Building Progress During the Pandemic

Progress was very slow during April, as you can imagine. However small teams of a couple of people at any one time were able to carry on with their tasks. 

The external shots show the windows in place and the Cedral cladding.

The following internal shots are of the windows from Rationel.

Notice that in the above photograph, the electrical work has begun. 

Some of the photographs can be seen on Delta Project Management's Instagram, together with other projects they are managing.

For further progress on our new build project, go to the next update.

One done, one to do!

Constructed and weather-protected whilst awaiting its cladding, the first dormer was temporarily left while the guys moved on to create an identical one in the next bedroom. What we'll end up with is a row of three similar (including next door, shown to the right of one of the photographs).

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Having to buy a new window for the new dormer, we also decided to splash out on a new window for the existing dormer so that they matched. In any case, we had had to tape the window on the inside to reduce the whistling noise when the wind blew through the gaps! We obtained quotes for aluminium (which we preferred) and PVC (which was approximately half the price). In this case, we felt that choosing PVC would be good enough ... and we hope we don't live to regret that decision in the next few years. Still, having had stained wooden frames on our previous abode, we felt that PVC couldn't be worse; being south-facing, the wooden frames were in constant need of maintenance plus a bit hard to open when they swelled in the rain or heat, so at least we should be avoiding those annoyances.

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We used Hertford Glass to supply the dormer windows, as our builder has used them before and Stevenage Glass didn't bother getting back to us, despite two emails. If a company encourages emails from its web site visitors, why don't they bother responding???

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