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    Apprentice Profile: Heat Engineer Sophie Jenkins

    Award winner Sophie Jenkins is paving the way for women in the sustainable energy industry. At the Geberi ...

    Award winner Sophie Jenkins is paving the way for women in the sustainable energy industry. At the Geberit Awards, 25-year old Sophie Jenkins won the Young Apprentice of the Year Award for her work as ...

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    Watch: Build a Work Station with Bosch

    The Multi Bench with L-BOXX Storage provides the woodworker with a solution to a common problem of space. ...

    The Multi Bench with L-BOXX Storage provides the woodworker with a solution to a common problem of space. You no longer need separate storage and working areas in the workshop; your tools are all with ...

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    Cembrit Ridge Tiles

    The choice of ridge tile is the height of importance on any roofing project. Ged Ferris, Marketing Manage ...

    The choice of ridge tile is the height of importance on any roofing project. Ged Ferris, Marketing Manager at Cembrit, explains why. In the vast majority of cases, the top of a pitched slate or tiled ...

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    Roof Truss Project

    Rock Trading & Distribution, a long standing Alpine licenced roof truss manufacturer, supplied 56 att ...

    Rock Trading & Distribution, a long standing Alpine licenced roof truss manufacturer, supplied 56 attic profiles for a self-build dormer bungalow conversion nestled in a picturesque valley overloo ...

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    Velux Saving Daylight

    Velux product manager, Grant Sneddon, offers advice on selecting the best daylight solutions for your nex ...

    Velux product manager, Grant Sneddon, offers advice on selecting the best daylight solutions for your next project. Light plays an incredibly important role in our daily lives. Given that as a nation, ...

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    Datatag ID: Small Tools, Big Losses

    Datatag ID, the power behind the CEA’s official CESAR security and registration scheme, has introduced Mi ...

    Datatag ID, the power behind the CEA’s official CESAR security and registration scheme, has introduced Micro-CESAR, a new anti-theft deterrent for small tools and equipment. With criminals employing i ...

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    ISO-Chemie: Airtightness Vs. Ventilation

    Peter Thompson, General Manager of ISO-Chemie UK, gives insight into the trade-off between airtightness a ...

    Peter Thompson, General Manager of ISO-Chemie UK, gives insight into the trade-off between airtightness and ventilation in sealing products.   The legal requirement to consider airtightness in bu ...

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    Thompson's: Waterproofing Masonry

    Thompson’s Development Chemist, Ross Sellars, offers some advice on tackling chimneys and the importance ...

    Thompson’s Development Chemist, Ross Sellars, offers some advice on tackling chimneys and the importance of waterproofing. All masonry chimney construction materials will suffer accelerated deteriorat ...

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    Rockwool Sound Insulation

    James Mills, product manager at Rockwool, takes a look at the build-up of noise in our homes and why this ...

    James Mills, product manager at Rockwool, takes a look at the build-up of noise in our homes and why this could be good news for builders We’re becoming more sensitive about the intrusion of noise in ...

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    Closing the Skills Gap: Adary Joiners

    With the industry staring at the threat of a future skills crisis, Professional Builder’s Lee Jones talks ...

    With the industry staring at the threat of a future skills crisis, Professional Builder’s Lee Jones talks to one small building business which is championing the cause of apprentices. The Adary Joiner ...

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    CRPS: The Risks of Construction

    According to the HSE, the Construction sector accounts for around 6% of the UK workforce, around 69,000 o ...

    According to the HSE, the Construction sector accounts for around 6% of the UK workforce, around 69,000 of whom are suffering due to work each year.   In this article, Melanie Burden, expert lawy ...

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    Watch: Jeld-Wen's Guide to Installing Bi-Fold Doors

    Bi-fold doors are an ideal room dividing solution and perfect for small spaces like closets, cupboards or ...

    Bi-fold doors are an ideal room dividing solution and perfect for small spaces like closets, cupboards or bathrooms. Fitting a bi-fold door isn’t as complicated as it may sound, which is why JELD-WEN ...

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    Professional Builder Live!

    The nation's favourite building magazine is about to get a life of its own! As if being the happiest plac ...

    The nation's favourite building magazine is about to get a life of its own! As if being the happiest place to live in Britain, and the third most romantic location in the world to visit, wasn’t enough ...

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    “Sites” For Sore Eyes

    As a vision, 2020 certainly has a rather nice clarity to it. And the Government’s latest initiatives to c ...

    As a vision, 2020 certainly has a rather nice clarity to it. And the Government’s latest initiatives to create 200,000 new homes annually by that magic date will clearly have caught the blinking eye o ...

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    Takeuchi: 20 Years in the UK

    Professional Builder's Lee Jones tracks the progress of Takeuchi as the company celebrates twenty years i ...

    Professional Builder's Lee Jones tracks the progress of Takeuchi as the company celebrates twenty years in the UK Since its arrival on these shores back in 1996 the manufacturer from the land of the r ...

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    Out in the Cold: Working for the British Antarctic Survey

    Carpenter Tom Griffin has been working in one of the most remote regions of the world for over a year, bu ...

    Carpenter Tom Griffin has been working in one of the most remote regions of the world for over a year, but the idea that the Antarctic is a cold and lonely place cuts no ice with him. During winter, t ...

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