Aligning Steel and Timber and Aluminium

Reinserting the windows and refixing the panels has proved immensely frustrating and time-consuming.

I naively assumed that using the old holes for the window tops, and ensuring that the uprights are in the same place as the old ones would cause everything to line up correctly, but it did not!

Each window has to line up with the one adjacent, and each panel must hang straight fom the bottom of its window. Also the mouldings fitted below the windows (see left) must line up with the stripe on the door (refitted so that I could check).

The timber in the steel uprights has to protrude to the same extent as the timber horizontals or the panels will not lie flat. The edge of each window and panel should come to the mid-point of each wooden upright.

The bottom of the panels (including the 2 that are hinged in the middle) have to line up so that the bottom moulding "looks right".

Get one right, and all the others go wrong...

At last Bay 1 looks right - (for the moment...)

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