The older Teversham houses that keep their sashes
Historic England lists eight buildings in the parish, with Teversham Hall and Manor Farmhouse among the Grade II entries. Listed homes and the handful of other pre-1900 properties are where original timber sash and case windows survive. On a listed house, check with the council before changing window colours or replacing original glass or timber.
Our part is the decorative work: scraping back loose paint, sanding with Mirka dust-free sanders to keep old paint dust out of the house, filling open joints, priming bare wood and repainting. Rotten timber or broken cords go to our carpenter first, so you still deal with one company.
Keeping sashes sliding after painting
Paint building up in the runners is the usual reason sashes stick. We work each sash up and down during the job, keep paint thin on the sliding faces, and run a neat line onto the glass to seal the putty. Eggshell or satin suits period timber.
If your home has timber casements rather than sashes, those are painted as part of our exterior house painting work.
Teversham at a glance
- 8 milesby road from our Landbeach base, about 11 minutesOSRM routing
- 2%of properties were built before 1919VOA Council Tax stock
- 8listed buildingsHistoric England
- 1conservation arealocal council
- 19%are terracedCensus 2021
- 6%date from 1919 to 1939VOA Council Tax stock
How we approach sash window restoration
For an older Teversham window we check each one for flaking paint, open joints, loose putty and soft timber. Loose paint is scraped and dust-free sanded, cracks filled, bare wood primed, and sills and bottom rails sealed with extra care. Our carpenter deals with rot or cords first. We finish in eggshell or satin and ease every sash before leaving. The full method, products and FAQs are on our sash window restoration page.