The Tale of Three Windows (by sarah)
Well as always with us things have been catastrophically failing one after the other! A while ago now we tried to open the bedroom window and the wood gave out and the pan of glass creaked - well the guy came to repair it and yes the whole frame was rotten and I think really the entire window should have been replaced as did he but Barbara thinks the rest is ok. So we had a borded up window for a while and he was going to touch up some paint that was peeling on a window in the office whilst he waited for our new window to be made.
He went to flake off the old pain and oh! The stupid window frame disintegrates and is pretty dangerous really - the reason? The last painters that were got in had just painted over the rot and probably have been doing so everytime they've come to paint - these are the same painters who painted the windows shut in the first place.
Anyway with alot of umming and ahhing we decided to panel off the bottom half of the office window as it used to be a door and went right down to the window - this has taken a while and has ment the place has been a bit of a building site. He basically finished that window yesturday - he still needs to put the gloss on the first window.
This morning however I am sitting downstairs with the rain sheeting down outside when what should I hear but thunk, thunk, ping, thunk... i tracked the source and too my dispair saw quiet alot of water dripping through the alcove ceiling right onto the cubs papier mache projects that hat been placed there to dry!
I think its cuaght severally damaged the wooden window seal which is like a foot and a half deep the kids projects should dry out again ok - I hope.
Sigh - the reason for this last window? Well the cutter has a little kink in it and can't cope with the amount of rain and so is just sort of pouring it down the side of the house where it is running in some dodgy 'pointing' i.e. were the cement/morta stuffs fallen out from betwwen the stones. Its also ruined the plaster on the inside.
Ho hum....
Ontop of that it is still raining and we are probably about to have the thrid flood of the year!
Building Maintenance | sarah | 
Fri 20th Jul 2007 12:02 pm
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