Bay window - 4 panel to 5 panel?

Slinky

FIREmenow said:

Numb_fingers said:

So many people have said to me to stay with 4 panes so I'm going to even though I do like the look of 5.

I will be changing the porch window so it has 4 seperate panes.

Thanks for all your comments.

Hard to be sure from photos, but you might struggle to fit four vertical panes in the porch window - they could be so thin and the frames so chunky that they let very little light in. 

You could go for two panes as I mocked up in my earlier post, and this would keep all your panes in even numbers, giving you a dividing line down the centre. You might be able to get three in, but then this window would be an odd one out.

I read that as he would be having 2 fanlights and dividing the lower glass into 2, total 4 separate panes.

Numb_fingers

I'm a wheelchair user, is there a way of restricting access to the bottom opening windows on the ground floor?

FIREmenow

Slinky said:

FIREmenow said:

Numb_fingers said:

So many people have said to me to stay with 4 panes so I'm going to even though I do like the look of 5.

I will be changing the porch window so it has 4 seperate panes.

Thanks for all your comments.

Hard to be sure from photos, but you might struggle to fit four vertical panes in the porch window - they could be so thin and the frames so chunky that they let very little light in. 

You could go for two panes as I mocked up in my earlier post, and this would keep all your panes in even numbers, giving you a dividing line down the centre. You might be able to get three in, but then this window would be an odd one out.

I read that as he would be having 2 fanlights and dividing the lower glass into 2, total 4 separate panes.

Maybe so, but in the same post they said 4/5 when referring to the bay widow rather than 8/10 so I stuck with a consistent assumption 

Slinky

Are you having casements at the side, or the lower section of window hinged at the top, that would allow egress in the event of a fire? In which case the fanlights at the top can be pretty much whatever depth you want. When we had our conservatory built, 2 houses back, the chap who did the design recommended having shallower fanlights, as otherwise the horizontal parts tend to be right in your eyeline when standing up, for a lot of people.