Commercial project · Stockport
Stockport School classroom, science lab and sports hall blinds
Burgundy roller blinds fitted through classrooms, science labs and the sports hall, worked room by room while the school was empty for the summer.
- Client
- Stockport School
- Setting
- Classrooms, science labs and sports hall
- Location
- Stockport
Project facts
The job at a glance.
- Client
- Stockport School
- Setting
- Classrooms, science labs and sports hall
- Location
- Stockport
- Classrooms
- 10 rooms
- Sports hall
- 14 blinds
- Installation
- Three working days
The brief
What the site needed.
Stockport School had one job with two very different halves. Ten refurbished classrooms and the science labs needed simple, everyday control on tall period-style windows. The sports hall needed something else entirely: glare knocked off the court from glazing sitting high in the roof steelwork.
BBS supplied and fitted roller blinds throughout, using a single burgundy fabric so every room reads the same and the finish ties in with the school colours. The classrooms and labs are crank operated, which is the control a teacher can use without thinking about it. The sports hall took fourteen large format motorised blackout blinds, fitted high into the steelwork where nobody is going to reach a chain.
Where a classroom wall carries several windows in a run, the blinds were set to a matching drop, so light control across the wall is even rather than stepped.
The work went through room by room while the building was empty for the summer holidays, from the ground floor classrooms right up into the sports hall, with snagging and final adjustment inside the three-day programme. Supplied, fitted and delivered on time by BBS’s own fully employed installation team, all Enhanced DBS.
What we did
A specification shaped around the setting.
- 01
Classrooms and labs
Crank-operated roller blinds fitted to the tall period-style windows in ten refurbished teaching rooms and the science labs.
- 02
Sports hall
Fourteen large format motorised blackout blinds fitted high into the steelwork to control glare on the court below.
- 03
Fabric
One burgundy fabric used throughout, chosen to tie in with the school colours.
- 04
Multi-window runs
Blinds on multi-window classroom walls were set to a matching drop so light control is even across the whole run.
- 05
Completion
Installation, snagging and fine-tuning within three working days.
Working on site
Planned around the building, not just the windows.
- 01
Prepare two systems
Classroom and high-level sports hall requirements were organised separately.
- 02
Work the empty building
Rooms were taken in order through the summer holidays, from the ground floor classrooms up into the sports hall.
- 03
Install
Crank-operated and motorised blind systems were fitted in their respective areas.
- 04
Fine tune
The programme included snagging and final adjustment of the completed systems.
The result
What changed for the space.
The school opened for September with practical manual control in classrooms and science labs, motorised blackout on the high sports hall glazing, and one burgundy fabric giving every room the same finish.
- One burgundy fabric across every room fitted
- High-level sports hall glazing operated remotely
- Room by room through the holidays, ready for September
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