She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

Well, lounge window actually. The joiner had made the unit to go in the alcove in his workshop and dropped it off into the garage last night. After prepping the space (hammering half an inch of plaster off one wall!) he asked me to give him a hand putting it into position. Whilst it went into the house through the back door without a hitch, it proved impossible to angle it through the doorway into the lounge without it jamming on the wall or ceiling. Solution one was to remove the loft access hatch and ladder to get more headroom but, although this helped a bit, the unit still proved to be too wide to go through the door into the lounge. After a bit more head scratching, it seemed the only solution was to remove the lounge window and bring the unit in that way. And a 2.4m x 1.2m double glazed unit was going to need professional help to take it out safely, and without it breaking.
Fortunately, the joiner was able to call in a favour from a local glazing firm. Whilst we were waiting for them, we reinstalled the loft ladder and hatch. It even fitted a bit better than before. Every cloud and all that!
When the glaziers arrived, it only took 25 minutes to remove the glass, bring the unit in and reinstall the glass. The picture shows the joiner just about to climb out of the window to help lift the - very heavy - piece of glass one of the glaziers is holding. And the large wooden object in the foreground is the source of all the trouble. As the joiner remarked, with the benefit of hindsight, it may have been easier to assemble it on site rather than in his workshop!
Still, it’s in position now and looks superb even in its “raw” state. Our job for the weekend will be to apply a few coats of varnish before the joiner returns to fit the mouldings around the edges to conceal the fixings. And with the plastering starting as well, it seems the finishing line may finally be in sight.