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Old 07-08-2011, 10:04   #16
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Re: Virgin Installation damaged by Bay Window, will I get compensation?

The black cable used is for internal use aswell just look at the lable on top of the drum it clearley states black internal.
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Re: Virgin Installation damaged by Bay Window, will I get compensation?

I'll have a look but in training i was told the White stuff is not weatherproofed and goes a horrible yellow over time and the black stuff gives off a toxic fume when burned meaning it's not safe in a fire, it should be used external
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It is not that "fixable" with filler. If it is structural rather than decorative a fair bit of the timber section on the cross member has been broken away. Whilst timber components are often oversized, filler will not usually have a structural strength unless specialist resin bonding based systems are used. Equally whilst the timber was whole it would likely perform, and decay evenly. Where it is now chopped into, if filled especially with standard fillers, there will be a weakness where future decay is most likely to start.

I'd be wanting a completely new bracket to be made up.

Of course to deal with the bracket the cable needs to be moved, which no doubt means the installer returning to the property and some internal making good too.
In my experience those Gallows brackets are purely decorative as that type of window is a bow window as opposed to a bay window .One way the OP can be sure is to look for any cut bricks either side of the top of the bracket where the wood goes through the wall to be anchored in the inner leaf of brickwork.
I agree that a new bracket is needed as rot will set in fairly quickly and getting both brackets replaced is the way i would go to ensure a good match

just had a good look at the pic and i would be 99%certain that they are only decorative as the construction of the bracket themselves is wrong for a structural bracket and i see no cut bricks
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