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New £70m Green Deal Fund now open The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced that the scheme, now open to new applications, is with up to £5,600 available to households in England and Wales to help with the cost of installing certain energy saving measures such as solid wall insulation, double glazing, boilers,[…]
Mitsubishi Electric Lossnay mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) units to each floor as well as a City Multi R2 heat recovery air conditioning system at Garfield House. etc.venues latest meeting and training venue Garfield House on Edgware Road in London has been transformed into contemporary meeting and conference rooms for businesses to hire with[…]
Crest Nicholson’s Park Avenue housing development Newton waterproofing solution for the Crest Nicholson development at the old training grounds for London Irish Rugby club in Sunbury-on-Thames. Park Avenue housing development in Sunbury-on-Thames is a combination of 193 apartments and spacious executive homes on a site that was the old training grounds for London Irish Rugby[…]
Polypipe Ventilation’s new catalogues have been developed to help installers and specifiers to select and install its ventilation systems Together, Polypipe’s 76-page Product Selector and its accompanying Short Form Product Guide cover its whole range of energy efficient ventilation systems, which have been designed for both domestic and commercial use. Its new Silavent Sapphire bathroom[…]
Ahmarra’s Windsor three panel door was specified for the period property Ahmarra frequently supplies its panelled timber doors for interiors across the UK. Its products are often installed in hotels and commercial buildings. The company recently worked with the owner of a period Chelsea townhouse to fit the property with bespoke panel doors. It was[…]
Crown Trade’s re-designed website is now ready for use by decorating professionals The company wanted to update its site to be more aesthetically pleasing and easier to navigate around. It has been developed to include a new ‘pick list’ service, which allows users to select the products they want to purchase and print out an[…]
MoCoCo House provides safe and appropriate housing for young adults Statistics have shown that many teenagers are being allocated unsafe accommodation after leaving local authority care. In response to this, CRASH launched a refurbishment project to transform an old bus garage into suitable housing for MoCoCo, a charity based in Cheshire. MoCoCo approached CRASH with[…]
The Metal Gutter Manufacturers Association (MGMA) has released its new document to advise on the refurbishment of internal metal gutters Internal gutters are commonly manufactured from galvanised steel and secured with bolted joints. As these gutters age, corrosion of the gutter steel substrate can occur. The bolted gutter joints can also begin to leak and[…]
If left untreated, mould can be hazardous to health. Greenwood Airvac suggests that the installation of adaptive ventilation systems can prevent it Greenwood Airvac believes that lack of education is contributing to the rise of damp and condensation. With 5 million UK properties suffering from damp – many of which are social houses – the[…]
Novus’ refurbishment team were joined by students from Stoke-on-Trent college as part of its ‘Challenge South Africa’ initiative A group of five tradespeople from the company spent a fortnight at the Busy Bees Educare nursery in the city’s Parkwood area. The Parkwood community has been recently affected by and suffered from crime and gang activity.[…]
