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No – Ayrton specialises in full replacement of windows and doors only.
The lead time varies depending on the product you select, as well as the scale and complexity of your project. Since everything we manufacture is custom-made and tailored to your specifications, you can typically expect a lead time of 12-14 weeks from paying your deposit. Our sales team will provide specific advice based on your individual requirements.
Ayrton specialises exclusively in timber, offering unmatched expertise in replicating traditional details. We do not work with other materials like uPVC, aluminium, or Crittall. Our fitters are highly skilled joiners, ensuring that timber, the most durable and authentic choice for London property windows and doors, is used throughout our projects.
Our factory has the ability to replicate existing stained glass design or we can refurbish (this is more expensive). Our stained glass is encapsulated between a double-glazed unit to protect it long into the future from hairline fractures.
The material spec is just one element – what is more important is doing your research and speaking with a company that puts emphasis into the customer journey.
You can be assured that if there is a premium to pay to choose Ayrton, you will get the value back not only in seeing your windows or doors installed, but also in having a smooth process through design, planning and installation, with years of reliable aftercare too. We so often encounter clients who have “gone cheaper” and regretted this choice, as within as sometimes as little as 2 years, they find that products are beginning to leak, glazing units fail or the external cills even starting to rot.
At Ayrton, all our fitters are full-time employees and integral members of our expanding team. We do not subcontract any work because we prioritise reliability and consistently achieving the high standards we’re known for. Each project is led by a Head Installer, supported by a junior fitter, ensuring our customers receive exceptional service every time. Our fitters consistently receive outstanding feedback online, reflecting their skill and dedication.
Our fitting team handles the removal of your old windows and doors, ensuring they are responsibly disposed of at our recycling facilities in our London warehouse. We recycle as much as possible. The timber we use for replacements is sustainably FSC sourced and built to last for decades.
The lead time varies depending on the product you select, as well as the scale and complexity of your project. Since everything we manufacture is custom-made and tailored to your specifications, you can typically expect a lead time of 12-14 weeks from paying your deposit. Our sales team will provide specific advice based on your individual requirements.
The builder’s quote will almost certainly be significantly cheaper than our offering, but this is for a very good reason! So often than not, a builder will outsource and not invest into the best quality wood, glazing and security locks, or offer aftercare.
Ayrton specialises exclusively in timber, offering unmatched expertise in replicating traditional details. We do not work with other materials like uPVC, aluminium, or Crittall. Our fitters are highly skilled joiners, ensuring that timber, the most durable and authentic choice for London property windows and doors, is used throughout our projects.
We use a Meranti hardwood on external cills, the rest of unit being an engineered redwood (Latvian pine) engineered using the glue and laminate process – 4 pieces of timber glued and laminated parallel to each other. Our factory with 60 years of experience has found this to be the best method for window and door manufacturing as hardwood clearly has its advantages with standing water whilst engineered redwood (pine) is beneficial to counteract against movement that naturally comes with timber, this is the same combination we use on around 4,000 windows & doors and windows a year.
Our approach is always timber full replacement and replicating original timber doors like-for-like. We specialise in paying close attention to detail such as the traditional profiles, glazing bars, arches, cills and architraves. By replacing everything in its entirety we can offer you a lifetime guarantee and a thermally efficient solution that looks fantastic and in keeping with the property.
Why we do not recommend part replacement:
- When you are bonding new timber with old timber – new timber will settle at a completely different rate to the old timber, what this means is in two years or so when the new timber settles it settles at a completely different rate to the old timber and this eventually becomes an aftercare nightmare.
- Trying to fit perfectly straight timber sashes into old boxes that have moved simply do not fit. This leads poor draught exclusion and more friction in sliding.
- Old boxes are made to hold single glazed units. Thin double-glazed units that are squeezed into old boxes will not provide you with the thermal efficiency of a full replacement.
- Read the fine print when it comes to guarantees and aftercare, they are often non-existent. We often see people buy windows & doors twice, part replacement is an easy sell because of price and profit margins are greater with this approach. Part replacement is appealing when looking at the numbers and that is where it ends.
Our doors are fitted with robust adjustable hinges, so if you encounter any issues with a door sticking, our aftercare team can make the necessary adjustments. Various factors, such as house movement or extreme weather, can affect your door. We’re here to provide ongoing aftercare, ensuring you always have the perfect draught seal.
No, we specialize exclusively in external windows and doors. While we can manufacture internal doors, they are constructed to external specifications, including toughened double glazing and multi-point locking security, which typically makes them less suitable for internal use.
Ayrton specialises exclusively in timber, offering unmatched expertise in replicating traditional details. We do not work with other materials like uPVC, aluminium, or Crittall. Our fitters are highly skilled joiners, ensuring that timber, the most durable and authentic choice for London property windows and doors, is used throughout our projects.
Yes, our fitters will repair any damage caused to your plasterwork to a pre-decorative standard. Typically, there will be 5-10cm of disruption to the plasterwork, which our fitters will repair. Please note that this repair is done to a pre-decorative standard, so final paint touch-ups on your walls will be necessary either by a third party or by yourself if you are comfortable with painting.
Yes, Ayrton works throughout all conservation areas in London and specialises in meeting their specific requirements.
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