- Impact from a stone or other object smashing the glass in a ‘bullseye’ effect
- The result of a break-in
- Extreme weather or changes in pressure causing a crack
- The sealed unit being ‘blown’, meaning that it’s no longer energy efficient due to air leaking out
Newmilns
Newmilns and Greenholm is a small burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) and rests on the A71, around 7 miles east of Kilmarnock and twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is located in a valley whereby the River Irvine runs and, with the neighbouring towns of Darvel as well as Galston, develops an area referred to as the Upper Irvine Valley (locally referred to as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in 2 components - Newmilns to the north of the river and Greenholm to the south. The river likewise separates the churches of Loudoun as well as Galston, which is why the burgh, although normally referred to as Newmilns, has actually preserved both names. Of the mills themselves, bit currently continues to be. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which remained on Brown Street opposite the train station (contemporary Vesuvius structure). Famed in Allan Ramsay's poem, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was demolished in 1977 and all that currently stays becomes part of the mill's exterior wall surface. The only mill building still intact can be found at the foot of Ladeside. Now made use of as housing, Loudoun Mill (formerly the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in use from 1593 till it quit creating dish in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was removed as well as the lade filled in, with the only remaining idea of the site's former use being a slogan, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" etched on the outer wall.
