As a surprise yesterday afternoon at 2.30 PM already a pickup truck from the window company arrived with 5 workers and our aluminum sliding doors and windows. All in parts to be fully installed into the door and window spaces we already prepared. It took the men till nearly 6.30 PM to place and fix.
The aluminum is covered with a protecting foil. We keep this in place till the exterior (tiling) and interior (plastering) is finished.
We ordered special (thicker) aluminum and strengthened 6mm black tinted glass. Both higher quality than basically used in Thailand and much stronger after our experience of around one month ago with the hurricane.
A small aluminum rainwater protection profile will be placed above three top-hung windows. Two bedroom windows on the north-side and, although under a future sun protection roof, the kitchen window on the west-side.
The sliding bathroom window is installed with frosted glass.
The small openings on the back side and on both sides of the entrance will get half glass blocks.
Why black tinted glass? We also have this type of glass in doors and windows of the TED's and the two guest pyramids. Just to protect against the extreme bright (sun) light and UV. It works as a kind of sunglasses, creates a peaceful inner atmosphere and is a lot calmer on the eyes. It also supports energy saving in relation to the use of the air conditioning units to be installed later.
As the pictures made from the inside of todays blog shows, it does not make dark inside at all.
All the windows and doors are prepared to install mosquito screens already. We wait with installing those screens till the construction work is all done.
The future back aluminum sliding door and the wooden front entrance doors and windows are not in yet. We will make a temporary structure to close this spaces till the roofs are totally finished. After that we will install the wooden frames and stained glass door/windows.
We hope this all protects in the best possible way against, or at least to diminish, damage because of new storms now. We will go on to continue closing the roofs now.
At the moment the doors & windows firm arrived, we were just working on the barge boards and roof trim tiles at the gable roof. Sealing against leakage and placing the first barge (end roof trim). Actually we broke the first one so we need to order a new one because we ordered only the necessary two we needed.
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Frans & Phatsamon
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