Main living room (2nd floor); structure of the steel glazed wall with the prime anticorrosive coat, 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýMain living room (2nd floor); floor before the application of the xylolite screed, round flanges (protective pipes) of the heating element in front of the glazed wall in the floor on the left, photograph: David ŽidlickýUpper terrace (3rd floor) after removing the provisional scaffold, 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýUpper terrace (3rd floor); Installation of heat insulation (foam glass) in hot asphalt at the rounded bench, 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýInstallation of heat insulation (foam glass) in hot asphalt on the entrance terrace (3rd floor), 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýMs. Greta’s room (3rd floor); newly laid xylolite screed, a strip of original xylolite under the built-in wardrobes on the left, 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýCorridor in the children’s section (3rd floor), progress of the xylolite screed laying, 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýMain living room (2nd floor); progress of the xylolite screed laying, 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýMain living room (2nd floor); box for the floor socket before applying the xylolite screed, 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýMain living room (2nd floor); preparation for the application of the xylolite screed, 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýFormer cook‘s room in the personnel wing (2nd floor); grouting of cracks in the interior plasters, 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýLevelling and filling of gaps for ceramic tiles in the kitchen (2nd floor), 2011, photograph: David ŽidlickýTechnické podlaží (1. NP); tepelná izolace s cementovou kletovanou omítkou zavěšeného potrubí ústředního topení a vody, 2011, photograph: David Židlický

Main living room (2nd floor); structure of the steel glazed wall with the prime anticorrosive coat, 2011, photograph: David Židlický

May 2011

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METAL ELEMENTS 
Continuing work on the reconstruction of the steel structures of the glazed wall in the main living room (2nd floor) and the renewal of the window sliding mechanism. Heating elements were embedded in concrete in the main living room. The restorers cleaned steel door frames on the technical floor (1st floor). 

ROOF
The unauthentic concrete roof attic was lowered to the original level and the structure is ready for levelling. T-profile is being installed.
The existing metal sheet roofing and degraded wooden formwork were removed from the roof skylight over the bathroom in the parents‘ section (3rd floor), the restorers applied an antirust coating on the steel structure of the skylight.

FLOORS
Cracks in the original floor layers on the 3rd floor were repaired before applying the xylolite screed which covers the whole floor excerpt for the housekeeper‘s flat. In the main living room (2nd floor) , the xylolite screed covers approximately one third of the floor space size. In relation to this work, electric floor sockets were installed. The hollow in the floor of the children’s bathroom was filled with light-weight aggregate (expanded clay) and covered with concrete. Original distribution systems were preserved in the expanded clay backfill.

OTHER WORK
External insulation was installed on the upper terrace (foam glass fixed in hot asphalt) and dam proofing layer (asphalt modified strip of the first layer). Provisional roofing was removed from the space above the upper terrace.
Works continues on the renewal of the internal and external plasters. The internal plasters are jet grouted to reinforce their incoherent parts. Work continues in the laundry and kitchen on levelling the existing wall surface, which will be ready for ceramic tiles.
On the technical floor (1st floor) the thermal insulation is applied on the plumbing and central heating system (mineral insulation with smoothened plaster). Central heating distribution system installation continues on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
Concrete foundations and flue-gas ducting for the installation of historic boilers commenced in the boiler room (1st floor).
In the room under the garden terrace preparatory work continues on the peripheral masonry (floor filling up, damp proofing, strip foundation concreting).
The restorers clean the authentic black ceramic tiles discovered in the coke chute to reuse it.