- 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.
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.
