Matching aluminium aesthetics
By Dean Bradley, Glazpart sales director.
When choosing a material for a window and door profile or system, aluminium offers multiple benefits for fabricators, installers and most importantly to homeowners.
Not only is the material lightweight, adjustable, strong and durable, aluminium also has great flexibility when it comes to colours and types of finish.
With so many outstanding features, it is understandable that both commercial and domestic markets have seen an increase in demand for aluminium windows and doors. As such, more PVC-U fabricators now offer aluminium window and door options, especially for high value bi-fold and patio doors.
As aluminium becomes more popular, getting the perfect colour or finish of trickle ventilators is all important.
When the Building Regulations (Approved Document F – means of ventilation) changed in July 2022, it practically made trickle vents compulsory for those replacing existing windows and doors. At Glazpart, we have arguably the best ventilation solution in the market with our award-winning Link Vent range.
The ‘Link Vent’ range sizes include 5000, 4000 and 2500 EQA and are designed to fully comply with Building Regulations (Approved Document F).
The range features a clever, user friendly design with an innovative closing action that allows the closure plate to be positioned so that it reduces draughts by directing air away from occupants.
The Link Vent also has rounded ends of the vent and is available in either screw or clip in fixing types – the design eliminates the need for end caps whilst the clip fix design (Pawl’s) allows for a fast, easy vent installation.
Here, the Link Vent excels as when clip fixed into the rout it allows for the profile to expand and contract underneath the colour matched vent. This prevents the distortion of the vent, for if it were screw fixed, this could cause stresses to build up in the vent as a canopy will expand and contract at a different rate.
Easy fitting and functionality are essential but it is the vast spectrum of colours and decorative finishes that sets Glazpart’s Link Vent range apart from the competition.
For over ten years, we have consistently invested in machinery and tooling to place the company in prime position to supply the Link Vent in colour matched, sprayed RAL (European Colour Systems) colours as well as decorative finishes for any aluminium window or door profile.
Being an approved colour paint sprayer, Glazpart can match most colour systems including all standard RAL and BS (British Standards) colours on an appropriate base colour vent with a gloss / sheen level to the powder coating. In addition, we also have a specialist colour matching service that can match non-standard colours and supplied colour samples.
With aluminium windows and doors tested to resist extreme weather conditions, the material has great resistance to corrosion and extreme heat. In keeping with aluminium itself, the colours of Glazpart’s Link Vents are also extremely stable and durable with the vents holding their colour through constant exposure to the elements of weather, without noticeable fading.
With homeowners becoming more particular than ever, the finished appearance is a huge factor.
So when homeowners choose aluminium windows or doors, fabricators and installers need to be in a position to offer the widest range of colours and finishes possible, and as such need to ensure they have vents to match the profile finish and more than meet homeowners’ expectations.
Earlier this year, we created a special minimum order quantity of 10 vents or canopies for premium finishes. This new order quantity means companies can order the vents as and when they need them for specific jobs and save tying up cash in high stock levels.
