Apart from a couple of days February has been a month of constant rain. Needless to say no external decorating has been done. If any tenants in the new mansard have any building problems please (e.g. a leak as happened in Flat No13) please let George or Bradley Construction know .
Progress to the new reception area has been delayed due to the solar panel installers. However they will be in at the end of the first week of March so hopefully without any further delays the new reception is programmed to be completed by the middle of March.
We will be laying a patterned tiled entrance to the front of the entrance to 75
Apologies in advance for the obstruction, we will be making a temporary platform for all of you to walk over when Stan is laying these tiles.
The reconstruction works in 79 to solve the leaks are progressing well and as long as we have no delays with certain materials arriving on time these works will definitely be completed by the middle of April.
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We have completed our Mansard development, and have moved on to build 2 new 1st floor studios. Consequently we will shortly be updating our website and advertising to reflect that whilst the only the last two Mansard studios are available from next week we have a couple more studios to the same high standards being finished in the following weeks. All photos are of flats that have been finished and rented, but these new vacancies are constructed to the same specification, so although they are not of the actual vacancies, they are very representative of the flats we have to offer.
75 Winchester Street, Pimlico – Flat 11 Double Studio with Roof Terrace, plans and photos of this flat available for £1300 pcm.
75 Winchester Street, Pimlico – Flat 12 Double Studio available for £1200 pcm – no photos, website and plan being prepared.
79 Winchester Street, Pimlico – Flat 2 1st Floor Double Studio available for £1000 pcm – no photos, website and plan being prepared.
79 Winchester Street, Pimlico – Flat 3 1st Floor Double Studio with large south facing balcony available for £1100 pcm – no photos, website and plan being prepared.
Last week was Gas Testing week – all gas appliances were tested, and landlord’s certificates obtained.
Next week (week commencing 15th February) is Electricity Testing week. The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994 requires that all mains electrical equipment (cookers, washing machines, kettles, etc), new or second-hand, supplied with the accommodation must be safe. We have employed a PAT testing company to check all appliances in all flats, and they will be visiting your flat to conduct tests at some point during the week.
If there are particular days or times that you would like the test to take place please could you let George know.
Do you know the tenants who live next door? Do you say hello when you bump into them on the stairs? If not why not? If you do – well done, people in cities need to talk more, and London is no exception. I was moved to write this after reading “Waking up to Death”
There was a dead man on my brother’s patio when he woke up this morning. That’s not something that happens every day, I’m sure you will agree. Even in the urban jungle of central London, where my brother lives, it is a bit of a shocker.
The first warning he had of this occurrence was when there was a loud banging on the front door early in the morning. It was the police. Quite a few police. They trooped through his basement flat, opened the french windows of his bedroom and stepped onto the patio outside. There the body lay. The dead man was in his 50’s and had jumped from the roof of the tall London town house where my brother’s flat is situated on the lowest level.
This happened 2 days ago, 3 streets away from Pimlico Flats, in a building very like our own. The dead man & the writer’s brother didn’t know each other even though they lived in the same building – London can be like that. However Pimlico has always been different – the film Passport to Pimlico captured a village community which wasn’t and isn’t fictional – Pimlico is a village at the centre of London, so if you are living in London (and in particular in Pimlico Flats) and feeling lonely ……. join in with the village:
There is no excuse for loneliness in Pimlico, if you are a tenant of Pimlico Flats and lonely do something about it tomorrow on your way to work. Say “Good Morning” to 3 people before you get to the end of Winchester St. – it won’t be difficult, and it will make a difference. It may not be you that needs to talk but “Good Morning” Could Be a Matter of Life or Death in London to someone else.
Krystyna of Bradley Construction wonders where January has disappeared, and whilst she says that she doesn’t remember in her lifetime having snow so many times in one winter, I myself can remember Winchester St. during the winter of 1963 – much worse! Because of the extreme weather conditions decoration of the front of the buildings decorating has been delayed for the foreseeable future.
At last house 75 will be complete and the stair carpets will be laid at the end of the first week of February. This is a lengthy process as the actual carpet needs to be cut to the accurate length then sent off to be bound before it can be laid. I hope everyone in house 75 is pleased with the finished effect of the hallway. The new intercom system was ordered and should arrive and be fitted at the same time.
The new open plan reception & office is taking shape, and will contain equipment and tanks associated with the solar panel heating system. This equipment will be put in place and cupboards built to enclose it all. We hope to have this open area ready by the middle of the month. Once it is completed we will explore how it may be best used. One possibility might be (subject to fire regulations) a common Internet terminal available for everyone’s use, and possibly a Network printer. The biggest problems with common services like that is that we are not equipped to provide technical support.
Krystyna has been asked to undertake repairs to 75 Flat 1 and the first floor of 79 – the tenants underneath these flats have been suffering from major leaks from showers, which have defied all repair attempts over several years, and so finally we are undertaking two major projects, including structural work to replacing structural timberwork which has rotted as a result of the continual leakages.
Yes Pimlico Flats are going to let a couple have a flat in Central London free for a month.
We keep telling people that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and that if it’s too good to be true then it is …… and then we go and do this!
So yes – terms and conditions apply, so make sure that you understand what you have to do to get your flat free for a month. Last time we did this we had a pile of people who just wanted the free month – it doesn’t quite work like that! Here is the deal …..
There are no other fancy tricks, it’s a straight up and down offer from a straight up and down business. Look at one of our vacant flats, like it, sign up for the tenancy, get the 8th month free.
FAQ
A very Happy New Year to you all from Pimlico Flats and Bradley Construction, and an especial Thank You to George and Danny who turned out on Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day morning to successfully repair the failed Central Heating system in 77, and to clear the blocked Sewer in 71. Our very successful Christmas party seems a lifetime away now, some of Bradley Construction’s workforce returned to work on 4th January and the main decorators will start work on 11th January.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused whilst the stairs are being prepared and made good, and the new reception area will start to take shape after demolition works are finished. It has been decided that the new stair carpet will not be laid until all the decorating is finished as we do not want unnecessary dust settling onto the new carpet. More of an affect will start to take place once the decorators start adding the colours to the walls. Unfortunately at these low temperatures painting is very difficult so the external work has been put on hold, once this cold spell is over we will resume decorating the outside. The new entrance to 75 is programmed to be completed at the end of January.
The next project planned to start after completion of the entrance to 75 will be a major repair program for Ground Floor 75 and 1st Floor 79. In both cases serious leakages require the complete replacement of showers and rectification of structural damage caused by leakages from the defective showers