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Property refurbishment Hampstead Roof

New skylights with rain censers

Skylights

Work Continues on the roof and the new insulation has been installed, its very important to the customer that this house is insulated to the highest standards to keep energy usage down to a minimon.

I will be taking thermal images and posting just how the property performs. Back to the roof.

re-building of the chimney stacks

Re- building of chimney stacks

The new skylights are  completely electronic opening and closing on timers and closing automatically when it rains.

 

Property refurbishment Hampstead Roof

Roof In hampstead

The new roof going on

When you start a refurbishment and I men start not just start the paperwork because that starts around 6 month beforehand with the planing permission the archItect and the engineers, The project management on this job is down to me so I set out

the time line for the works.

We have removed all the old bricks and chimney pots ready to rebuild the chimney

Bricks being removed before rebuilding

We started on building project by striping the property out and removing the roof this was to deter squatters and thieves.

The next thing was to start rebuilding works on the roof.

We already knew that the brickwork was in a very bad state and the brickwork needed complete renovation bricks cut out and re pointing.