Geneseek

The first half of this refurbishment was bringing the box gutters and parapets up to scratch so that the fit out and remaining works could be completed without water damage. With heavily rusted and failing gutters, parapets and downpipes, we supplied and installed 110m of box gutters and 200m of parapet flashings. Because we are championing training and improvement within out business, we did get a few leaks which were identified at testing and easily rectified.

Our apprentices learnt how to make stop ends, cut in sumps, droppers and overflows as well as install parapet flashings in situ to minimise the need for extra joints. We are very grateful to have worked with Venn Constructions on this job and for their understanding that apprentices have to learn as well. This was our first job with Venn’s and we continue to have a very close working relationship with this fantastic group of people! And yes, the boss was on this job, sweating it out in the middle of January 2018 with the guys! I’m very proud of the team.

The second part of this job was to install trade waste, rough in, drainage and fit off. The trade waste and part of the rough-in was done under the building which you can see in one of the photos was done in difficult conditions often times crawling or on hand and knees. The other part of the rough-in had to be chased into blockwork.