Palmer reports domestic glazing market set for period of sustained growth
Growing consumer confidence, a burgeoning housing market and a low interest rate environment helped boost the domestic glazing market in Great Britain in 2013 and growth looks set to continue through to 2018: “We’re More...
Everglade Windows latest conference focuses on upselling in the upturn
The 2014 conference for Everglade Windows kicked off with how customers can make more money as we come out of recession. “It’s easy to think that being busy is always a good thing,” explains Everglade Windows’ More...
Steve Lane, National Sales Manager at Sternfenster
Lincolnshire’s largest and longest established fabricator, Sternfenster, has recently made a strategic appointment as it embarks on its next stage of growth. Steve Lane is a well-known figure in the industry, More...
Quickslide boosts its team with three appointments
Fast-growing fabricator Quickslide has announced three new appointments – including two completely new positions – to further strengthen its service to a growing base of trade customers across the UK. Marcus More...
655 shaped PVC-U windows featured at Abbey Mill
Universal Arches are no strangers to the commercial market, yet this latest project with Dempsey Dyer is the largest one of it’s kind ever in the UK with the replacement of 655 shaped PVC-U windows, as part of More...
Award winning vertical slider from Roseview gets even better
A forward thinking, specialist PVC-U sash window fabricator has launched a component designed to make their products look even more like timber. Buckinghamshire based Roseview Windows, creators of G-13 New Product More...
Conservatories rank high on British homeowners spending priorities
The latest Britain at Home report from Lloyds Bank Insurance reveals interesting data about British home life. The bi-annual report is designed to build a comprehensive picture of a British home and owners’ spending More...
Fenestration sector benefits from the latest reforms to the planning system
New figures released recently show for the first time how efforts to reform the planning system and cut red tape have enabled thousands of homeowners to make improvements to their properties, and have got Britain More...
UK house building hits highest level for seven years, says latest report from the NHBC
New house building figures released by NHBC today (22 October 2014) show that new home registrations have hit their highest level since 2007. The figures for Q3 2014 reveal that overall new home registrations have More...
Rise in construction activity fuels record workload says the RICS market survey
Sharp rise in private housing and private commercial activity pushes up workloads at fastest rate since 1994 Private housing and private commercial construction activity fuelled a record workload in Q3 2014, according More...
Swagger returns to the window industry
There is no denying that the swagger has returned to the window industry over the last few months. If reports on the overall prospects for the construction sector are to be believed, this trend is set to continue. More...
Veka fabricator Glazerite gets behind the Approved Installer scheme
Glazerite Windows, one of Veka’s largest fabricators of PVC-U windows, doors and conservatories, has already signed up its first 50 customers to The Veka UK Group’s Approved Installer scheme. The initiative, More...