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| The sash windows were in a bad way and had to be fully stripped back, i.e. remove panes, break down into individual parts, strip paint, replace rotten parts, preserve, undercoat and then re-assemble - a big and slow job. The green stuuf on this wall is Metalex - a timber preservative which was slapped onto everything. Much of the wood was also coated in Timberloc - a wood hardner and antifungacide. These walls and windows will be right for at least another 120 years. |
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| We did this job in September, and it was getting down to -10oC at night. I was sleeping in there! You can see us beginning to put the new support timbers (the lighter coloured wood) in now. |