An update

• Plans FINALLY came back from our engineers this week. We need to choose a pool builder and then those plans can go to the council for approval.
• The bedroom windows have been officially measured and will be ready to install in about four weeks. 
• The lounge window turned out NOT to have enough strength above our current window ins the lounge. That means we will either have to swap styles (no more bi-fold) or pay about $10,000 to install a beam across the top of the current window. It seems a lot of money when we can find other styles that can go in now.

This is what we want to put in, bi-fold doors. They'll slide to one side (in our case, the opposite side to this). The weight of these doors hangs from the top and thus we would need a big beam for strength above the windows.

This is kind of what we are now considering. Only our room is longer than this. Each of our panels will be about 1.8 metres wide. It will still open the room up a lot, just less than we originally planned. We'll research and see if we can find anything else suitable.