Morning. Can anyone tell me if the joins on this bay window corner are what should be expected please? They are telling me it is. This is the second time they have done the window board and IMO they seem to be incapable of getting it right. All the other work has been OK. Thanks
by algoodz
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That looks shite.
I could do better & I have no arms
Suddenly I feel my first DIY attempt at a window board in my bathroom was actually quite good going!
This is properly shit work
Edit, judging by the amount of sealer going on in the second pic, you need to check the underside of the board too just in case there are any massive gaps under there!
Not installed any personally but worked in windows manufacturing for a long time and that’s just Shiite, most probably whoever surveyed the bay got all of the angles / measurements wrong so once the fitter tried to install had to make some slight but very bad adjustments to the sill to make it fit
Why have they got silicone all over the walls?
I honestly thought at first glance it was a toilet roll holder someone had plastered over.
Had windows done last year by a well cheap pair. Like, a quarter of the price of safestyle.
And it was 1000 times better than this workmanship.
Don’t pay until it looks half decent. That’s not normal
Looks like you’ve been done
Not a window fitter but I have fitted them before,
That is shite!
Unacceptable. Is it council by any chance? Whoever has done it has no idea.
I would be too embarrassed to walk off a job leaving that
What finish is on it?
There’s a couple of things to unpack here, first your fitters don’t understand geometry – the cut on the end piece should have been cut at an angle (90 + half the angle return for the bay), not 90 degrees to the adjacent wall.
Secondly, what’s with all the silicone everywhere?
Name and shame, we had a similarly dreadful experience with a company last year…
This is absolute dog shit.
As the creator of a video that was posted here last week (and may have inspired a column in the Guardian) would put it, what absolute winklespanner did this?
that’s so bad. I’ve fitted windows before only as a labourer but I’d be confident to fit me own kind of thing.
Why is the window board joined there? Looks like it’ll break off easy. Even without a bespoke cut the joint looks awful both sides. Maybe they do get joined like this but they line up properly and you don’t notice it?
My window sill ([photo](https://i.imgur.com/h9oYuC2.jpg)) has both boards cut with a 45 degree mitre. To get the board joins to match the mitre angles must be equal. The mitre is also cut away from the corner so that the short section of sill on the internal wall does not stick out too far to hinder the curtains. I cut all this myself. I am not a professional but you can see what a professional should be aiming to provide you.
Does your window guy rock up to work on a horse by any chance? Or like just do windows on the side during the downtime on the ranch?
Also silicone on the walls like that is really bad as you can’t paint it properly.
They haven’t been filled or sanded at all, that or the workman isn’t a carpenter and can’t marry up the angles well. They look in tolerance, just note very neat.
I was only looking at pic 2. Christ.. pic 1, whoever did that needs putting down.
Haha why is it protruding so much? That’s outrageous
Did you hire them off one of those day-glow signs cable-tied to traffic lights? 😅
Garbage
I spy a . . FOOTBALLLL
Never mind. Once the curtains are up, you’ll never see those sill ends again!
Honestly more concerned with the mastic work
It’s a weird window position to have the walls on either side of the window angling out away from the house. The product is not really designed to be used in this fashion. To get it done right would require a carpenter with a router, and I doubt the window fitters have either of those two things. Personally I blame the salesman in these situations for not notifying you that it’s going to look weird with the generic install and that you’d need to personally arrange a carpenter to come do it properly.
The Tunamelts are back again.
Absolutely shocking.
Was it fitted windows too or just the sill? Did they provide a FENSA cert?
Just booked in for new windows myself in coming weeks so been worrying about this, I only took quotes from those providing a FENSA cert in the hope that will weed out the cowboys.
*tsk sucks air through teeth*
“You’ve ‘ad the cowboys in ‘ere.”
I’m not a glazer, but my father in law owns a window and conservatory company. No, this is not an acceptable standard.
To quote him ‘that must have been done by the boy late friday’.
I don’t understand? What have these end bits, badly attached to the windowsill, got to do with double glazing?
Can sand it down then give it a lick of gloss
Was that done by Everest by any chance?
We had them do our windows 7 years ago and they still haven’t replaced one window that failed the FENSA check. They used fascia boards for one of the windowsills. Multiple windows had to be replaced because they cracked or scratched them, and some were on the wrong way.
Absolute nightmare.
Very old house from the look of the walls.
Nothing square.
Look at the line from the end of the wall above and below the sill.
Not straight.
Doesn’t look great OP, but sometimes it’s can be nearly impossible to get right in old places.
Doing angles with dura board is always a pia. Usually they will use an angle jointer. But they don’t look much better. This looks like they’ve gut the angle and then glued a square bit on. Meaning the bull nose doesn’t match up.