When you look around newly built housing estates you would be forgiven for thinking that all of the timber in the world had vanished.
Plastic gutters, plastic fascia's, plastic rain water pipes and plastic windows.
There's nothing wrong with this, it's practical, cost effective and retain it's appearance for many years, but there's just one thing, its not wood - plastic (uPVC) windows aren't warm to look at or to touch.
This is not the only disadvantage in my opinion, when a lock fails on a UPVC window the likelihood is that the whole window unit will be binned.
This is not to say that uPVC windows are not secure, quite the contrary - when fitted they offer excellent protection against any likely intruders.
It's upgrading or replacing those security measures that is difficult to do with both uPVC doors and windows.
I love wood as a material and think it's great that you can now identify that your wood has come from a sustainable source.
The main reasons aside from its appearance that I like things built from wood are that as a parts fail they can be replaced and not thrown away.
Having wooden doors and windows mean that you can fix locks to them wherever you want in reason and in turn this means that you have the broadest range of locks to choose from, be it the most secure lock or the most convenient.
It is my view that one of the best types of lock that you can get for wooden windows is the locking stay.
They offer the ability to lock the window in it's normal open, closed or any position in between that the window would normally be opened at.
You can get restful nights sleep with your window open knowing that it is intruder proof.