aluminium

Back for 2017

Finished Product, Work in progress

Well we have come back (the 9th for George and I with the rest of the staff fully back on january 23rd 2017).  I’ve been a little slack in uploading new images of what we have been doing so today here are a few random images of what has been going on the past few months.

 

Replacing damaged colonial bars with new ones.

5 panel clear anodise bifold door. Hawkesbury suite from ALSPEC.

5 panel clear anodise bifold door. Hawkesbury suite from ALSPEC.

Casement windows with putty glazed sashes.

Casement windows with putty glazed sashes.

Hanging the cedar gate we had made earlier

Hanging the cedar gate we had made earlier

cedar doorframe

cedar doorframe, made to clients specs.

removal of old timber lift up window, replaced with aluminium double slider

removal of old timber lift up window, replaced with aluminium double slider

Pearl White Aluminium Sliding Window. A common but great style of window we make. Cathedral glass

Cedar Doorframes, no sills.

Cedar Doorframes, no sills.

A small selection of the variety of work we have carried out recently. Ill try make a better effort and post more frequently.

regards Peter @ THE WINDOW MAN

Primrose aluminium sliding patio door with flydoor

Finished Product

Nothing fancy, but a very common type of sliding door we make;

this one is 2100 high x 1800 wide (pretty standard sizing). Clear laminate glass and a flydoor.  Assembled and tested in our steel jig to ensure squareness and smooth operation.

Patio / Sliding door

Patio / Sliding door

Probably the most common sliding door we make.

Cheap chinese awning sashes vs The Window Man Sash

Finished Product

Chinese products are changing the building landscape here in Australia.

Some of the products are world class, and superb. the vast majority isnt.

A builder brought in some aluminium awning sashes he got from China. I am not sure they are even legal.

When you are building or renovating a house, make sure you are comparing apples with apples.

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Aluminium Awning Window

Finished Product

We make a fair few of these style aluminium windows.  Commercial frame (101mm x 44.5mm) with an awning sash and lockable whitco chain winder.  Fly screen on inside.

The awning has no hinges or stays, and instead has a hook on the head and a matching hook on the top of the sash.  No moving on this turning point means nothing will wear out and break (as do hinges and non-friction stays after years of use)

Thought id take a photo before delivering it to a job site this morning.

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Arches; timber and aluminium + glazing some sashes.

Work in progress

Today I have done a bit of everything; helping the lads out on all these odd jobs for the start of the year. Always with a camera in hand, here is some of the things we are doing today.

 

Here we are making a large arched window with colonial bars, top down photo showing us setting up the template etc.

Here we are making a large arched window with colonial bars, top down photo showing us setting up the template etc.

Glazing some sashes with colonial bars.... all in cedar.

Glazing some sashes with colonial bars…. all in cedar.

Here is mill (raw) alumimium commercial frame we have engineered to a curve. we will then make a window from it.

Here is mill (raw) alumimium commercial frame we have engineered to a curve. we will then make a window from it.

Paperbark shopfront windows and pivot doors

Work in progress

Here we are installing some commercial fixed frames as well as a doorframe +pair of pivot doors.

All in paperbark, with subsills and laminate glass.

shop front. commercial aluminium fixed lites in paperbark powdercoat

shop front. commercial aluminium fixed lites in paperbark powdercoat

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Black Aluminium Sliding window

Finished Product

We make so many of these or variations of, that i rarely take photos of them.
20151124_131426This is a residential aluminium window, powdercoat black with white translucent glass.

it has a horizontal sliding section up top and a fixed lite below.

Mill aluminium ready for powdercoater

Work in progress
Mill (raw) aluminium, ready for delivery to the powdercoater for painting as "NOTRE DAME "

Mill (raw) aluminium, ready for delivery to the powdercoater for painting as “NOTRE DAME “

 

This is what windows and doors look like after being cut, docked, machined from the raw extrusions. next stop the powdercoater to paint them – in this case a colour called NOTRE DAME will be used. then we get the painted extrusions back, check they are ok and then assemble them ready for the next step after that – glazing.