{"id":17261,"date":"2021-06-06T21:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T19:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=17261"},"modified":"2021-06-06T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T19:30:08","slug":"and-then-there-were-two-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/and-then-there-were-two-3\/","title":{"rendered":"And then there were two"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had another one of my disturbed nights – not so much disturbed as I just woke up early, having had only between 5 and 6 hours sleep. Anyway, I couldn’t get back to sleep, mainly because I’d been bitten like crazy by a mosquito during the night – on my face, finger and wrist – so I thought that I might as well get up, have breakfast and get straight onto installing the second replacement bedroom window.<\/p>\n

We’ve got a marvellous spell of weather in prospect for the rest of this week and as I already have one meeting lined up with a building contractor tomorrow morning, I must make the best use of it to finish off the work I have to do on the house to give myself time for packing and getting ready to leave, caravan work and meeting, hopefully, with the other contractors that I contacted last week<\/p>\n

After I’d had breakfast, I blasted on to clear the second (my) bedroom, create space to work in and cover up what I couldn’t take out to protect it from dust. Then I attacked the window and frame in the same way that Wim and I did the other last week and soon had it out on the ground outside. I was disappointed to find that when the frame was removed, the wall on one side was sunk so far below the plaster surface that there was nothing to drill and plug to take the screws to hold the window frame in.<\/p>\n

So I had to make it good with sand-cement mortar – I did a bit on the other side too actually – and I thought that this would mean that I’d have to then leave the job until tomorrow when it would have cured. However, for once the hot sun worked in my favour and after I’d had a quick lunch, I found that the mortar was already hard enough to be screwed and plugged. So I was able to get the new frame in today after all, and in fact the job was generally better and the fixings also better than I’d got with the other window.<\/p>\n

By the end of the afternoon, about 5.30 pm, I got this second window, to the same stage as the first ie ready for sealing and finishing, which I hope to be able to do tomorrow. Here they both are.<\/p>\n

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The next three shots show the window closed and open in swivel and tilt modes.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a shot of both windows taken fom the outside.<\/p>\n

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I think it’s a great improvement and it is, in purely practical terms. The bottoms of the old window frames were totally rotten and when I broke them out I found that they contained a lot of insects that like that sort of thing and that were finding their way indoors. One of the panes in my bedroom’s window was also a cracked and it’ll be nice to see the back of that. Just to finish off, here’s an old shot of the house with the original old windows, from 2016 I believe when they were actually in better condition than now.<\/p>\n

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What do you think? Was it worth it? I think so… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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