The breaking of the glassNext step is pulling out the old wire-reinforced glass. Surprise, surprise: it was double-glazed all along. It came out without much effort. Then I used the big grinder with a metal cutting blade to cut the frame down into managable pieces which I hauled off to Mas Moury in nearby Pescadoires. All the guys over there have odd little ironic smiles. The old man, André, owns the place and quite a lot of Pescadoires to boot. The guy in the office is a civil engineer who used to do big steelworking contracts in foreign countries. He gave me a whole euro for the metal and I bought another sheet of plywood and some more rebar: Mrs Snoutsworthy decided the terrasse needed to be widened by the width of one window frame.
The cutting of the groove
Next step is chopping a channel into the the far (railway embankment) wall to support the other end of the slab. I ventured out with the gas powered grinder machine at 10 am on a Sunday and fired through the layout groove.
A bit dusty...
I started on the channelling with a small jackhammer but soon found myself on the way to Robert's house to get the next bigger one.
Next step: cleaning out the groove, dropping the window, forming the end.
