Arlington House resident on issues with windows

A resident of Arlington House in Margate describes the issues with windows

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00:00 Yes, absolutely. It's about time.

00:02 The building was put up or opened in the early 60s

00:07 and nothing's been changed since then for the windows.

00:10 They'd have to have such thick frames to alter the look of the building.

00:15 I don't think it would matter that the windows are like panoramic windows above us.

00:21 You wouldn't notice a slightly thicker frame.

00:25 The issues that have been, the same issues since I moved in,

00:28 as you can see, the disrepair of them.

00:31 These ones I've actually repaired myself in the past two or three times.

00:36 But they're in disrepair.

00:38 These are slightly different to the windows in the rest of the block.

00:41 The rest of the block windows are aluminium framed

00:43 and they slide on small plastic wheels

00:48 that over the years have just gone flat on different sides

00:51 so people have to drag them open and closed.

00:54 None of them fit properly. They're all drafty.

00:58 The wind howls through them.

01:00 When the wind howls outside, it howls inside as well.

01:04 They're just terrible, terrible.

01:06 They rattle, shake.

01:08 There's many, many windows in the block that have had seagull strikes

01:13 and they're cracked.

01:15 And in the summer, the heat distorts the frames and cracks the glass

01:21 but they won't come and replace the glass.

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