House build

[ianrauk]

It's looking stunning

 

[Colin Grigson]

It's looking stunning

Thank you Ian

 

[T4tomo]

nice finish on the bathrooms etc. very swish.

I also like the way the basin can double a baby bath when the grandkids are visiting, very useful and saves a lot of bending!

 

[Colin Grigson]

nice finish on the bathrooms etc. very swish.

I also like the way the basin can double a baby bath when the grandkids are visiting, very useful and saves a lot of bending!

Thank you T4tomo

 

[Colin Grigson]

It’s always important to get your priorities right … to that end the bikes have been moved and stored in our hall - slightly ahead of finishing the bedrooms and sitting room but the important stuff must be done first

 

[Colin Grigson]

The glass team were fitting handrails / guards today to the stairwell and balconies … too dark for balcony pics but here’s the stairs finished … the children can move in now that there’s not a hole from first floor down to ground …

 

[ColinJ]

I'm sure that everybody involved knows their stuff, but it amazes me that those panes of glass are strong enough to stand a significant lateral force at the unsupported top corners!

 

[Colin Grigson]

I'm sure that everybody involved knows their stuff, but it amazes me that those panes of glass are strong enough to stand a significant lateral force at the unsupported top corners!

Thank you Colin, the panes are almost 2cm thick and laminated, like you say we have to assume they know their jobs … only time will tell I suppose - I’m more concerned with keeping them clean at the moment

 

[bikingdad90]

Usually depends where you hit them. A large blunt wide area blow and they are likely to be ok but hit them in a very concentrated manner like a pin head and they usually shatter. It’s why you see escape hammers with a point on them.

 

[newts]

Usually depends where you hit them. A large blunt wide area blow and they are likely to be ok but hit them in a very concentrated manner like a pin head and they usually shatter. It’s why you see escape hammers with a point on them.

With laminated you have a plastic interlayer to hold the integrity of the panel if there is a shatter.

 

[ColinJ]

I was thinking of the leverage of the glass acting at the fixing holes at the bottom of each pane.

 

[Alex321]

I was thinking of the leverage of the glass acting at the fixing holes at the bottom of each pane.

Those look like pretty solid fixings.

 

[Slick]

I was thinking of the leverage of the glass acting at the fixing holes at the bottom of each pane.

Give me a lever long enough and I can lift the world.

 

[ColinJ]

Those look like pretty solid fixings.

It isn't the fixings that I was thinking about - it was the forces concentrated by those pretty solid fixings into the edges of the holes in the glass.

We wouldn't want something like this to happen to the glass...



(Yes, I realise that those wacky Chinese walkway builders had faked the broken glass! )

 

[T4tomo]

Usually depends where you hit them. A large blunt wide area blow and they are likely to be ok but hit them in a very concentrated manner like a pin head and they usually shatter. It’s why you see escape hammers with a point on them.

luckily children rarely have sharp pointed escape hammers attached to their heads/ bodies etc.