Now I know how to properly fix a window if I need to. Love how Sir Richard jumps in and out of the shot at the glass shop, and how he gets upset with himself every time he breaks the glass he installed.
When Richard said "If you can't remember all the details...", just for a moment I thought he was going to continue "...they're on the website". Even though I'm in my sixties.🙄
Ive seen this video years ago and today i needed to fix a window and this came to mind. I actually fixed it! My house is ancient! Due to increasing housing prices ill never be able to provide a safe environment for my children!
My dad replaced all our Victorian sash windows with wooden frames he made himself in the early 1980s. I helped fit them. We only replaced them with UPVC twenty years later for the extra insulation value.
Very talented bloke with the driest sense of humour I've ever encountered. Little known fact: he wrote the lyrics for the ALW musical Starlight Express.
Yes it would’ve needed to be at great height with only a herring to hold onto for safety measures - never forget the Nelson’s column film from blue Peter and how brave the camera man had to be as well !!
In all seriousness, Richard Stilgoe is a very talented and generous man.
I was lucky enough to see him live. Very funny and talented. 👍
😊 I’ve watched this several times over the years. Unexplainable how relaxing & satisfying it is.
I'm watching before bed 😂
"You can use a new chisel - it'll be an old one by the time you're finished with it" :D
Now I know how to properly fix a window if I need to.
Love how Sir Richard jumps in and out of the shot at the glass shop, and how he gets upset with himself every time he breaks the glass he installed.
Brilliant. Richard was one of my favourite presenters when i was a kid. Loved his humour.
Amazing to see RS again after all these years
Practical, and a great piano player. What more would one want from a presenter? He really was omnipresent in the 70s
This is superb
When Richard said "If you can't remember all the details...", just for a moment I thought he was going to continue "...they're on the website". Even though I'm in my sixties.🙄
this is the perfect level of humour for three generations to enjoy
I saw this clip a few years ago somewhere. Great to see an official upload
Love Richard, grew up watching him on Countdown 😊
This is the best film I ever watched !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i've seen this a few years ago. Still a great one
Bravo Richard - these days it's Dermot O'Dreary or Rylan - god I miss the old days
Shattering glass right next to your head by throwing a hammer without any kind of protection or goggles is certainly brave D:
That can be a bit too John Noakes for some people.
Great presenter this chap.
Ive seen this video years ago and today i needed to fix a window and this came to mind. I actually fixed it! My house is ancient! Due to increasing housing prices ill never be able to provide a safe environment for my children!
From not so long ago - when your 'windows operating system' was the handle!
Feels so archaic to be using fractions of an inch
Yes! Thank goodness we went metric :)
My dad replaced all our Victorian sash windows with wooden frames he made himself in the early 1980s. I helped fit them. We only replaced them with UPVC twenty years later for the extra insulation value.
Same here! - dad was a joiner, RIP. Still remember the smell of putty for weeks after.
Did the glass merchant also put his rules under the glass to break it?
Enjoyed watching this very much
I like how after the third time, he just gives up: ‘glass merchants, ruler, broken glass’
Is Richard still going
Long before the days of UPVC
Even in the 1970s we were mixing Imperial (e.g., 21 inches height ) and Metric (3mm thick) measurements
Well this man created my job as a web developer, and life is good
If I was Spanish and I saw Richard Stilgo in Amsterdam advertising 'putty' standing beside a window, I would frown at such a thing.
If TV was still like this I'd buy a license again
🤣 and another trip to the glass merchant 🤣
I don't know who this guy is, but he is handsome!
All done without safety specs, hearing defenders or hard hat! Those were the days
To this day he's still doing the windows
Well this seems like a relatively paneless process
With the number of times he went to the glass merchant, it seemed rather paneful, I'd say.
Yes, think of all the glass that he was pane for.
@@lizziejohnson5084Mercifully the cost wasn't expanential
Looks like Mike Love from The Beach Boys
Very talented bloke with the driest sense of humour I've ever encountered. Little known fact: he wrote the lyrics for the ALW musical Starlight Express.
I forgot how funny he was
Five minutes of watching a man fix a window.
What a pane.
I did start to glaze over too!
@morenormal That cracks me up 😆
Behave! Sir Richard is a national treasure. Now I'm glassy-eyed 😢
“Richard Stilgoe’s DIY masterclass”. Wasn’t that one of Alan Partridge’s programme ideas?
I was expecting a song…
Sorry to be a pedant, but surely "Replacing a windowPANE"?
The window itself was never replaced.
You're not wrong. Corrected now.
Damn, missed the pun: 'Sorry to be a pain"😎
@@BsktImp -- aaarrgh! *kicking myself*
LOL 😂
So well conceived it makes tv today look completely unintelligent - or maybe these days that's the intention?
🤣
Christ, is he still alive?
This would have been too much smoke for Noakes. He would have walked away thinking it was too simple a task to be true 😅
Yes it would’ve needed to be at great height with only a herring to hold onto for safety measures - never forget the Nelson’s column film from blue Peter and how brave the camera man had to be as well !!
Now it’s literally garbage on TV. Nothing is interesting as these old Archives and lots are before I was even born.
This was great so funny as well not much call for putty these days though