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Rehau windows and doors have been installed in a luxury houseboat in Belfast, providing a clean and bright finish to the Scandinavian inspired boat, while keeping it cosy and warm inside. Now listed on Airbnb as one of the top featured properties in Northern Ireland, the boat – affectionately known as Nolly – was once destined for the scrapyard. She...
Oldham-based D&M Windows and Doors recently completed two large commercial installations using windows and doors fabricated by The Glazerite UK Group. Veka approved installer D&M Windows was appointed by contractors Brown and Bancroft to work on the Siemens office building in Congleton, Cheshire. The transformation of the building took three months to complete and involved the installation of 200 Veka...
A £4.2 million school project in Derby has highlighted the major advantages that developers can benefit from when working closely with a conscientious systems house, according to Liniar. Family-run construction firm GF Tomlinson completed building work on Akaal Primary School, Derby’s first Sikh school, in the summer 2018, which opens its doors to pupils in September 2018. The new building...
Everglade of Wythenshawe has completed a 'pet project' of building and fitting almost 30 PVCU profile cat pens at the Society for Abandoned Animals (SAA). The Veka fabricator was asked to work on the project after the charity in Sale received a series of ‘legacy donations’ from supporters who have named SAA in their wills, combined with two significant grants...
WarmCore windows and doors were installed on one of George Clarke’s ‘Old House, New Home’ projects, aired on Channel 4 in August. The third episode of the series featured period properties in Wales and Hove, where the WarmCore bifolding door and full-height windows were installed in a renovated kitchen by The Window Workshop, working with Empire Construction Group. The homeowners...
Astraseal recently partnered with Barker and Cresswell Glass on a new-build development. The property in Hertfordshire benefitted from Astraseal’s large span glazing products, including a 7.5m Visoglide Door and EcoFutural tilt and turn windows, both designed by Smart. The products were customised with RAL 9001, a cream colour and one of 150 shades in the RAL range of colours offered...
Aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling by CMS Window Systems has helped to create a world-class learning campus in the North Ayrshire town of Largs. The new £52 million, 2,000-student Largs Campus developed by North Ayrshire Council in conjunction with infrastructure partnership hub South West, is North Ayrshire Council’s largest ever investment in a single project. Designed by JM Architects,...
Bennett Architectural has been chosen to supply and install doors and windows for the new Shooting Stars Nursery in Kings Norton. The nursery group, which already has six sites in Bromsgrove, Gloucester, Hinckley, Stourbridge, Wolverhampton and Worcester, purchased the historical Barbara Hart House for the new facility which will provide 93 places for children. Bennetts will provide Kawneer architectural framing,...
A recent installation in Bamburgh, just a few miles from Allan Brothers’ factory in Berwick upon Tweed, illustrates perfectly how, for an increasing number of customers, only timber will do, the company said. The owners of a 19th century holiday cottage overlooking the green of Bamburgh Castle were replacing timber box sashes as part of a sympathetic refurbishment of the...
The process of upgrading windows in homes that are listed, in a conservation area or area of natural beauty, can become expensive and a technical labyrinth when applying for permission, south east-based fabricator Window Designs has reported. The company highlighted the case of Karen and Mark Cheater, owners of the Langtons Guest House on Eastbourne seafront, who recently discovered just...
A bat-friendly window designed and manufactured by West Port has allowed a housing project to continue unhindered. A collaboration between Speller Metcalfe and Linden Homes, the Victory Fields development has seen the transformation of decommissioned Gloucestershire air force base Little Rissington into a collection of luxurious homes – but the venture hasn’t been without its challenges. While converting the base’s...
Unique Window Systems recently secured a contract on new-build development in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire. The project is a collection of two-bedroom apartments being built alongside three- and four-bedroom homes, using the WarmCore system to mirror the project’s contemporary design. WarmCore combines an aluminium exterior with a full-width, thermal PVCU core, and housebuilders including Avant Homes, Bellway Homes, Davidson Homes and...
Wilburn Basin is a new housing development of nearly 500 homes in four blocks ranging from eight to 21 storeys around the historic River Irwell Basin, Manchester. 1,200 windows, including stacked/ribbon windows, plus 440 sets of French doors were specified in PVCU by main contractor Renaker. High levels of acoustic glazing were required on elevations that were located next to...
As part of a large-scale renovation programme, The Glazerite UK Group and its Stockport-based customer Arctic Seal MCR, have supplied and installed 1,000 windows for a 260,000ft2 business community. Universal Square is an office campus based on the Piccadilly fringe of Manchester city centre, offering a professional service to more than 50 companies. As part of the refurbishment project, five...
CMS Window Systems was involved in the creation of the new Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries (DCL&G), which was crowned Scotland’s best building in the 2017 RIAS (The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland) Awards. The company was appointed to deliver the window and curtain walling contract for the £12.4 million project by Fife Council and Fife Cultural Trust. The...
The preservation of original window features in listed buildings, and those within conservation areas, is closely monitored by local authorities – and planning regulations often stipulate the like-for-like repair, refurbishment or replacement of timber frames. Once it was thought that only timber frames could achieve this appearance. But thanks to advancements in the design of PVCU windows, particularly vertical sliders,...
Roseview’s Ultimate Rose has helped Truro Windows give a Cornish property an ‘authentic’ facelift. A customer’s ageing and draughty timber sash window in a Kenwyn cul-de-sac needed replacing – but the new product had to replicate the original’s arched design down to the finest details and match the feel and character of the surrounding estate. The owners didn’t want to...
Synseal fabricator Network Upvc Systems is supplying products for fully functional homes built out of storage containers, in a third of the time of a typical new build. The idea was devised by Michael Philpot at VRC Homes, who uses a hybrid modular system based around a galvanised steel frame to build affordable homes, which can help developers use their...
K2 Aluminium Systems recently completed a redevelopment project in Halifax for Leeds Beckett University Business Centre. The project consisted of 125 windows as part of the larger £multi-million transformation programme on the old weaving mill located on Horton Street in Halifax. The architectural aluminium company installed Veka’s M70 frames in grey, which were manufactured by Glazerite’s Bolton division. Sales manager...
Installer Alan Gicquel needed to swap his van for a boat in order to replace the timber-framed windows for three remote island properties. Les Ecrehous is a small archipelago of islets located six miles off the north east coast of Jersey, and just eight miles from mainland France. Declared a RAMSAR site in 2005 to protect the habitat of the...