Architect’s Outline Specification - how closely does this need to be followed?

[RonnyRaygun]

A good designer should have steered the OP away from this design or the two vertical posts should have been employed more effectively to eat into those big masonry returns and make the window much wider.

I guess if the roof is coming off and the steelwork and window are both being remade, now is the perfect time to think about reducing the size of the returns and having a larger glazed panel

 

[^woody^]

OMG, just when you think it's all going to be sorted ........

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

I guess if the roof is coming off and the steelwork and window are both being remade, now is the perfect time to think about reducing the size of the returns and having a larger glazed panel

Yes I wondered that but the builder isn't gonna entertain that cost which (we don't know) might have to include new pads for those columns etc and chopping the wall back, inserting more ties at the jamb etc. I don't see why the roof would have to come off anyway, probably the builder scaremongering. Perhaps the OP likes the slim window as it is anyway, each to their own .....

Bit odd there are rooflights too, there'll be tons of light already.

 

[RonnyRaygun]

Yes I wondered that but the builder isn't gonna entertain that cost which (we don't know) might have to include new pads for those columns etc and chopping the wall back, inserting more ties at the jamb etc. I don't see why the roof would have to come off anyway, probably the builder scaremongering. Perhaps the OP likes the slim window as it is anyway, each to their own .....

Bit odd there are rooflights too, there'll be tons of light already.

I agree re. the roof coming off. They just need to prop the ridge and remove and replace the steel. Won't need pads for the posts - loads will be next to nothing - as said earlier in the thread I doubt the posts were even needed for such a small span, although they might be if the opening was widened...