- 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.
Wingate
Wingate is a village in County Durham, England. Wingate is a former pit town with a mixture of 19th-century, post-war, and more recent housing developments. It was initially inhabited by around 30 farmers before 1839 when coal was discovered. It is located in the East of County Durham, 3 miles south west of Peterlee, and seven miles north west of Hartlepool. Similar to the majority of towns in the location, it grew rapidly with the growth of coal-mining in the region. The name Wingate is said to stem from the Anglo-Saxon words windig (gusty) as well as geat (roadway) definition windy road. Like all County Durham towns, citizens are known to speak the pitmatic language although brand-new housing developments has seen a sharp boost in the town's population. A selecting ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north eastern to Peterlee and also has an overall population, taken at the 2011 census, of 10,302.
