Showing posts with label crittal. Show all posts
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Friday 29 February 2008

Out with the Old

Pictures from inside the remains of the "Crittal" metal-framed lean-to (the house was originally built in 1960 with Crittal window frames and quarry-tiled window-sills, typical of the era, but PVC replacement windows were installed sometime in recent years). Amazingly tidy for a building site, don't you think?

One picture looks across the kitchen window/wall (notice the outside tap which will soon be inside) towards the garage, where a bit of wall has to be removed for a personal door from the house. The other picture shows the thermo-tiled floor that was inside the lean-to and the 'building blocks' like large grey Duplo, waiting to be used above the damp course. We still hadn't chosen the folding doors at this stage and a decision would be needed fairly quickly.

The area which is to be the inside floor has to be taken up so that it can be relaid with multiple layers of inorganic insulation to comply with current regulations (which, in my opinion, clash somewhat with current thinking on "green" issues).