Conservatory rebuild.

Before lockdown, The Continental was in use every day. This really makes it difficult to do ‘big jobs’ without closing the venue. The last thing we want is to stop serving beer! One quite massive job that was has been on the list for some time was to give the conservatories a refresh.

The conservatory nearest the river is on a aluminium construction. So that one mainly just needed the old flaky paint stripping off. The other was quite a different story.

The second conservatory mimics the other but is built quite differently. Firstly there is an inner steel frame which is completely hidden from view. Then the external elements are timer. Over the past 10 years more and more of this timer had been replaced with filler. Knowing that the structure itself was sound, as the steel frame takes all the weight, we wen’t at all concerned about it’s stability. However, it really was beginning to look a tatty, sorry state of affairs.

Lockdown provided us with the unusual opportunity for Gary, Steve and Stewart to completely strip back this conservatory and splice in fresh timber where it was needed. The result is a like-new feel with a fancy new paint-job. Do you like the new colour?