Hello all,
Happy Sunday!
We are currently building a loft conversion and rear extension. For the loft, we will be fitting a 3m wide (1.1 m high) piece of glass blaustrade that weighs 170kg - while the installer previously says that they can bring this up with more manpower, turns out on the day they say it can't be done and we will now need to look at solutions to bring this up.
Given that we currently have scaffolding around the whole dormer, it seems that the crane is the feasible solution ( though not sure if that's really an overkill for a single piece of glass. ). The height from the ground up to the dormer ( past the scaffolding) is more than 8m so the SLA25 might not be feasible.
Another really annoying problem is with the current setup of the scaffolding - the current scaffolding setup has 3 poles that is directly in front of where the glass blaustrade sits, ( see the picture with the light lighted bits), though not sure we were can manoeuvre it around to bring it in. The opening for the area for installation is also quite small as well.
What are your thoughts on a possible solution for this? Should we wait till we take the scaffolding is down before installing it? But would we need to keep the scaffolding in order to install the glass from outside?
Currently the scaffolding is also holding us up for the GF extension as well, which we are desperate to get started.
Other than massively pounding myself inside for having taken simply trusted the window installer's initial recommendation that it can be hoisted up by hand and ordered the glass, what would be your recommendation for me to do about this situation?
Thank you so much, and have a nice day!
