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By Adrian Toon, director of a2n. The best of the camera phones today can easily rival traditional cameras with their ease of use and, most importantly, offer more consistent results. While non can yet challenge the best DSLRs or digital cameras for quality, the margin is closing. So, which is best? Some camera phones can now offer up to 8K...
By Gary Dean, sales director, OnLevel UK. Glass balustrading is no new thing; a broad range of solutions and fixing methods that have been available for some time. So, how do you cut the wheat from the chaff and choose the best solution? Firstly, establish what look you require. One of the first considerations in detailing a glass balustrade solution...
Confusion continues to surround the impact of changes to Document B on the supply of laminate glass in balustrading. Mark Norcliffe, joint managing director of Cornwall Glass Manufacturing, discusses. Regulations are there for the right reasons but they do have unintended consequences. This is very much true of Approved Document B and its amendment in December 2018, which bans the...
Top-end home improvements are a high-margin growth area for glass specialists outside, and increasingly inside the home, according to PGS Glass. Your average three-bedroom semi-detached home doesn’t have a pool, a sauna or changing or games room, but there are a growing number of properties that do, and glass is a defining feature. “We’re definitely seeing more demand and doing...
Do a growing number of centre pane failures in triple-glazed IGUs represent a ticking time bomb for the UK window and door industry? Glass Times talks to Dave Broxton, managing director of Bohle. Although double-glazed units represent the vast majority of installation the number of triple-glazed units fitted in the UK is growing. And so are the number of failures...
By Liniar. Liniar may not fabricate finished products at its facility in the East Midlands, but that doesn’t stop the team from keeping track of changes in customer behaviour. This month, the focus has been on entrance doors. PVCU doors are increasingly popular, thanks to superb thermal efficiency and the ability to give them a foiled finish such as woodgrain...
By Doorco’s chief doork, Jeyda. As the UK adjusts to life in lockdown, doors seem heavier than ever with their symbolism; never has it been more important to us which side of the door we’re on. The one thing we can all be certain of is that no matter how well crafted a solid, hospital fire door may be, it’s...
Distinction Doors’ marketing manager Bethaney Larkman looks at the latest stats, facts and developments relating to Distinction Glass, and why more fabricators are realising the benefits of the company’s prep service. We all know that windows are for looking through, while doors are for looking at. Well, we have certainly proven this adage at Distinction, most recently with year-on-year growth...
By Jeyda, Doorco’s chief doork. In times of emergency, when humanity is all a bit much, our furry companions can be the perfect antidote for calming anxious spirits. Coronavirus or not, our barking sidekicks are still going to need to stretch their legs. We’ve called them cat flaps for many years but I prefer to think of them as doggy...
Cash is king, and Anglo European FD and former global Ernst and Young restructuring advisor David Evans warns it assumes even more critical importance as the industry goes back to work. The past few weeks have been many things but they have, to a point, been predictable. We knew we were heading towards a three-week lockdown, and we knew that...
Apeer’s managing director Asa McGillian discusses the new normal. At a normal social level, a pandemic is not something that any of us is set up to deal with, and so when the curtain came down most of us (with the exception of a few village idiots) locked down and followed the advice. Which means that, from the point of...
James Polo-Richards, real estate lawyer and partner in the commercial real estate team at law firm Wright Hassall, discusses how businesses can raise funds quickly. The financial support packages offered by the UK government could not come soon enough, as businesses begin to feel the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic. The urgency of situation has led to companies calling for...
What are the lessons learned from the impact Covid-19 has had on business, and how should we change? Google tracks interest in search terms over time giving them a score of anywhere between zero and 100. These scores have no quantitative meaning; a score of 70 on a particular day doesn’t mean that only 70 people searched for a term,...
AdminBase users are using the lockdown wisely, according to Ab Initio’s Rhonda Ridge, creator of the installer management system now used by more than 3,000 users in the UK. After the initial shockwaves caused by lockdown, human beings are doing what they do best in a crisis: reviewing, adapting, preparing, and responding. Our AdminBase system is the beating heart of...
Ryan Johnson, managing director at Emplas, asks if you are confused about whether or not you should return to work. We’re now in the fourth week of shutdown. It’s been a difficult time for us, our customers and our suppliers, personally and professionally. Closing our doors on March 24 was something I could never have imagined doing. We never want...
By Neil Cooper-Smith, senior analyst at Business Pilot. There are a couple of things I think it’s important to keep in mind in what is a very distressing period for industry, as well as personally. I’m not going to pretend that it’s business as usual. It’s not; the figures in our latest barometer make that clear. I am, however, for...
Chris Brunsdon, CEO of TommyTrinder.com, discusses remote selling. As an industry that relies on selling to people in their homes, Covid-19 and a nationwide lockdown threatens installers everywhere. And because it threatens installers, it threatens the industry that supplies them. The situation is changing day by day, and we’re all trying to adapt as quickly as we can. But if...
By Liniar’s Simone Sangha. With a global pandemic forcing many to now work from home, it goes without saying that some may still be getting used to the idea. As I’ve worked from home in the past, the jump for me has not been as big as it has been for those who haven’t, so I thought I’d share some...
Andy Swift, ISO-Chemie’s sales and operations manager, says changes to Building Regulations will have an impact on the energy efficiency of windows and doors. Under current regulations, all new building designs are benchmarked against parameters such as the thermal performance of materials, the orientation and size of windows, airtightness and heating and ventilation systems. Designs must comply with these if...
A new study shows that homes in many European countries are three times as thermally efficient as Britain’s. Edgetech’s Chris Alderson argues it’s yet more evidence the UK needs a retrofit revolution. Last year, Britain became the world’s first major economy to commit itself to going carbon neutral by 2050. Now, new research has highlighted the scale of the challenge...
