Tilt and turn windows in London, built for flats and busy lives.
Glazing London supplies and installs tilt and turn windows across London: inward opening uPVC or aluminium sashes that tilt for secure ventilation and turn fully into the room for cleaning. Made to measure, A-rated glass, FENSA certified, free survey and quote. Call 07399 253464, 24/7.
Tilt: ventilate securely
The top of the sash leans into the room by 10-15 degrees. Fresh air flows over the top edge while the side locking points stay engaged, so it can stay open overnight, even four storeys up.
Turn: open fully inward
The whole sash swings into the room like a door. Clean the outside glass from inside, pass furniture through, or use it as the escape opening Building Regulations ask of bedrooms.
The easy clean window for flats, and not only flats.
Standard casements open outward, which is fine until the window is on the fourth floor, over a basement well, or facing a lightwell no ladder will ever reach. Inward opening windows turn all of that maintenance into a two-minute job from inside the room.
Flats & apartments
Clean both faces of the glass with your feet on the carpet, and stop paying an abseil crew to do it. Tilt mode gives secure overnight ventilation at any height, which is why so many London block specifications name tilt turn uPVC windows outright.
Upper floors & lightwells
Any opening that a ladder cannot safely reach is a tilt and turn candidate: above conservatories and flat roofs, over basement wells, behind parapets. If you currently only ever clean the inside pane, this is the fix.
Bedrooms needing escape
In turn mode the full sash clears the frame, so escape-designated bedrooms get a genuinely usable opening. We size them to the Building Regulations minimum of 0.33m² and 450mm each way, and your FENSA certificate records it.
Busy roads
The inward-pulling gearing compresses the sash into its gaskets at multiple points, sealing better than most outward hardware. Paired with acoustic laminated glass, it is one of the quietest opening windows we fit.
Tilt turn uPVC windows, or aluminium
Most of what we fit is uPVC tilt and turn on a 70mm multi-chambered profile, made to measure by our sister company Prime Fabrication and typically installed within 7-10 days of survey. Standard glazing is a 28mm A-rated double-glazed unit (around 1.2 W/m²K) with triple glazing optional; frames come in white, anthracite grey, black and woodgrain foils, with trickle vents where Part F requires them. For larger sashes and slimmer sightlines, aluminium windows carry more glass per opening; where an outward-opening style suits the elevation better, see our casement windows, or compare everything at the window and door installation hub.
One honest caveat: an inward-opening sash needs clear space inside, so deep sills crowded with plants, or blinds mounted tight to the frame, need planning at survey. We check curtain and blind clearances as standard. Installation is FENSA certified with an insurance-backed guarantee, and if a pane gets broken before or after fitting day, our 24/7 emergency glazing team covers it. Ready when you are: book a free survey and quote.