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By Ashley Gaunt, technical director at Made For Trade. We all love a little something that makes a job that little bit easier, right? Often this might be something as simple as having the right screwdriver in your toolbox, or a nifty pair of work trousers with pockets in all the right places, but have you ever thought there might...
Tommy Trinder is turning to people power to decide which composite doors are added next to its Framepoint App. “Framepoint is already the most flexible, fast and exciting way for installers to quote their composite doors,” founder and CEO Chris Brunsdon said. “But we want to go further. We’re on a mission to create the world’s most comprehensive composite door...
Made For Trade has launched the Visoglide Plus sliding patio door. Sliding patio doors fill the same spaces, but offer a slightly different solution to bifold doors, the company said. Sliders can be more suited to smaller spaces which might not have the room for the perpendicular stacking of the bifolds when they are open. Compact opening then, along with...
Distinction Doors is the first stockist and distributor of glass reinforced polyester (GRP) door blanks in the UK to be granted Secured by Design (SBD) status. The company has gained approval for both standard and fire entrance door blanks. Its 44.5mm nxt-gen blank range, 44.5mm Signature blank range, and 45mm FD30 GRP composite door blank have proven specification requirements to...
William Woods, MD of IDF Aluminium, recently embarked on a new enterprise: manufacturing and installing modular garden office buildings, using Alutech’s BF73 aluminium profile system for bifold doors, which allows rooms to be taken down and relocated. Sister company Aliwoods will be taking care of sales and logistics. William is targeting the growing trend for home offices that have found...
With the rise in popularity for sliding patio doors, Simon Spiers, director of PatioMaster South East, says his company’s sales patterns clearly reflect two of today’s most popular design trends. “We know that today’s homeowners focus on design-led aesthetics without wanting to compromise on practicality,” Simon said. “It’s why the PatioMaster sliding patio door in anthracite grey is almost the...
Origin has launched the OS-29 (Patio Slider), which is the slimmest semi-dry glaze system in the UK, featuring a 29mm sightline and offering wide customer appeal, the company said. The OS-29 offers another sightline option in the Origin Patio Sliding Door range, joining the already well-established OS-44 and OS-77 (with 44mm and 77mm sightline options respectively). Its design and launch...
Hörmann has expanded its range of Thermo 65 steel entrance doors with a new acoustic-rated door, additional door styles and accessories, and increased colour options. The Thermo 65 door range offers solid construction, the company said, featuring a 65mm door leaf, and achieving U-values as low as 0.87W/m2K. All doors are equipped with a five-point security lock, with RC2 security...
Hallmark Doors and Panels has invested £1 million in the business after recording a threefold increase in orders since the start of the lockdown. While some businesses were caught out by the sudden and dramatic shift online which happened in 2020, Hallmark was in the fortunate position of already having a significant web presence and online ordering system in place...
Endurance Doors has reaffirmed its 3mm bowing guarantee for its range of solid core composite doors, despite recent weather. This move was welcomed by installer partners at the time, as it represented confidence in the Endurance Doors product proposition, and it was also a pledge that reflected the fact that customer call-backs have been near on eliminated, the company said....
Deceuninck Aluminium has launched a new French Door option. Part of a modular approach designed to lower stock-holding, the Decalu88 French Door is built around a common inner frame and mid-section, and integrated insulation used in its Decalu88 Aluminium Bi-fold. It also shares the same pre-inserted, flush to the bead, co-extruded gaskets. Nigel Headford, business development director at Deceuninck Aluminium,...
Abcell has now made it easier to order bifold doors with a new online ordering system. The system allows installers to design and pay for their doors in a matter of clicks, with a range of features including colours, configurations, additional hardware and glazing options. “We’ve been fabricating WarmCore for nearly four years now and it’s one of our most...
Installers are capitalising on the domestic boom in PVCU inline sliding doors, Patiomaster has reported. Carmen Velilla, PatioMaster’s brand manager, said: “Over the last 12 months, the market has witnessed a resurgence in popularity for inline sliding patio doors, especially from the domestic sector. Consumers continue to aspire to light-filled spaces which patio doors deliver. And with our Triple-track system,...
Dormakaba has upgraded its KTV Revolving Door system, which now offers improved installation times and a new automatic Night Shield, the company has reported. With the Dormakaba Direct Drive, the KTV Revolving Doors now feature a shallow ceiling assembly of 100mm, with an integrated LED light ring, allowing for the seamless integration with existing architecture, the company said. Thanks to...
Hörmann’s LPU 42 and LPU 67 automated sectional garage doors are now supplied with Secured by Design as standard. With increasing numbers of homeowners using their garages for storage, or for garages converted into leisure or living areas, SBD means peace of mind, the company said. Hörmann sectional doors have been designed to prevent and discourage criminal intrusion and vandalism....
Distinction Doors introduced a new FD30 composite fire door system through new brand: fds (fire door systems). The new system, Neuma fds, has proven fire resistance with 44 individual test specimens subject to 22 bi-directional fire tests, achieving an average of 45 minutes integrity. The fire door system was independently tested to EN1634-1: 2014 by EU notified body test houses....
Rockdoor now offers a hassle-free ‘no bow guarantee’ on its entire door range, which the company said is the result of an ongoing programme of product improvement and innovation. In early 2018, Rockdoor commissioned a purpose-built testing rig, one that could simulate the types of weather conditions that cause doors to move. On one side of the door, 25 heat...
Dekko Window Systems has experienced a surge in orders after embracing Kubu from Avantis. Dekko was a launch partner for Kubu, which now comes as a standard feature on all its PVC and composite entrance doors. The fabricator provides installers with product samples and marketing materials to help them to explain the benefits of smart tech to the end-user. Dekko...
Doorco has published a new video that reveals the engineering behind the Gripcore technology, which will sit behind the recently announced new products. Doorco MD Dan Sullivan said: “Gripcore Technology is a hybrid of modern and traditional materials, and has been engineered to deliver a stronger, heavier and more robust door that will not crack, move or de-laminate. “The structure...
Curo Group is the first housebuilder in the UK to provide PVC doors equipped for Kubu smart-sensor technology as standard on all new sites, in partnership Emplas. Curo Group is a West of England Housing Association that own a range of properties, from starter homes to grade one listed buildings, in locations from rural villages to city centres. In recent...