Day 132 - Bedroom Windows

Here's the new high-level window in the master bedroom - the obscured glass will come later

 

And here are our lovely french windows. So excited about these and how nice they'll be in the summer.

 

I also took a pic from the outside looking back at the doors. I won't be able to do this again as we'll have a juliette balcony in front of the doors. Unfortunately we're not allowed to use the flat roof as a balcony as it overlooks next door's garden.

 

 
Here's the view from the french windows, pretty nice apart from the blue plastic on the flat roof!


And the view from Liam's room

Day 110 - Bedroom roof

The roof for bedroom extension goes up

 


Elsewhere the carpenter, Pelham, and his assistant Graham are fixing the roof beams - it seems many have sagged or are just wonky and as we're now replacing all of the ceilings everything needs to be level.

Day 101 - Henry's Son

This week we met with Peter from Henry & Sons, our window suppliers, to measure up.


That's Peter on the right

We also met our chippie, the unusually monikered Pelham. I'm interested in unusual/old names from my family history studies and this isn't one I'd come across before. According to a quick search on t'internet Pelham is an old English name which may mean tannery town which is slightly less glamorous.
I also found that Pelham is the first name of P.G. Wodehouse and that according to the wonderful, if grammatically incorrect site, YourNotMe there are only 62 people called Pelham in the UK.

No pics of Pelham but here's a slightly blurry pic of his great work on the 5th Bedroom roof




And here's the 5th bedroom


View from the 5th bedroom doorway looking forwards.


High level window window in our bedroom which we're hoping to turn into an opening window, albeit with occluded glass, otherwise we have a ventilation problem in the master bedroom as the french windows aren't tall enough to include a top opening window without looking odd.


And here's the french window opening

I also made myself somewhat unpopular with Graham, our master brickie as we decided the main bathroom window (that he'd already built) wasn't big enough - eek! For some reason our architect John had drawn the window pretty small on the plans and it was only seeing it in real life that we realised it would be better if it was bigger. It should only cost us a replacement lintel to change though.