Question:
I am going to a wedding in Oz in a couple of weeks, and a friend of
the groom has asked if I could bring some sash parting beads with me -
they are apparently extortionately expensive in Oz, and she has got a
good price from a UK manufacturer.
So, before I say if I can or cannot do so, I need to know what I am
letting myself in for, but only having opened and closed sash windows,
and never renovated them, I know not what sash parting beads are.
Can some kind soul enlighten me please.
Answer:
-They're the strips of wood which hold the two sashes apart: they are
rectangular in cross-section but with one short side rounded. Can't think why
they would be so expensive in Oz - do they use a different design of sash
window there?
-However, I think you might be well advised to ring your friend & check
they want *wooden* beads. I say this because I saw an advert for a
sorta 'fan'-sectioned, expandable gap-filling flexible polymer
parting-bead recently, and it seemed like a seriously neat product -
press-fit, no-paint, self-lube - but I can't find 'em for sale in UK
at all. I think they'd be just the thing for Oz. I thought they'd be
just the thing for *me*, but no-one in the biz. ever heard of 'em.
