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How Van Racking Can Boost Your Business
|Date: 2 August, 2018

How Van Racking Can Boost Your Business
Those smart people at Bott Smartvan explain how your van can play a crucial role in racking up extra busi ...
Those smart people at Bott Smartvan explain how your van can play a crucial role in racking up extra business success. You may have invested heavily in acquiring the van of your dreams but, to truly g ...
2 August, 2018
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BS 8612: 5 Ways the New Roofing Standard Will Affect You
|Date: 2 August, 2018

BS 8612: 5 Ways the New Roofing Standard Will Affect You
A new British Standard for dry fix systems was launched at the end of January. Alex Gill, from Marley Ete ...
A new British Standard for dry fix systems was launched at the end of January. Alex Gill, from Marley Eternit, explains how it will affect you. Since the introduction of BS 5534 three years ago, there ...
2 August, 2018
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Highlighting Britain’s Drylining Heroes: Sean Dooner (Part Seven)
|Date: 2 August, 2018

Highlighting Britain’s Drylining Heroes: Sean Dooner (Part Seven)
As British Gypsum celebrates 100 years in the industry it wants to champion the trade and has been out on ...
As British Gypsum celebrates 100 years in the industry it wants to champion the trade and has been out on the road meeting some of the unsung drylining heroes. British Gypsum catches up with drylining ...
2 August, 2018
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Behind the Scenes with Festool: Renovation Tools
|Date: 2 August, 2018

Behind the Scenes with Festool: Renovation Tools
Are you achieving speedy, efficient and clean renovation? Festool's Phil Beckley explains how you ca ...
Are you achieving speedy, efficient and clean renovation? Festool's Phil Beckley explains how you can do just that. In the last column, I looked at the development of tool technology and the ...
2 August, 2018
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BUILDER’S WHEELS: MAN TGE
|Date: 31 July, 2018

BUILDER’S WHEELS: MAN TGE
Professional Builder Online’s Kieran Nee spent a day at Corby’s Rockingham Raceway getting his teeth into ...
Professional Builder Online’s Kieran Nee spent a day at Corby’s Rockingham Raceway getting his teeth into MAN’s first ever van, the TGE. You may find it surprising that the lion-branded manufacturer M ...
31 July, 2018
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Klober Answers Your Roofing FAQs
|Date: 31 July, 2018

Klober Answers Your Roofing FAQs
In the second of our FAQ series, Graham Copson, Technical Manager of Klober, takes us through some of the ...
In the second of our FAQ series, Graham Copson, Technical Manager of Klober, takes us through some of the more common queries received by the company’s technical department. To read last week's articl ...
31 July, 2018
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Behind the Scenes with Festool: Power Tool Progress
|Date: 26 July, 2018

Behind the Scenes with Festool: Power Tool Progress
In the first of a series of online articles from Festool’s Phil Beckley, he takes a look at how tool ...
In the first of a series of online articles from Festool’s Phil Beckley, he takes a look at how tools have developed with technology. There has been an incredible amount of tool technological dev ...
26 July, 2018
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Klober Answers Your Roofing FAQs
|Date: 24 July, 2018

Klober Answers Your Roofing FAQs
In the first of a new FAQ series, Graham Copson, Technical Manager of Klober, takes us through some of th ...
In the first of a new FAQ series, Graham Copson, Technical Manager of Klober, takes us through some of the more common queries received by the company’s technical department. Are roofing membranes bat ...
24 July, 2018
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Guardian Extensions: Helping Builders Out
|Date: 24 July, 2018

Guardian Extensions: Helping Builders Out
A new approach to the home improvement market can help builders extend their options in more ways than on ...
A new approach to the home improvement market can help builders extend their options in more ways than one. It comes with the territory: snow, wind, rain and plummeting temperatures means that traditi ...
24 July, 2018
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Construction Insurance Terms Explained
|Date: 20 July, 2018

Construction Insurance Terms Explained
Confusing insurance jargon has been baffling builders for years but now an expert is launching a crusade ...
Confusing insurance jargon has been baffling builders for years but now an expert is launching a crusade against frustrating terminology. Mark Herbert at ConstructionInsure.co.uk has launched his own ...
20 July, 2018
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Let’s Talk Concrete Roof Tiles
|Date: 18 July, 2018

Let’s Talk Concrete Roof Tiles
Slimmer, lighter, more attractive and quicker to fix, it’s no surprise that thin leading edge concrete in ...
Slimmer, lighter, more attractive and quicker to fix, it’s no surprise that thin leading edge concrete interlocking slates are a popular choice with many roofers. But what’s all the fuss about? Tom Wo ...
18 July, 2018
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Inside the Dulux Academy (Part One)
|Date: 12 July, 2018

Inside the Dulux Academy (Part One)
In this series, Professional Builder Online has teamed up with the Dulux Academy for a behi ...
In this series, Professional Builder Online has teamed up with the Dulux Academy for a behind the scenes look at what training courses can offer an experienced professional. First up is ...
12 July, 2018
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New Website Hopes to Deter Tool Theft
|Date: 9 July, 2018

New Website Hopes to Deter Tool Theft
A former tradesman is hoping to reunite the industry’s victims of crime with their tools with the he ...
A former tradesman is hoping to reunite the industry’s victims of crime with their tools with the help of the Tool Trace registration system. Professional Builder's Lee Jones reports. For a trade ...
9 July, 2018
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Installing Panoramic Doors: An Alternative to Bi-Fold
|Date: 5 July, 2018

Installing Panoramic Doors: An Alternative to Bi-Fold
It was a case of its good bi fold hello Panoramic, as Professional Builder watches the installation of a ...
It was a case of its good bi fold hello Panoramic, as Professional Builder watches the installation of a totally new concept in patio doors. After more than three months with only a few well-worn shee ...
5 July, 2018
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BUILDERS WHEELS: Iveco Daily
|Date: 3 July, 2018

BUILDERS WHEELS: Iveco Daily
Professional Builder’s Lee Jones finds that a test drive in an Iveco Daily is certainly not a grind Even ...
Professional Builder’s Lee Jones finds that a test drive in an Iveco Daily is certainly not a grind Even a brief encounter with the drive quality of the Daily will reveal that this is a manufacturer t ...
3 July, 2018
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Use the Correct Roof Ventilation to Prevent Condensation
|Date: 22 June, 2018

Use the Correct Roof Ventilation to Prevent Condensation
Tom Woodhouse, Site Services Manager at Marley Eternit, explains how correct roof ventilation can prevent ...
Tom Woodhouse, Site Services Manager at Marley Eternit, explains how correct roof ventilation can prevent costly callbacks for condensation problems. Our Site Services team and Technical Advisory Serv ...
22 June, 2018
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