Apertures, Pt. 1

The rainy season has now been long upon us which, although I generally enjoy, inflated my general anxiety this time round. We had spent many weeks with gaping apertures throughout the entire house, draped only by loose sheets of plastic which can only hold back so much.

 

I was quite literally crossing each day off the calendar until the installation date arrived for the rear-end doors and windows. Morning came, the installers called us at 7.00 and half an hour later they were onsite. It took a full working day, but thankfully it went mostly smoothly and just in time for the rain later that very same evening.

While we are bound by UCA rules to have wooden apertures for the facade, we could use PVC for the back.

Aside from keeping away the rain, the flapping plastic was very noisy on windy days. I was conscious of how disturbing it might have been to the neighbours, so thankfully (aside from a couple of windows in the facade) most of that is gone now.

We wanted to maintain a French-frame theme throughout, to compliment the overall style of the house. Quite happy with the result.

A special shoutout goes to Prodoor Malta for their fine work.