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Simple answer, yes. Don’t worry about it, standard install timescale.

That would have been @Bitpipe who used Gaulhofer external venetian blinds supplied by myself. Lift and slide doors are very easy to operate and slide very easy.

It's a personal preference to be honest, I'm a tilt and turn man tbh. Not sure I follow the reasoning behind this thinking, if the glass is obscured it won't matter. If you're referencing the fact side hung you have a gap when open vertically compared to bottom gap for top hung. Just remember you can open a side hung slightly for ventilation and still lock it in place that will generally not have a visible gap to view through. For inward opening, you would always aim to open up towards a wall, for outward side hung, think of the direction of wind and direction you walk to open the window. Are you in Scotland? If yes, nothing you can do. If not, rules are slightly different south of the border. In that if the house doesn't have them now, you don't need to replace the windows with ones that do.

The simplest solution, is a door handle extender. Works on the same principle of leverage and longer gives more leverage and easier to operate. They ain't the prettiest but do work. Whether it helps your mum is a different question. You may need to buy one and try it before buying more. https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=door+handle+extender&ref=nb_sb_noss

Just returned from a client visit last week. He replaced all the glass we supplied in his orangery with glass with integrated electrical blinds (not from us). Some work, some don’t and he now wanted us to put the glass back in (new order obviously). I hate them. Thanks’ happy to help @puntloos

Your detail drawing above is a pretty standard behind the ingo fixing. Strapping back to the inner blockwork. It’s more a case of using the right window for this. Nordan doesn’t sound like the right option on this occassion.

They do, they make thousands of glass units a week, something just went wrong. Are we annoyed? Of course but what can we do about it? Yes, waited 12 weeks, these are being remade within 10 days as high priority.

It's curved and too high for standard transport and can only be transported side ways. It's packaged by the glass supplier, so they know what they're doing. Just one of those things that happens but shouldn't.

All destroyed Yip, was due to arrive on Thursday ?

When £40k worth of curved glass (x4) doesn’t even make it out from the glass suppliers yard ?

“If” you get into difficulty with the application, Richard Hawkes of Hawkes architecture is very experienced with paragraph 80. Good luck with the build and welcome to the forum.

Window needs adjusted, sitting a little to low and the gasket is catching the keep. Just needs lifted, pressure might be a bit too much and may need released a little. As for the handles, not 100% on Internorm sliders these days but if you look at the handle either top or bottom of the handle. You “may” see a little grub screw that needs tightened.

We all f’up tbh but it’s not about the f’ups (although we’d all like for them not to happen) but how they’re dealt with that tells the story.

Very typical of an standard English detail. Sit it further inside. A good early starting point at this detailed stage, is work out where the dew point is. Then you know where the window needs to sit.

Have a look at the latch and check if it has a little switch. This is the day/night mode and can be manually activated.

Problem with just brackets and no other support. Is the threshold will flex. It should have a solid base but when that’s not possible, then the brackets are the only option. Doesn’t matter whose door it is, it’s the same principle for all. However, I’d be looking to introduced additional brackets and what other support could be introduced. What they appear to be proposing sounds fine but you have to question the detail in the first instance.

Looking forward to seeing this.

A bit of both on the pricing. Yeah they’re importers just like ourselves.

Just to help you out, it's the Doleta window system, the calculator pricing is questionable on some of the items I just priced up.

TP600, 15 year warranty, 25 year life expectancy and BBA certified.

Yes, pretty much in every installers bag.

You should have a WhatsApp message and link ?

Timber? We'll shave off as much as we can all around, between 3mm & 10mm if need be dependant on the system and then reseal the cut timber. Aluminium? panic alongside the client, frame supplier and architect.

To be honest, tolerances will vary dependant on the construction/installation method. Fitting between brickwork, then 5mm all around is ideal, 10mm all around verging on too big. We will normally go 5mm, screw fixed through the frame (screws hidden behind keeps). This allows for a nice mastic finish / flashing finish or a sleeker compriband finish. 10mm all around is standard on a new build timber frame as an example. I can't speak for all suppliers but manufacturers have a +/- tolerance as well, 3mm for example per window. So when you have a window with 3 units coupled for example, that can deduct 9mm from the tolerances over the width and leave you with 11mm in width. Then you have the project I'm doing this week in Glasgow built with in CLT and every opening is 5mm narrower all round in width and height. It's a tight fit, really tight fit - as we agreed a 5mm tolerance all around (aluminium Schuco windows). Everyone has tolerances and when they work against you most people blame the window manufacturer/supplier and it's not always the case.

I can tell you I know from experience that it’s not. It’s not with any supplier, their is always something and we all have to re-attend.