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Posts Tagged ‘windows’

Refurb update: the chills and heat pumps

I am currently writing this sat next to an electric heater wearing a slanket. For those unaware of the unexpected Christmas phenomenon that was the slanket it’s a blanket with sleeves. Yes, you look like you’re in a straight-jacket, and it may well have been a seasonal gimmick, but for dwellers of leaky Victorian houses [...]

The green refurbishment, part four

Continuing the series of guest posts on a refurbing a Victorian house in Hackney. Joint client Bronwen Manby takes up the story, highlighting window drama, working with her brother the builder and questioning the point of party wall surveyors
So of course the ‘extreme refurb’ is over budget and behind on timetable, but
not drastically so – [...]