Crittall Metal Window Company

We had one left in the bay window in the early nineties but it too had seized up probably because the gutter down-pipe had been leaking over it before we moved in. All the glass panes were cracked due to rust twisting them but it was still solid! It didn't look as though it had been painted for years.

My Dad's old engineering works had metal windows but this was Victorian in origin and I don't know if they were Crittal or not. I do know that most of the glass panes that had to be replaced were all slightly different and the glass cutters hadn't marked them so my friend and I had to take out all the broken ones first and clean the frames and test fit all of them so we didn't end up with some that didn't fit. There were about fifty to do. The blue putty was easy to use though but took weeks to dry out for painting. We painted the windows a nice dark green and it looked very nice. The building is now a luxury dwelling!