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Swish installer Somerglaze Windows has completed a refurbishment project on a home in Somerset. The project was to replace 13 windows throughout the property, along with several doors. Gary Hembrow, director of Somerglaze Windows, said: “The customer had extended the property and we therefore needed to replace the windows throughout the main house to tie in with the new extension....
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...
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,...
When contractors SEH Commercial were asked to specify the windows and doors for the Beaumont House retirement complex on the Essex coast, it opted for grey laminated Total70 windows and doors from Rehau. Beaumont House is a new build apartment block of 60 one and two-bedroom apartments, in the historic coastal town of Walton-on-the-Naze. Architects EJ Taylor created a contemporary...
The Opus is a 21-storey tower – designed by Zaha Hadid, and which pushes physical and technological boundaries to achieve its melting ice-cube shape – used Edgetech’s Super Spacer TriSeal, in its construction. Edgetech’s managing director Chris Alderson said: “The Opus is quite simply one of the most staggering and ambitious architectural projects attempted this decade. “It’s got a 6,000m2...
Tremco Illbruck has contributed to a striking new-build project that’s been named Riba’s House of the Year 2017. James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell designed the building, and worked alongside Westgreen to bring it to life. Inspired by the traditional oast houses of Kent, Caring Wood revives local building crafts and traditions including locally sourced handmade peg clay tiles, locally...
Max Glass recently used the Optima system from Profile 22 to complete an installation in a property in a woodland conservation area near Leeds. The property owners wanted to improve the thermal efficiency of their stone-built property but, as the area’s estate manager confirmed, it was essential that any replacement windows – including the 26 leaded lights – replicated the...
Sheffield’s ADM Windows has just given a stone farmhouse in Maltby, South Yorkshire, a new lease of life by installing 17 Spectus Flush Casement windows and one bay window. Aaron Fountain, director of ADM Windows, said: “Our customer wanted to replace the ageing timber windows of his farmhouse and replace them with high quality windows that would enhance the heritage...
Following a successful bid to the Education and Skills Funding Agency Condition Improvement Fund, a grammar school is reaping the aesthetic and practical benefits of Veka’s Matrix 70 windows, which have been installed throughout the 85-year-old building. The windows are PAS 24 and Secured by Design compliant and able to achieve U-values as low as 0.8W/m2K. When Wirral Grammar School...
Roseview’s Heritage Rose window has received an endorsement from interior designer Claire Totman. Claire, who worked in interior design for a decade before starting her own practice in 2016, used the product on a high-end renovation project in Cobham, Surrey. Milwater is a period residential property dating back to the mid-18th century, which today sits in Cobham’s conservation area. Charged...
The Clement Windows Group has manufactured and installed steel windows from its W20 range for the Comet Works in Birmingham’s Princip Street. The original warehouse buildings in the city’s former Gun Quarter have been converted by building re-animator Javelin Block into 20 residential units, including lofts, apartments and mews houses. The Clement W20 range was specified for its ability to...
Dempsey Dyer recently helped a customer complete a lucrative job in an Oxfordshire conservation area. Windmill Windows had been called on to refurbish a property in a historically sensitive part of the county. Together with the homeowner, the company decided to replace the existing windows with Deceuninck’s heritage flush sash. However, the project hit a problem. While impressed with the...
South Cheshire Glass recently installed windows in a charming property near Nantwich in Cheshire. Graham Saunders, South Cheshire’s general manager, said: “Our customers had a delightful property but they wanted to replace the windows and doors to take the aesthetics to the next level as well as improve thermal efficiency and security.” South Cheshire Glass is a Universal Trade Frames...
While large, timber-framed sash windows are one of the most recognisable and desirable features of Georgian architecture, they can offer poor energy performance. This was the challenge facing St Gerard’s school, a Catholic co-educational school in Bray, County Wicklow, near Dublin, which was founded in 1918 and still uses its original building. The building pre-dates the school itself and is...
A family from Cheshire decided to stay put and renovate their home at an idyllic and convenient rural location instead of moving house to find more open plan family space. The family has lived at the 1930s semi-detached home in Sandbach for 17 years and wanted to build a single storey extension to the rear of the property. The architect,...
London-based Keepout Windows completed a major project that has seen a commercial building converted into modern apartments. Technology House is set over two floors and Keepout Windows installed 150 tilt and turn windows at the property, which were dual functioning and dual-coloured PVCU – anthracite grey finish on the outside. Keepout also supplied several PVCU french doors, which were open-out...
Glazerite provided Halo FlushSash PVCU windows for a semi-detached property in a rural location. Nottingham-based Fearns of Carlton were chosen by Cherhire Barns Homes to supply eight Halo FlashSash windows in balsalt grey on white, after being impressed with the authentic appearance of the frames combined with the exceptional performance. The colour was selected from a range of 29 foils...
The frameless Lumi system from Apeer has recently been used in a large-scale renovation project for the director of Dublin-based window installer Harvest Energy. Director Jason Peters had replaced the windows and doors at his property only two years ago but, following the launch of the Lumi System at the Grand Designs Show in 2015, decided on a full refurbishment...
When Whipps Cross Hospital in East London required replacement windows that offered the benefits of new PVCU windows, but wouldn’t look out of place in the Grade II listed building, contractor SEH Commercial recommended Rehau’s Heritage range, a PVCU window with traditional sash window designs. Built just before the turn of the twentieth century as an infirmary, Whipps Cross Hospital...
A new 10-year steel reinforcement warranty for PVCU windows and doors is available from Anglo European. James Lister, operations director for Anglo European, said: “We know that modern windows are high performance products. There’s a trend for bigger window sizes and the increased demand for coloured frames means they must withstand greater expansion and contraction in the sun. More windows...