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UK homeowners are conscious of the need to prepare their homes to withstand bad weather. Vista’s managing director Keith Sadler commented: “With the terrible weather we’ve seen in recent years, and more forecast for this winter, it’s no surprise that homeowners are weatherproofing their homes by choosing XtremeDoor. “With its waterproof skin and triple-sealed PVCU outer frame, XtremeDoor will never...
TruFrame has introduced its new online composite door designer. The door designer has been designed by Business Micros and fully supports its composite door range, which is based on the Endurance Doors slab, which has a BBA-certified timber core. TruFrame customers can now create a perfectly bespoke door in real time on mobile, tablet or PC with the added benefit...
Synseal has introduced a new, classic handle style for the WarmCore folding sliding door system. The new high-security lever/lever handle is well-suited to residential and French doors, which are more conventionally paired with lever/lever hardware. With a solid extruded aluminium baseplate to safeguard the cylinder, tested to PAS24 standards, the lever/lever handle surpasses British standards for high-security door hardware. Andy...
Sameday Trade Frames has added the Ultimate Evolution aluminium bifolding door to its trade offer. Sitting alongside its established aluminium bifold door offer from Aluk, it features a fully adjustable jamb option, which makes it simpler to align the door, even where apertures are out of square – cutting installation times to 45 minutes, it has been claimed. With trade...
PC Henderson offers a range of sliding and folding door hardware systems that guard against elements such as salt spray and sea air. Seaside destinations have become the most popular overnight holiday locations for Brits with 13.7 million visits in 2015. With this in mind, it is important that proprietors and builders safeguard the security, weather tightness and corrosion risks of...
Mercury Glazing Supplies has reported soaring sales on its Smart Visofold 1000 aluminium bifold door. Chris Reeks, Mercury’s sales and marketing director, said: “Our aluminium bifold sales are rocketing at the moment – in the last three months our output has more than doubled on the same period in 2015.” The Smart Visofold 1000 aluminium bifold door offers slim sightlines...
Kömmerling’s PremiLine PRO patio door has achieved PAS 24 in a four-pane variant, using a single door set for the entire testing procedure and without the need for additional plunge bolts. PremiLine PRO was originally launched in August 2015 and was claimed to be the first PVCU patio door that could achieve PAS 24. It could also meet the standards...
ExtrudaSeal has launched a new fit-and-forget aluminum bi-folding door threshold gasket, which uses a semi-rigid box foot to provide a secure fix, improved compression, and weather sealing. Suitable for use with a wide range of aluminium systems, including Aluk, the new threshold gasket was developed by ExtrudaSeal’s in-house design team, in response to installer and fabricator demand. Used as an...
Endurance Doors has become Metsä Wood UK’s largest industrial partner, as it continues to enjoy a long period of growth. For more than 20 years, Kerto LVL has been used widely in the construction sector for walls, floors, roofs and other applications including solid core composite door manufacture through Endurance Doors. It’s a laminated timber construction from Metsä Wood that’s...
One of the highlights of the Distinction Glass range, launched by Distinction Doors in October this year, is the contemporary glass designs. Chantel Roach, Distinction’s marketing director, said: “Until now, glazing options that complemented contemporary door styles have been limited. We’ve changed all that with the introduction of our contemporary glass range which is really setting the bar in glass...
Dekko Window Systems has added Deceuninck’s Slider 24 to its product range. Deceuninck’s R&D division extensively tested leading sliding doors already on the market, with the aim of producing a product that surpassed them in all areas. The resulting door delivers A+-rated energy efficiency, PAS24-accredited security, and excellent weather resistance performance – Slider 24 achieves Class E8A water permeability with...
The Smartglass brand from Clayton Glass – synonymous with conservatory glass – has been bought to the bifolding and patio door markets, with Smartglass-W. Typically, the glass used in ‘A’ rated and above windows is designed with an element of solar heat gain within the calculations. This is all well and good in typical domestic properties for replacement windows, but...
