Hi Don W,

If you had made the changes to the window whilst it was still in position I would suggest that this might be classed as a repair provided you had chosen to use "like for like" materials but by you own confession you deliberately choose to employ offcuts of a dissimilar nature and hence this might actually be more akin to a fix. Thus in our word list maybe we need to separate out both the terms "repair" and "fix" since there might well be quite a definite distiction between the two.

Given that you choose to remove the window, dissassemble and then make changes to same using dissimilar materials then depending on how much was replaced you might well have possibly have strayed into the territory of salvage - because the window was removed and is now effectively no longer part of the building but is being repaired for reuse i.e. it is being saved or salvaged but is not quite being restored.

Our list of words is now revised as follows :-

Conservation, Preservation, Restoration, Refurbishment, Maintenance, Repair, Fix, Replacement, Delapidate, Demolish, Salvage, Replicataton, Reuse, Conversion (Adaptive Reuse), Change, Alter.

Regards

Ken Hume