- 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.
Umberleigh
Umberleigh is a former huge manor within the historic hundred of (North) Tawton, but today a small village in North Devon in England. It used to be an ecclesiastical parish, yet complying with the building of the church at Atherington it ended up being a part of that parish. It develops however a part of the civil parish of Chittlehampton, which is primarily situated on the east side of the River Taw. The manor of Umberleigh, which had its very own access in the Domesday Book of 1086, was entirely situated on the west side of the River Taw as well as was centred on the Nunnery which was provided by William the Conqueror to the Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, Normandy. The site was later on inhabited by the manor house of Umberleigh, today Georgian manifestation of which, a big and grand farmhouse, is known as "Umberleigh House". Next to the manor house in about 1275 was founded Umberleigh Chapel, currently a spoil the single continuing to be wall of which forms the back wall of a farm implements shed.