Weir House will be the first block to have it’s new windows fitted by Christmas, with just three flats left to get their new windows installed just before the festive season.

Residents living in Weir Estate’s smallest block, Weir House, will all enjoy a warmer and safer Christmas with many other families across the estate also enjoying their new double glazed windows.

However, it will be Weir House which will be the first estate block to finish having the new windows; though like the rest of the estate it will be in the New Year when residents will get their new front doors.

The 12 property block has had six of its flats installed with the new windows, many of which have been completed in one day as well as having the pilot flat at 3 Weir House, which has already had the windows and door fitted much to the delight of residents, Mr & Mrs Broderick as previously reported on wera.org.uk.

Some residents who have lived on the estate for many years have waited a long time to feel the benefits of new energy efficient double glazed windows which will provide warmth and cuts in rising heating bills which will come as a huge relief to all residents by the early part of 2010, after the intervention of WERA’s Chair and local councillors.

Other properties in West, Olding and Jewell Houses have also had their new windows fitted much to the delight of residents living in these blocks.

Works on the estate will come to halt over the festive break with works finishing on 23rd December and restarting on 4th January 2010. The new windows have come as a much appreciated early Christmas present to many families who will not endure freezing mornings during the winter months as they have since Weir Estate was built.

With Weir House complete in the run up to Christmas a delighted WERA Chair said “I am thrilled that nearly all the properties in Weir House have had their new windows installed and many other across the estate are also done, this shows what determination and the efforts of WERA can do.

It’s an extra bonus that residents will enjoy a better Christmas this year thanks to the installation of new windows, there is a long way to go but this shows a real effort to improve residents lives and what better time than at this time of year.”

Many residents living in Weir House and the neighbouring blocks which have been started can now begin putting up new curtains and blinds and enjoy better living conditions with one residents stating “I will now have to get my daughter to wake me up in the mornings for work as I won’t be woken by the draft and cold caused by the dreadful windows I have had since moving here over thirty years ago”

Posters on all blocks will be put up to inform residents when they can expect their block to begin with Glanville, Quennel and Dan Bryant all waiting to get their new windows. Appointments are already being made by the Contractor’s Resident Liaison Officer, Shuzna Begum.