Rob O'Keeffe Joinery
Job profile: Church windows
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In this small but tricky job, Rob had to replace some 100 year-old windows in St Mary's Church in Upongaro outside Wanganui. St Mary's was built in 1877 and is the oldest church in the region still at its originla site.
"The church had two curved louvre frames and a couple of window frames that had gone rotten, so we had to copy exactly what was there. However, the original frames were made quite badly out of shape and uneven on each side. So we've made them so that they look the same as the original ones, but we tweaked them a bit to be more accurate and look a bit better – you can't make something new and not right!"
