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How Build Aviator can help you during the coronavirus outbreak

|Date: 2 April, 2020

How Build Aviator can help you during the coronavirus outbreak

Build Aviator explains how it is here to help the trades during this Covid19 crisis. We want to help our ...

Build Aviator explains how it is here to help the trades during this Covid19 crisis. We want to help our customers, the SMEs, through this coronavirus crisis, from helping you win work to assisting wi ...

2 April, 2020
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Could the ToolWatch app help return your stolen tools?

|Date: 2 April, 2020

Could the ToolWatch app help return your stolen tools?

Developed by a builder, the ToolWatch web-based app hopes to restore stolen property to its rightful owne ...

Developed by a builder, the ToolWatch web-based app hopes to restore stolen property to its rightful owners, and deter crime in the process. Professional Builder’s Lee Jones finds out more. It is esti ...

2 April, 2020
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Protect yourself from asbestos

|Date: 1 April, 2020

Protect yourself from asbestos

This week is Global Asbestos Awareness Week. Although the current coronavirus outbreak might mean you are ...

This week is Global Asbestos Awareness Week. Although the current coronavirus outbreak might mean you are off the tools and not thinking about your potential exposure to deadly asbestos fibres, it is ...

1 April, 2020
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Garden door options from Quickslide

|Date: 31 March, 2020

Garden door options from Quickslide

Quickslide’s Adrian Barraclough guides you through the latest garden door options. Where once there was j ...

Quickslide’s Adrian Barraclough guides you through the latest garden door options. Where once there was just the perennial white aluminium sliding patio door, now there are sliders, bi-folds and Frenc ...

31 March, 2020
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Honest John’s top six vans

|Date: 30 March, 2020

Honest John’s top six vans

Looking for a van that’ll cope with everything your working day will throw at it? These are the top six o ...

Looking for a van that’ll cope with everything your working day will throw at it? These are the top six on sale today, according to Honest John Vans. No job is too big for a large van. In fact, when i ...

30 March, 2020
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Interview: Richard Stone from Stone Contracts on the impact of coronavirus

|Date: 26 March, 2020

Interview: Richard Stone from Stone Contracts on the impact of coronavirus

A couple of days is a long time at the moment, but just before the government’s lockdown announcement ear ...

A couple of days is a long time at the moment, but just before the government’s lockdown announcement earlier this week, we spoke to Richard Stone from Stone Contracts about his decision to shut down ...

26 March, 2020
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The importance of properly constructed cavities

|Date: 26 March, 2020

The importance of properly constructed cavities

Charlie Ayers, the founder of SureCav, talks about the importance of properly constructed cavities. The i ...

Charlie Ayers, the founder of SureCav, talks about the importance of properly constructed cavities. The introduction of the Domestic Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) in 2018 means all new bui ...

26 March, 2020
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Installation guidelines for CaberWood MDF

|Date: 25 March, 2020

Installation guidelines for CaberWood MDF

Norbord is the leading manufacturer of MDF worldwide. In the second part of our feature, we look at furth ...

Norbord is the leading manufacturer of MDF worldwide. In the second part of our feature, we look at further installation guidelines for its CaberWood MDF. You can check out the first part here: probui ...

25 March, 2020
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How training has improved safety when working at height

|Date: 23 March, 2020

How training has improved safety when working at height

We speak to Paul Bruton, product development director at WernerCo, who reflects on how working at height ...

We speak to Paul Bruton, product development director at WernerCo, who reflects on how working at height has changed during his four decades in the industry, and the positive role training has had in ...

23 March, 2020
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Review: VW Transporter 6.1

|Date: 20 March, 2020

Review: VW Transporter 6.1

The Transporter 6.1 is the latest in a very long line of vans of that name in which generations of trades ...

The Transporter 6.1 is the latest in a very long line of vans of that name in which generations of tradespeople have placed their trust. Professional Builder’s Lee Jones gets behind the wheel. In the ...

20 March, 2020
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