Sash window overhaul, Repair Care and full decorations at The Other House, Covent Garden, London, for Ellmers Construction — commercial decorating.
We were appointed by Ellmers Construction to overhaul the sash windows at The Other House in Covent Garden. The package was external: sash window overhaul, repairs, Repair Care timber repairs, and full decorations. That is the job we came to do, and that is the job we finished.
External sash overhaul on a Covent Garden hospitality building is commercial painting and decorating against a public street — work we take across London and the South East.
Covent Garden is a public, working street. External sash work here is judged from the pavement as much as it is judged on a snag list. The windows have to operate, the repairs have to take decoration, and the finished elevation has to look like one piece of work rather than a run of patched frames.
The Other House is a hospitality building in Covent Garden. We worked for Ellmers Construction as the decorating and window-overhaul trade on the external sash package. An overhaul is not a paint-only instruction. The sashes have to be taken through repair and eased so they run, then decorated so the repair and the existing timber read as one finish.
Repair Care is part of this package because sash timber fails in patches, not as a uniform board. Where timber needed rebuilding, we used Repair Care rather than dressing over decay and hoping the decoration would hide it. Full decorations followed the overhaul so we were not painting sashes that still needed to be eased, cut back or rebuilt.
The work on this job was sash window overhaul, repairs, Repair Care and full decorations. We reported that package to Ellmers Construction and closed it as one elevation, not as a set of separate visits.
The client relationship sat with Ellmers Construction. Their site team set the sequence, received the queries and closed the package. We did not take a separate brief from the street or from the end operator. External window work on a hospitality building has to sit inside the main contractor's protection, access and handover rules, and that is how we ran it.
Working on this site meant treating the windows as both joinery and elevation. Sashes come off for overhaul and go back into the same boxes. While they are out, the opening has to stay weathertight. While they are being decorated, the finish has to be kept clean until it is hard enough to handle. Covent Garden does not give you a quiet yard. Materials, waste and access have to be planned so the pavement and the rest of the site can keep moving.
Repair Care is a timber repair system, not a filler. Failed sections are cut back to sound material and rebuilt so the repair will take a full decoration. The point of using the system on this job was to leave a substrate that would hold the finish, not a soft edge that would show through after the first season of weather.
Full decorations on an overhaul come last. Box, sash, beads and sill are prepared and finished after the mechanical work is done. Paint first and ease later and you mark the work. We finished after the window had been repaired and was running.
External decoration in this part of London also means control of dust, debris and wet paint next to a public footway. We worked inside the protection Ellmers Construction set up, kept the drop zones clean, and handed each stage back in a condition the next trade — or the street — could live with.
This is the external sash package we take on across London: overhaul, repair, Repair Care where the timber needs it, and full decorations, closed as one piece of work.
We are CHAS and SSIP accredited and 100% RIDDOR-free.
We were appointed by Ellmers Construction to overhaul the sash windows at The Other House in Covent Garden. The package was external: sash window overhaul, repairs, Repair Care timber repairs, and full decorations. That is the job we came to do, and that is the job we finished.
External sash overhaul on a Covent Garden hospitality building is commercial painting and decorating against a public street — work we take across London and the South East.
Covent Garden is a public, working street. External sash work here is judged from the pavement as much as it is judged on a snag list. The windows have to operate, the repairs have to take decoration, and the finished elevation has to look like one piece of work rather than a run of patched frames.
The Other House is a hospitality building in Covent Garden. We worked for Ellmers Construction as the decorating and window-overhaul trade on the external sash package. An overhaul is not a paint-only instruction. The sashes have to be taken through repair and eased so they run, then decorated so the repair and the existing timber read as one finish.
Repair Care is part of this package because sash timber fails in patches, not as a uniform board. Where timber needed rebuilding, we used Repair Care rather than dressing over decay and hoping the decoration would hide it. Full decorations followed the overhaul so we were not painting sashes that still needed to be eased, cut back or rebuilt.
The work on this job was sash window overhaul, repairs, Repair Care and full decorations. We reported that package to Ellmers Construction and closed it as one elevation, not as a set of separate visits.
The client relationship sat with Ellmers Construction. Their site team set the sequence, received the queries and closed the package. We did not take a separate brief from the street or from the end operator. External window work on a hospitality building has to sit inside the main contractor's protection, access and handover rules, and that is how we ran it.
Working on this site meant treating the windows as both joinery and elevation. Sashes come off for overhaul and go back into the same boxes. While they are out, the opening has to stay weathertight. While they are being decorated, the finish has to be kept clean until it is hard enough to handle. Covent Garden does not give you a quiet yard. Materials, waste and access have to be planned so the pavement and the rest of the site can keep moving.
Repair Care is a timber repair system, not a filler. Failed sections are cut back to sound material and rebuilt so the repair will take a full decoration. The point of using the system on this job was to leave a substrate that would hold the finish, not a soft edge that would show through after the first season of weather.
Full decorations on an overhaul come last. Box, sash, beads and sill are prepared and finished after the mechanical work is done. Paint first and ease later and you mark the work. We finished after the window had been repaired and was running.
External decoration in this part of London also means control of dust, debris and wet paint next to a public footway. We worked inside the protection Ellmers Construction set up, kept the drop zones clean, and handed each stage back in a condition the next trade — or the street — could live with.
This is the external sash package we take on across London: overhaul, repair, Repair Care where the timber needs it, and full decorations, closed as one piece of work.
We are CHAS and SSIP accredited and 100% RIDDOR-free.
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