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kitfit1 said:
He is @Bazza-spark. In fact he is in the middle of doing a massive window build for an old schoolhouse. If he sends me any pics (with his permission) i will post them in this thread.
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I may well know the building. He works in the area I was grew up in.
 
Bazza-spark said:
I may well know the building. He works in the area I was grew up in.
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Well, if you do know the building this may confirm or confuse you lol :D. Not spoken to butcher today, but i'm shure he won't mind me quoting this part of his pm and i'm shure he will read it here even though he is not here anymore.

"I've only done three kitchens this year. Almost everything else has been bench joinery - a lot of bespoke doors for some reason. I'm currently, however, part-way through a huge job (the biggest one I've ever done in fact) building twelve vast 18-pane casement windows for a grade 2 listed former schoolhouse. These things are ornate and complex to build with a loony-tunes opening mechanism, and the scale of the job is quite overwhelming tbh. Since it's listed, everything has to be identical to the rotted-out originals - cue the first 12 full days spent machining almost 2km of mouldings, sash beads and so on. They'll be magnificent when they're finally done, but it's a herculean task, most of which is monumentally repetitive. A big-ticket job though, and I asked for 50% upfront since I reckoned on almost 3 months work. So I'm happy to be brain-dead. This was realistically a job for a CNC-equipped factory (and I told them that), but they were insistent that they wanted these things hand-built by a local joiner. I got recommended to them by the local Conservation Officer too - so that was nice, and here I am."
 
kitfit1 said:
Well, if you do know the building this may confirm or confuse you lol :D. Not spoken to butcher today, but i'm shure he won't mind me quoting this part of his pm and i'm shure he will read it here even though he is not here anymore.

"I've only done three kitchens this year. Almost everything else has been bench joinery - a lot of bespoke doors for some reason. I'm currently, however, part-way through a huge job (the biggest one I've ever done in fact) building twelve vast 18-pane casement windows for a grade 2 listed former schoolhouse. These things are ornate and complex to build with a loony-tunes opening mechanism, and the scale of the job is quite overwhelming tbh. Since it's listed, everything has to be identical to the rotted-out originals - cue the first 12 full days spent machining almost 2km of mouldings, sash beads and so on. They'll be magnificent when they're finally done, but it's a herculean task, most of which is monumentally repetitive. A big-ticket job though, and I asked for 50% upfront since I reckoned on almost 3 months work. So I'm happy to be brain-dead. This was realistically a job for a CNC-equipped factory (and I told them that), but they were insistent that they wanted these things hand-built by a local joiner. I got recommended to them by the local Conservation Officer too - so that was nice, and here I am."
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There are loads of large listed old buildings in the Buxton area, some are ex-schools.

I'm sure he will do an awesome job.
 
Recently purchased a new house.

In the Bathroom is a shower - It works fine, but as we now aproach winter I am finding it more and more difficult to heat the water up as it comes through. Is there any reason for the water not being hot?
 
Whiplash said:
Recently purchased a new house.

In the Bathroom is a shower - It works fine, but as we now aproach winter I am finding it more and more difficult to heat the water up as it comes through. Is there any reason for the water not being hot?
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Posting a new thread on the plumbers forum may well be the best way forward. :oops:
 
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