Renovation & heritage buildings
Insulate like new, without betraying the façade
In an old building, every detail counts. We reproduce your windows identically: the same mouldings, the same glazing bars, the same hardware, with today’s airtightness and insulation. For character homes, historic town centres and listed buildings.
- Identically moulded profiles
- Putty glazing
- Period hardware
1 · Our heritage system
The look of the past, the technology of today
A 78 mm wood system, designed after old windows: mouldings, weatherboards, astragals and glazing bars reproduced to measure, in a classic version or with putty glazing.
Before / after: the shutters, proportions and glazing bars are kept, only the comfort changes.
Heritage
In section
Moulded profile
Putty glazing
In section
Weatherboard
The system variants
Heritage
The moulded profiles of an old window, with modern insulating glass held by a moulded glazing bead.
- System
- wood 78 mm
- Wood
- spruce, pine, larch, oak, meranti
- Glazing
- double or triple insulating glass
- Seals
- perimeter seal
Heritage with putty glazing
The glass set in putty, as in the past: the authentic look required for listed buildings.
- System
- wood 78 mm
- Glass fitting
- putty glazing, no visible glazing bead
- Glazing
- insulating, period look
Period options
Every detail to respect the original façade.
- Weatherboard
- in wood, other shapes on request
- Astragal
- cover strip with various mouldings
- Glazing bars
- made to measure, various mouldings
- Hardware
- espagnolettes, cremone bolts, hinges with vase or button finials
2 · Craftsmanship
Every detail, faithfully reproduced
Period hardware
Espagnolettes, surface-mounted cremone bolts and hinges with vase or button finials, in brass or iron.
Putty glazing
The glass is sealed with putty, without a visible glazing bead, as on the original windows.
Selected solid wood
Solid wood stiles machined and assembled in our workshops.
Moulded profiles
Mouldings, astragals and weatherboards reproduced from the existing ones.
3 · Our approach
From survey to installation, respecting what is already there
Our approach
- On-site surveyMeasurements, profiles and details of the existing windows, backed up with photos.
- Documents for the authoritiesPlans and sections for the municipality or the heritage conservation office.
- Faithful manufacturingProfiles, mouldings and colours reproduced from the original.
Traditional colours
- Stains and paintsRemmers colours and Rubio creams, or a colour matched to a sample.
- OilsFor a natural wood look that develops a patina over time.
- Full colour rangeSee our page Wooden windows.
Projects
A few historic renovations
