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Mercury Glazing has manufactured and supplied 204 windows for the refurbishment of Cliff House, an iconic former hotel in Felixstowe, into 24 one and two-bedroom luxury seaside apartments. Working with main contractor and developer Dragon Wood Homes, the 12-month project involved Mercury manufacturing and supplying 204 bespoke windows, which included a mixture of arched top vertical sliders, bowed vertical sliders,...
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...
Spectus fabricator Eco Windows recently completed a design and installation project for a homeowner in Halifax. The project involved the manufacture and installation of bespoke arched windows and doors throughout the property. Steve Ryan, director at Eco Windows, said: “The property was of a very high specification and the windows and doors needed to be of a similarly high standard....
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...
Nottingham-based Paradise Windows recently installed Rehau Total70 windows into a period country home. Located in the heart of the Nottingham countryside, Felley House is set in two acres of private land. Complete with an indoor pool room, five bedrooms and many additional reception rooms the property boasts over 100 windows. Paradise Windows replaced the old windows with Rehau Total70 chamfered...
A new-build development featuring WarmCore windows and doors in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, has been awarded a Home Quality Mark by the BRE. Lancaster Grange is a collection of two-bedroom apartments, plus three- and four-bedroom homes, with Unique Window Systems supplying WarmCore aluminium windows and bifold doors to reflect the modern architecture. The Home Quality Mark (HQM) demonstrates high standards of...
Heath Windows & Doors recently completed the installation of nine Spectus Vertical Sliders in white woodgrain at a property in Whitchurch in Cardiff after being approached by the homeowners who wanted to replicate the authenticity of their original windows with the modern PVCU equivalent. Hywel Graham, operations manager of Heath Windows and Doors, said: “Many of the properties in Cardiff...
The inherent strength and slim sightlines characteristic of W20 steel sections have enabled a member of the Steel Window Association to create a large screen with two sets of double doors, forming the entire gable end to a north London period property’s new extension. Steel Window Service and Supplies, based in London N4, carried out the design, manufacture and installation...
Rehau’s Geneo Alu Top windows have been specified on a new student accommodation development in Coventry. Located in the city centre and just a five-minute walk from the main Coventry University campus, the Cycle Works hall of residence was developed by Sir Robert McAlpine on behalf of the University. The 350-bedroom accommodation block was fitted with more than 500 windows...
West Leigh, a member of the Steel Window Association, has manufactured and installed bespoke double glazed W20 frames for the refurbishment of a former brewery building in south London. The company carried out the £130K contract on the Plough Brewery, Wandsworth Road, for Marston Properties, working with specialist restoration architect, McDaniel Woolf in order to satisfy the concerns of local...
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...