapsulated units and it was around £120 per panel. Our bay looks v similar to the one in the photo. We're in Yorkshire though and I thought our guy was really good value so may be more expensive elsewhere. One problem we had though is that the encapsulated units are quite deep when finished and so the existing wooden surrounds (sashes) were too shallow to fit the new triple glazed units. This was partly due to the style of the window so may not apply to you. We ended up having new sashes made and fitted which was more expensive than the glass, but they do look good and avoids the problems with condensation we had before when the bottom panes were double glazed and the stained glass units weren't.

Hi - Appreciate its been a while since you posted this message, but we are thinking of getting some original stained glass encapsulated and installed in new timber frames.

How have yours held up?

Cheers,

Ed