Over the past two weeks, the window contractors have worked hard trying to catch up with their delay. By the end of this week, we will have most of the 33 openings in the house finally closed. The only pieces missing will be the solid-wood doors that won’t be delivered and installed until the end of October.

The windows are all wood-framed with aluminium cladding on the oustide. We found this to be the best compromise for thermal insulation (wood frame on the inside) and minimum wear & tear and maintenance on the outside (aluminum cladding).

The windows that do not open are all triple-glazed 4/16/4/16/4 (each window pane is 4mm thick and there is a 16-mm-space in between filled with Argon gas). All of the other windows and doors with windows will be double-glazed 4/16/4.