The huge windows of our ‘panorama’ house are great.

But we’re not sure that we really need such a big window in the bathroom.  Given you can’t even see through it.  We’d rather have a shower.  But the window is in the way.  So we decided to halve the size of the window.

Before

During

The white material is a wall membrane, a windproof, vapour permeable layer, in this case Ampatop Aero.

The flashing (the lead strip under the frame) was attached to the underside of the old window frame, so was damaged.  But it’s a nice piece of the original house, with the bottom edge cut to a pattern to match the tiles.  We noticed the flats opposite have a similar but different pattern, matching their tiles!  So this was repaired, and the window reveals plastered, in preparation for the new frame.

The old window sill was in a poor state, so I took it to the local community wood recycling project who copied it to make a new one from an old piece of door frame – good job!

After

Can’t wait for the super-duper new windows at the end of March!

Need to get on with preparing for their arrival …