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THE FITTING OUT OF
CARLTON - THE WINDOWS
Links to other pages on the fitting
out of CARLTON
| CARLTON HAVING THE
WINDOWS FITTED Carlton was delivered as a hull already primed and the bottom blacked, but without windows. One of the first jobs is to fit the windows so that the boat is weather proof and can be worked on outside, i.e. at a normal mooring. The poly tunnel, where CARLTON will be until the windows are fitted has a high demand placed on it for painting jobs during the winter months. |
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The anodised external window frames
are measured and ordered to be quite a tight fit. If the window openings in
the hull have any slight irregularities they need to be removed with an
angle grinder. This image shows the window recess on the inside of the boat with the vertical strengthening steel reinforcement. |
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The internal hard wood window frame has been prpared individually to fit the steel recess and each particular window frame, this is where the skill of the boat fitters starts to show, as it is unlikely that any two wooden frames will be exactly the same. |
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external window frame has been placed into the window opening in the
hull. On the outside of the hull the screw holes in the frame are marked and the frame removed. Further Information on the type
of windows used in this fit-out can be found at the website of, |
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the frame removed the holes are drilled in the hull. |
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external window frame is not actually fixed to the steel of the hull. The fixing screw passes through the pre-drilled hole in the steel and is fixed to the internal wooden frame. You can see the screws being fixed from the outside, and during the operation the wooden frame is held in place from the inside. Before this final fixing a band of self adhesive rubber strip is applied between the inside of the external window frame and the side of the hull to ensure the fixing is waterproof. |
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A
fitted window, this being a window to a bathroom as it has frosted glass. Once you have fixed a "bathroom" window in a particular place that is where your bathroom will have to be, more or less. Unless you are going to cause yourself extra unnecessary work moving windows around. |
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It is not totally clear, but if you look closely, there is a rebate all around the wooden frame so that when the wooden veneered faced cladding ply is attached to the side of the hull, after insulation, the cladding surface and the surface of the wooden window frames will be flush. |
| Ashby
Boat Company, Canal Wharf, Stoke Golding, NUNEATON, Warwickshire CV13 6EY |
Tel.
01455 212671 Fax. 01455 213 255 Email - sales@ashbyboats.co.uk |
