Window and Door Components.

Timber window and door components, made to order in the wood you choose. Every section on this page is machined to your sizes and to your profile, so nothing here is off-the-shelf stock. Whether you are a professional joiner or a DIY homeowner, tell us the shape you need and UK joinery mills quote against it - one replacement sash bottom rail for a Victorian bay, or a full set of hardwood window profiles for a new build.

We are strongest where a profile has to match something that already exists. Listed buildings, conservation areas and period properties - Georgian, Regency, Victorian, Edwardian and Arts and Crafts - use sections no merchant carries. We copy them from a sample, a photograph or a drawing. Any wood, any profile.

Window and door sections we can match

Sash window parts - stiles, heads, top rails, bottom rails, mid-rails, meeting rails and sash horns, for box sash and spring sash windows.
Box sash frame parts - pulley stiles, inner and outer linings, staff bead and parting bead.
Casement window sections - frame heads and jambs, mullions, transoms, casement stiles and rails.
Glazing bars - plain, ovolo and lambs tongue bars, and astragal bars for Georgian bar windows, cut to your sight line and glazing rebate.
Door linings, casings and frames - internal oak door linings and other hardwood linings, external timber door frames, jambs and heads.
Weatherboards, door bottoms and drip moulds, plus cover moulds and glazing beads to suit.

Choose the species to suit the job. European oak, sapele and iroko are the usual choices outside, for durability and appearance. For internal work such as door linings and beads, walnut, maple, ash and beech are excellent, and other species can be quoted on request. Solid timber only - we do not supply MDF, PVCu, plastic or foil-wrapped sections.

Pick the profile below that is closest to yours and add your sizes, or send your own section. One enquiry goes to several UK suppliers and you compare the quotes that come back.

Made to Match Existing Window and Door Components.

If you are looking to match existing Window and Door Components, please select the profile that best / closest matches your product from the following options. Alternatively, we also have a range of pre-designed Window and Door Components mouldings to choose from by using the filters further down this page.

Get a price: choose the closest profile above for an instant guide price, then compare quotes from UK suppliers.

Window and Door Components - Further Reading:

Window and Door Components: Made to Match Timber Sections for Joinery and Restoration

Our timber window and door components are made for the manufacture and repair of wooden windows and doors. They are cut to order, so the section you receive is the section you specified rather than the nearest thing a merchant happened to stock.

The parts of a wooden window, and what they are called

Using the right name saves a lot of back and forth when you order.

Stiles - the upright sides of a sash or a casement.

Top rail and bottom rail - the horizontal members at the head and foot of a sash. The bottom rail of a lower sash is usually the first part of a window to rot, and is the single most commonly replaced component.

Meeting rails - where the upper and lower sashes cross in a box sash window. They are often thinner than the other rails and angled where they close against each other.

Sash horns - the small shaped projections below the meeting rail on Victorian and Edwardian sashes. The shape is frequently particular to the house, which is exactly the sort of thing a made to match section handles.

Glazing bars, also called astragal bars - the slim bars that divide the glass into panes. Georgian windows use many of them, later windows fewer and heavier.

Pulley stiles, linings, staff bead and parting bead - the box frame that houses the sash weights, and the slim beads that hold each sash in its run.

Head, jambs, mullions and transoms - the outer frame and its dividing members. Window boards, cills and thresholds have their own section: see cills, thresholds, canopies and drips.
Door linings and casings - the timber that lines a structural opening and carries the door. Architrave then covers the joint between lining and wall.

How to match an existing profile

Send a sample. A 100mm offcut is the most accurate thing you can give us, and a short piece cut from an already rotten section still carries the profile.
Or photograph the end grain square on, with a steel rule or tape measure in the shot so the scale can be read off the picture.
Or send a drawing. A full size section drawing or a dimensioned sketch both work.
Measure overall width and thickness of the section, then the depth and width of every rebate - glazing rebate, weather rebate, drainage groove and any upstand.
Note the sight line, the visible face width once the section is fitted. On a period window the sight line is what the eye actually reads, and it is what a conservation officer looks at.
Say what it is for - internal or external, painted or clear finished, single glazed or double glazed. A glazing rebate sized for a sealed unit is considerably deeper than one for 4mm glass.
Give lengths and quantities, and allow a little extra for machining and waste.

Heritage and conservation work

On a listed building or in a conservation area the profile is usually the whole point of the consent. A stock section with the wrong sight line or a missing horn will be spotted. Because every component here is made to order we can copy the existing section rather than substitute the closest standard profile, so keep an original piece back as evidence and take photographs before anything is stripped out. If your consent specifies a species or a moisture content, put it in the enquiry and the quotes will reflect it.

How to source it, and how the quotes work

Select the profile above that is closest to yours, or send us your own sample, photograph or drawing.
Add the timber species, the sizes and the quantity. Our profile wizard walks you through the custom options.
Your one enquiry goes out to UK timber suppliers and joinery mills who work in that species.
You compare the quotes that come back and deal direct with the supplier you choose.

Everything is machined to order in solid timber. We do not supply MDF, PVCu, plastic or foil-wrapped sections, and we do not sell from stock. For other matched sections see beading, panel mould and made to match mouldings.

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