A year ago, the Buncefield explosion rattled the windows. To mark the anniversary, one of them decided to end it all and plunge to a horrible death on the driveway below. A loud crack at about 11.15 last night, followed a moment later by a distant tinkle. The pane had just snapped. Fortunately three quarters of it are still in situ, including the slightly dodgy bit we had always pegged as most likely to be the first to go. Strange.
Ever tried picking up bits of glass lying on dark tarmac by torchlight with gardening gloves?
Now, what do you do when you have a broken pane of glass in a window that goes up and down, but doesn't swing in or out, and it's thirty feet up off the ground, impossible to repair without scaffolding which will cost a lot of money? Exactly. You plug the hole and wait until the good weather next year when we were getting the frames restored anyway. Like all flaws with windows, we have relabelled our new-look not-very-see-through cardboard window pane as a feature.
You could replace the cardboard with sellotaped together bits of coloured cellophane (which can be gathered by eating lots of Quality Street), to create a festive stained glass-effect feature for the Christmas period?
ReplyDeleteDoes the voice of experience speak? The stained glass option has been mooted but I especially like the suggested method of acquiring materials. Will run it past the committee.
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