Butchers

Beautifully Restored Historic Shop Front

Along with the Shopfront replacement we also had the difficult in altering the inlet and exhaust ducting for the refrigeration and oven’s for this Shop. Again we were fortunate in working closely with the business owners in them closing the shop for a few days in order for the work to be carried out.

The Meatery had a pair of double doors within the Shopfront which mirrors that of Barnes Jewellers giving the Market Place Elevation of the Old Town Hall a nice symmetry.

 

To finish the top of the shopfronts a Flat Lead flashing was installed to protect the top of the Fascia Panel, this finish really completed the final look of the fronts mixing the traditional look with a modern feel. The Signwriting for each of the shopfronts was hand painted to meet the branding of each individual business while incorporating the Conservation Officers desire for them to look in keeping with the building. 

Alfie's Deli

Beautifully Restored Historic Shop Front

Alfie’s had only just moved into 2 Market Place when we commenced the project so they were finding their feet all while major works were going on around them. This shopfront was also the 1st to be replaced, fortunately we were able to work with Baz the owner of Alfies to agree a date where they would close for a few days in order for the shopfront to be replaced. We were able to install a dust and debris screen between the shop counter and where the works were being carried out in order to keep the 

The existing shopfront was of aluminium construction with large glazed panels. These presented some thinking during the removal as the glazed panels were so large and heavy but nothing plenty of hands on deck and glass lifters couldn’t sort.

Dave our Workshop lead had the intuitiveness to manufacture the shopfront in “Kit Form” this meant that the shopfront could be broken down, manufactured individually dry fitted in the workshop to check all dimensions then broken back down and transported to site. This gave us 2 main advantages which were: firstly that the shopfront was easily transportable and stored but also meant that from a security point of view the old shopfront could be removed and the new installed to a position where the premises was completely secure overnight.

Onsite the shopfront components could be fixed together, the stallriser, window frames, door frame, daisy grille, soffit and fascia, pilasters and top all fixed in position. Another time saving job was to pre cut all of the glazing beads so that when the glazers came to install the 10.8mm toughened glass panels into the shopfront the beads could be fixed in position straight away, again this enabled the security and weather tightness of the shopfront overnight.

Dave also pre-hung the door in it’s new frame in the workshop so all ironmongery was pre-drilled which meant that the door was easily fitted on site.

The decorators also Aluminium primed, undercoated and applied a 1st top coat to all aspects of the shopfront in the workshop so once fitted and in position there was only the need to touch up any marks during the installation with a final top coat once the installation had been completed. 

Beautiful Glazed Canopy

Beautifully Restored Historic Shop Fronts

As part of the overall project a large portion of it was the creation of a glazed canopy to the Market Place Elevation of the Old Town Hall which would create a covered area in front of the new shopfronts.

The removal of the existing canopy in itself caused issues due to a large amount of steel beams being connected to a large internal steel beam within the Old Town Hall. Due to the fact the Market Place is a bustling and busy public space the need to protect the public and cordon off the work area’s while maintaining access to the businesses was challenging. It was decided that certain parts of this removal were carried out after working hours so the area was quieter and the shops unaffected by the removal work

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When it came to the installation of the new design, 9 separate padstones had to be excavated to a depth of approximately 1200mm, each area had to be CAT scanned beforehand due to the presence of underground Telecoms, Gas and Electric services. The building inspector was then called in order to sign off the ground conditions for concreting.

Once the concrete had been poured and cured it was time to install the 9 columns these came pre finished to a RAL colour chosen by the project management team, this meant that a lot of care had to be taken with the fitting in order not to damage the finish.

With the columns bolted in position the eaves beams were bolted together and to the top of the columns with raking steels bolted back to the building to make sure the structure was secure. This was carried out in meticulous detail to the Structural Engineer design. 

The next stage was to fit the Architectural Metalwork onto the Canopy steelwork. This was cast aluminium frieze at eaves level and at flashing level as well as column castings at low and high level which transformed the industrial looking steelwork into a stunning architectural structure.

The final stages of the canopy installation was the fitting of Bespoke Architectural Glazing. Carre Heritage spoke with numerous companies and decided upon The Standard Patent Glazing Company, working with their surveyors on the final site measure it was found that from end to end (over 30 metres) the steel eaves beams were parallel to the building and within 7mm out of a 15mm tolerance allowance! 

The glazing panels were 6mm toughened glass that had a solar film applied, the glazing bars were powder coated to match the colour of the metal work of the canopy.



Finally the powder coated aluminium ogee guttering and rainwater pipes were fitted ensuring the canopy was fully weatherproof and directing all rainfall into the existing surface water system.