I don't get the impression anybody really enjoyed week 16.
Its was the first time I have heard Jonathan a little flustered, when I called on Monday afternoon. At the time he, along with the entire rest of the 9 man team, were in a yard unloading a lorry load of very expensive Katzbeck windows from Austria. The problem being that these windows are triple glazed and very big, so they are very heavy and they are very delicate. And they were actually unloading 2 houses worth, not just ours. And they were on borrowed time in a borrowed yard. So all in all they were all faced with a fairly big and nasty job. The windows could not be delivered to site as the lorry was just too large. So Jonathan arranged them to be delivered to a warehouse nearby so they could be easily ferried to the site. Jonathan was surprisingly quiet that week as I think the sheer scale of the task of getting these huge and delicate beasts to site unfolded. Suffice to say it took most of the guys most of the week to unload them and get them over to the site. Some pics below to give a flavour.
In eager preparation the scaffolding from the front of the building was removed, and Zack's Dad practised a little Tai Chi
Windows then started to arrive. But first the guys had to build a special a-frame for the hire van. Below a series of demounted (to save weight) glass panels are delivered
There was plenty of planning!
onsite and the biggest of all weighing in at almost 500kg installed!
Its was the first time I have heard Jonathan a little flustered, when I called on Monday afternoon. At the time he, along with the entire rest of the 9 man team, were in a yard unloading a lorry load of very expensive Katzbeck windows from Austria. The problem being that these windows are triple glazed and very big, so they are very heavy and they are very delicate. And they were actually unloading 2 houses worth, not just ours. And they were on borrowed time in a borrowed yard. So all in all they were all faced with a fairly big and nasty job. The windows could not be delivered to site as the lorry was just too large. So Jonathan arranged them to be delivered to a warehouse nearby so they could be easily ferried to the site. Jonathan was surprisingly quiet that week as I think the sheer scale of the task of getting these huge and delicate beasts to site unfolded. Suffice to say it took most of the guys most of the week to unload them and get them over to the site. Some pics below to give a flavour.
In eager preparation the scaffolding from the front of the building was removed, and Zack's Dad practised a little Tai Chi
Windows then started to arrive. But first the guys had to build a special a-frame for the hire van. Below a series of demounted (to save weight) glass panels are delivered
There was plenty of planning!
And lots of heavy lifting
And here they are - windows - the white protective tape covers up the RAL7016 (grey) aluminium exteriors. Even the smallest windows, a modest 800*1200mm need two men to lift.
Some big lift-and-slide panes for the dinning room and kitchen
But the week ended well with all the windows safely (we believe)
Here seen from the inside looking out.
Thea, Em and I celebrated by making a cake.
And tested some of our flooring samples for their potential to stain. Our test substances being dark soy, curry paste, tomato ketchup and olive oil. Amazingly all faired pretty well. The coatings on trial were Osmo Raw and and Ciranova UN1CO Oil with a extra maintenance oil coat. The latter is used on the very nice (but sadly too expensive) floors from Reeve of which we have a number of very nice samples.
And took a trip on the river to see how it was looking from the water. It was never going to be a discrete house.
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