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Is there an all singing all dancing window maker on Hydra?
I would really like to find a carpenter on Hydra who makes "comprehensive" window units. By that I mean windows in:
- Treated hard wood from a sustainable source (so it doesn't have the horrid, fat white worms in it)
- With shutters on the inside (to conform with Hydra's building regs)
- Then double glazed windows (to cut drafts, sound and condensation)
- Then an integral pull down fly-screen roller blind on the very outside (because I am sick of stapling flyscreen mesh to the existing frames each year to deter the mozzies during the summer and worse, the flies in the spring and autumn).
So far all I have found is the basic "this is how we always do it" variety of windows being supplied by carpenters. If you want a high performance window such as described above, you have to go to the mainland and run the risk of the local workforce sulking because you didn't use their "service". But I am sure that somewhere on the island there is a carpenter who has kept up with modern requirements as well as being culturally in tune with the island's preservation order.
If anyone knows of a supplier on Hydra, I'd appreciate knowing.