"Mr & Mrs Williams of Cheadle Hulme had only been living in their newly built home for a few years when they discovered that their timber window frames were in a badly deteriorated condition.

When Ms D Parker of Hyde approached Faroncrown, the look of her terraced home was being ruined by rotten old timber frames.

Mrs Streeter in Dukinfield had flat windows. She transformed her house with decorated, fully sculptured, lightoak, bow windows