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Classroom Knock-through in Birmingham

Classroom Knock-through in Birmingham

Client: Little Adventurers Nursery
Value: £22k

Little Adventurers Nursery is a popular and busy nursery, who contacted us looking to knock-through some walls between classrooms. The purpose was to maximize the child-to-staff ratio along with some other modifications to milk prep stations and new infant sized toilets.

Knock-throughs and modifications

The main difficulty with this project was to minimize the disruption to a busy working nursery. Because the nursery is in use Monday to Friday 8am – 6pm all year round the only option was to carry out the work over weekends.

The client had 6x classrooms and they wanted to knock through 3x openings of various sizes to enable a better child to staff ratio. The work involved modifying the existing milk  prep stations, along with removing kitchen units and storage.

Additionally the client wanted to swap the existing hand wash basins for new infant toilets to give them 4x toilets in total.

Existing Photos

Work in Progress

To make this project happen we completed the 3x knock throughs over 3x weekends. Doing prep works on the Friday afternoon including removing the kitchen units allowed us to ensure the guys had 2x full days on the Saturday and Sunday to complete the main works.

On the Saturday they needed cut the new opening and install the new lintel letting the cement dry overnight.

Sunday they returned to plaster the opening and make good the floor. The kitchen units needed to be re-instated, making everything clean and safe for Monday morning.

The following weekend, once the plaster was dry they were able to paint the previous opening on the Friday before starting the next opening.

A 4th weekend allowed us to finish the final opening and swap the sinks for infant toilets and install a new door.

Work in Progress Photos

Completed Photos

Unfortunately due to being a working nursery there are very few completed photos as there were always children around.

But the finished openings were all plastered and painted to match the existing walls with crisp corners and vinyl flooring was installed over the thresholds. more importantly it allowed the staff more space essentially doubling the size of each classrooms and ensuring visibility at all times.

The toilets were not fancy but purely functional and allowed less congestion at break times.

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Industrial style glass partition alterations in Frome

Industrial style glass partition alterations in Frome

Client: Frome Business Park
Value: £5.9k

The aim of this partitioning project for Frome Business Park , was to make the private office feel more open to the central meeting area by removing a solid wall and installing a glass partition.

We used and industrial style glass partition to match the existing glazing throughout the building.

Preliminary work

The first step was to measure the partition being removed and work out how to make sure the new partition would like like part of the original building scheme.

We were made aware that the existing partition housed a steel cross brace support for the mezzanine floor which could not be moved and we did not know exactly where it was positioned.

We planned to paint the steel in the same dark grey to match and worked on the basis that the new industrial style glass partition would need to be positioned in front or behind of the steel.

Existing office

Work in Progress photographs

We took out the solid partition wall and re-plastered the opening and painted white to match the walls around giving a nice square opening ready for the new industrial style glass partition to be installed.

The newly exposed steel cross brace was painted in the same dark grey ad the existing frameworks and doors making a feature out of it.

The existing vinyl plant flooring was uplifted and re-laid in offset cut formations to make good of the gap in flooring where the partition was removed without leaving and obvious joint line in the flooring.

Completed partition

The finish office partition looked like it has always been part of the building allowing more natural light into the office and encouraging integration between the office and meeting space.

The black crittal banding gives a really nice industrial look especially with the exposed cross brace behind.

Would you like to remove a solid partition and install glass partition in your office?

If you would like some advice and inspiration on how glass partitions can make a difference in your office, please do give us a call on 01380 73 88 44, or email us at [email protected] and we would love to help.