First he knocked out the rest of the frame and the wood covering from the old window opening using a small sledge hammer like tool. It's a cross between a sledge hammer and a regular hammer, so about the size of a regular hammer but it brings the pain!!
Anyway, then he started the installing of the new window in two pieces, which means less grout and chance for leakage than if he built the window block by block here on site. He also cemented in all around the block frame, including the ledge which had huge gaps after I removed the wooden ledge. Then he took all of the old wood and crap with him!! Whoo-hooo! Bonus! Throwing away an 8 foot piece of plywood with nails sticking out all over is not fun in the city.
Here are some pics.
Rich from Linear Glass Block using his fist to hit the block to move it into place.
The finished ledge area. I'll be drywalling and tiling all of this.
The finished top. Very clean lines!!
The view from the hallway with the light on in the bathroom. I'm not sure if I'll expose that top line of glass with the vent pipe or furrow it out with dry wall. TBD.
Picture from the hallway without the light on and no flash. Natural light!! Whoo-hoo!!!
6 comments:
Nice! can't wait to see that finished!
pharaoh himself couldn't have asked for better progress
Wow! What a difference!
Can't wait...can only be 'till the end of the year maybe when I won't have to stumble down the spiral steps in the middle of the night.
Looks great - we've actually been talking about putting one of those in.
Thanks everyone. I'm really jacked about it. This morning it was really cool to look out into the hallway and see natural light pouring into the bathroom. Very warming!!!
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