Retrofit double glazing for a Ballarat home
Ballarat is one of the colder places to live in regional Victoria. Hard frosts, long grey mornings and the odd fall of snow are part of winter here, and the heating tends to run from about April right through to October.
A lot of that heat goes straight out through single-glazed windows. Ballarat has plenty of solid older housing, the goldfields-era and Federation weatherboards and brick homes through Ballarat East, Golden Point, Soldiers Hill, Brown Hill, Canadian, Nerrina and around Lake Wendouree, and most were built with single panes in timber frames. Retrofitting is how you fix that without changing the look of the place. We take out the single pane and fit a sealed, argon-filled unit into the frame you already have, so the window still looks right from the street.
That matters in Ballarat, where much of the central city and the older suburbs sit under a heritage overlay and keeping the original street-facing windows is often the sensible path. It also suits the newer brick-veneer homes out through Lucas, Alfredton, Winter Valley and Delacombe, where the estates on the edge of town catch the wind coming off the western plains.
Around 90% of homes suit retrofit double glazing. It usually comes in at a fraction of the patented-system price, and we will tell you honestly when we measure if yours is one of the few that does not.
