- Using a rubber mallet and a strong pallet knife, remove the beading around the window. You might think they’re part of the frame, but they’re actually separate on the inside of the frame and can be taken out by using pallet knife to prize them out. Start with one of the longest beads first and leave the top bead until last.
- Give the glass a little tap to loosen it if it doesn’t come out straight away, then the whole unit should slide out easily. Just make sure it falls towards you and not back out onto the ground below!
- Clear any debris that has found its way into the frame with a brush. Add spacers at the bottom of the frame – these could be pieces of plastic.
- Get your new sealed unit (make sure you measure the glass before you buy one so you know which size to get) and carefully take it out of the packaging. Look for the British Standard mark – that shows you the bottom of the glass.
- Lift the glass into the frame, starting with the bottom first, and make sure that it fits square in the frame before taking the spacers out.
- Use a little washing up liquid to spread along the beads to make it easier when you slide them back into the frame. If they simply push and clip back in, you can use something like a block of wood to help you push them in correctly. Put them back in reverse order to how you took them out.
Edenbridge
Edenbridge is a community as well as civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. Its name stems from Old English Eadhelmsbrigge (significance "Eadhelm's Bridge"). It lies on the Kent/ Surrey approach the upper floodplain of the River Medway and also provides its name to the latter's tributary, the River Eden. The community has a population of around 9,000. Edenbridge is twinned with Mont-Saint-Aignan in France. The bypass that was constructed in the very early 2000s to soothe website traffic pressure on the old, slim High Street is called Mont St Aignan Way. There are two banks in the community, a post office beside the church as well as a number of major retail chains. In spite of being a relatively village, Edenbridge boasts its own hospital - The Edenbridge War Memorial Hospital. Originally a home health center built to care for soldiers returning from The First World War, a function constructed building was developed to the south of the community in 1931. With an Out Patients Department, Physical rehabilitation centers and a Minor Injuries Unit the hospital is a huge part of the fabric of the town. In recent times the medical facility has actually been confronted with closure lot of times, on each occasion it has actually been saved by neighborhood campaigners and townspeople, that see the health center as an important part of the area.
