Glazing for a summerhouse

[Nimrod103]

I have a 10 year old summerhouse (which to be honest is mainly used as a store for stuff). I don't know what the original windows were made of, some plastic stuff, which has now gone distinctly brown, and a couple have broken. What would be a good material to re glaze with, assuming I don't want glass.
Looking at pre cut acrylic, online, a 50cm square sheet is about £11-12, so the whole summerhouse might cost £200 to reglaze, which is astonishingly expensive.
Any suggestions?

[Mike4]

Frankly, glass is your best bet for economy. Always amazingly cheap to buy from a glass merchant.

Acrylic is probably what you already have, which turned brown.

[bungeejumper]

There's acrylic, and then there's polycarbonate, and then there's polycarbonate with a UV treatment that will stop it going yellow.

The choice is yours. It gets significantly cheaper if you order it online, but your measurements need to be exact. (And your right angles need to be right angles as well.) Forget about trying to cut it yourself, it's an absolute pig.

Glass is classier. It doesn't like sticks and stones thrown up by your lawnmower, but that's another story entirely. As I discovered.

BJ

[DrFfybes]

There's acrylic, and then there's polycarbonate, and then there's polycarbonate with a UV treatment that will stop it going yellow.

The choice is yours. It gets significantly cheaper if you order it online, but your measurements need to be exact. (And your right angles need to be right angles as well.) Forget about trying to cut it yourself, it's an absolute pig.

Glass is classier. It doesn't like sticks and stones thrown up by your lawnmower, but that's another story entirely. As I discovered.

BJ

You can cut acrylic sheet very easily with an angle grinder. This metal cutting disc that effectively melts its way through, then just file/sand the edges.

If you're fitting it like glass with quadrant beading then the edges get hidden.

But yes. glass can be cheaper, although you might want safety glass rather than greenhouse 3mm float glass, which obviously costs more.

Paul

[richlist]

Do you actually need to re glaze it ? If it's just a storage building you could panel over the glazed bits and paint it.
One of my neighbours did that to his summer house and it looked fantastic.