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<\/a><\/p>\nAnother company had inspected the same windows and declared all eight on the northern aspect were in need of full replacement at a cost of \u00a343,000 \u2013 replacing the three panes has so far solved the problem and delivered a saving of over \u00a342,900 to a happy PCC Treasurer.<\/p>\n
The windows attract the heat of the sun resulting in quite marked distortion which had\u00a0I assume lead\u00a0to the other company recommending their replacement as the cause of the leak. Distortion is not an issue whilst they continue not to leak and I would aways leave them in place. The survey revealed that\u00a0in this case the water ingress was from an obvious source with\u00a0one holed pane.<\/p>\n
\u2018I was on the roof at St Swithun\u2019s shortly after you had been there admiring what you had done.\u2019<\/p>\n Edward Tozer – PCC Treasurer<\/strong> of Icknield Way Villages<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can read more about St Swithun\u2019s here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0–\u00a0the church is part of the same group I have worked on previously – the unusual story of that work can be found here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Water dripping onto the front pew at St Swithun\u2019s Church in Great Chishill made it was clear there was a problem with the high level windows . Clambering up onto the roof allowed an inspection which soon revealed a series of cracked and holed panes directly above the wet pew probably as a result of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current_projects","category-gallery","category-portfolio_our_stained_glass","category-stained_glass_restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"St_Swithun's_after-stained-glass-restoration\"](\"https:\/\/kettonglass-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/St_Swithuns_after-stained-glass-restoration.jpg\" "\\"St_Swithun's_after-stained-glass-restoration\\"")
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