Double glazing in conservation area

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We’re in a reasonably relaxed conservation area. Many of the houses have upvc windows and many opt for the solid wood triple glazed option.

For reasons to do with cost and ease of maintenance, I’m keen to explore good quality wood grain upvc. Does anyone have any experience or recommendations? Has anyone gone with supply only?

They look awful.

IMO, go for proper wood with single glaze, then add secondary magnetic glazing

I wouldn't have secondary glazing, we have some and it’s a pain to clean behind and doesn’t look great. I think the upvc sliding sash windows can look very good, go a bit more expensive and they can look very good indeed.

we have, expensively, gone for wood double glazing to replace our single glazed casement windows. It meant we could retain some original moulded features in the frames and window surrounds. Still wait For them to go in, but it was £20k compared to £9k to £13k we were quoted for upvc.

That is my thinking @gardenquestion22
i was always wedded to the idea of timber triple glazed but I’ve seen such good upvc more recently I am loathe to pay a huge premium for wood and then commit to endless maintenance.

I think it depends on your style & age of house more than anything. My aunt is in a conservation area but in a newish house. She had truly awful rotten wood and replaced it with good dark brown wood grain effect UPVC and it looks absolutely fine. Obviously not as lovely as wood, but the other benefits have far outweighed that.

Check with your council planning office or see if they have information online about your conservation area and any guidelines or restrictions or requirements for replacing windows.

Just because someone on here says they have nice wood grain effect uPVC windows doesn't mean your council will be ok with it.