Thread: timber vs aluminium windows

Hi,

Just wondering if you could provide some input into the following;

We currently have an old federation home that has aluminium windows. In the next few months we are doing minor renovations that require 3 x new windows to be installed. I have been reading a heap of info on the web saying that aluminium windows greatly decrease the value of old houses.
Therefore, I am pretty keen to install new ‘timber’ windows into the renovated parts of the house, and gradually replace the existing aluminium ones with timber over the coming years.

Could I get your knowledge on aluminium versus timber? One big negative of timber these days is the moisture in the air from gas heaters (which we have).
I am assuming that correctly painting or sealing windows initially will help a lot with this problem. Do you have any comments on this issue also?

Many thanks