Conservatory Information from your Nottingham and East Midlands Supplier
Building work
New Conservatories and replacement windows and doors can often mean more than simply installing new frame work or frame sets.
This is often not the case; there is a lot of variations on design and individual requirements that can involve building work, plastering, plumbing and electrical work. In our extensive experience we have completed many different variations of this work to ensure you can get the finished installation you require.
Brickwork removal:
A popular alteration to the rear elevation of a property is to turn a flat window into a patio door. If you intend to keep the existing width of the frame and just remove the brickwork below this is quite a straightforward installation. The external walls are cut out, the internal walls removed by hand, the new internal reveals are plastered and a new tread board is fitted. When patio doors are fitted radiators often need to be re-sited or capped of.
We often remove brickwork on windows for various reasons: to let in more light, to get a better view of the garden, or simply a design change. The most popular way of doing this is to remove one or two courses of brickwork below the window.
If you would like the aperture width extending it becomes a slightly more complicated installation. This involves installing a new lintel; either catnik or concrete lintels are used depending on the installation.
New brickwork:
Windows and doors are often reduced in size, possible reasons for this could be to accommodate a proposed change inside the room or to give a brick pillar to build a new conservatory from.
Loose brickwork:
One of the things our technical surveyor will be looking for when he measures replacement windows and doors is loose brickwork above the frame. As a precautionary measure we will often install flat steels above new windows to provide additional support above the window for any loose brickwork.