Changing glass on old everest UPVC/Metal framed front door

Flipjango

Hi everyone, hope you can help. When we bought our house we inherited an Everest front door. It looks like UPVC but seems to be lined with metal. I'm not sure how old it is. The door itself it ok looking so I don't really want to replace it but the glass it pretty nasty so we're hoping to replace that. Problem is, we can't work out how (and neither can the guy from the glass company we got round for a quote for the sealed unit). The glass doesn't come out by removing the seals like in normal UPVC windows. From having a look around its possible it might come out by removing some screws at the top of the door and possibly sliding the glass up and out but I'm reluctact to go unscrewing things until I'm sure. Can anyone shed any light on what we should be doing? I'm really hoping to save a bit of cash by doing this myself and I'm a competent DIY'er so would usually be pretty happy taking on things like this. Thanks

Silver-Surfer_2

Flipjango wrote: »

Hi everyone, hope you can help. When we bought our house we inherited an Everest front door. It looks like UPVC but seems to be lined with metal. I'm not sure how old it is. The door itself it ok looking so I don't really want to replace it but the glass it pretty nasty so we're hoping to replace that. Problem is, we can't work out how (and neither can the guy from the glass company we got round for a quote for the sealed unit). The glass doesn't come out by removing the seals like in normal UPVC windows. From having a look around its possible it might come out by removing some screws at the top of the door and possibly sliding the glass up and out but I'm reluctact to go unscrewing things until I'm sure. Can anyone shed any light on what we should be doing? I'm really hoping to save a bit of cash by doing this myself and I'm a competent DIY'er so would usually be pretty happy taking on things like this. Thanks

Get someone round to price up glass who knows what they're doing.

Flipjango

Any more constructive comments? Like I say, I'm hoping to do this myself.

Silver-Surfer_2

Flipjango wrote: »

Any more constructive comments? Like I say, I'm hoping to do this myself.

You still need the glass, remove the beading and try undoing the screws, see what happens.

Flipjango

There is no beading. That's why I'm asking. There's nothing to take off.

Silver-Surfer_2

Flipjango wrote: »

There is no beading. That's why I'm asking. There's nothing to take off.

So when you said the glass doesn't come out by removing the seals you meant there aren't any?

SatanicHare

A lot of older Everest doors were shuffle glazed, they had a bead at the top and bottom of the glass which came off and then the glass was slid left or right and removed that way. If you post some pictures I might be able to help a bit more

Flipjango

Ok, i've taken a couple of photos - sorry the quality isn't great but its hard to get them clear due to the light behind. There isn't anything much to remove as you can see - the seals (which are painted over) can be removed, but hard to tell what else can be.

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SatanicHare

To me it looks like an old aluminium door painted white, pop out the rubber seal and the top and bottom beads will come off, may be stuck with paint, if they do make sure whoever measures the glass gets it right as the width needs to be correct it's got to shuffle back in.