- 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.
Berriedale
Berriedale is a small estate village on the north east coast of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway between Helmsdale and also Lybster, close to the border between Caithness and Sutherland. It is sheltered from the North Sea. The village has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Simply south of Berriedale, on the way to the north, the A9 passes the Berriedale Braes, a steep decrease in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hill, a borrowing of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The road drops down outstanding (13% over 1,3 km) to bridge a river, prior to increasing once again (13% over 1,3 km), with a variety of sharp bends in the road-- although some of the barrette bends as well as other close-by gradients have been relieved in recent times. The impracticality (and expense) of linking the Berriedale Braes prevented the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the eastern coastline of Caithness; instead the railway runs inland through the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the 8th stage of the coastal John o' Groats Path.
