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    Hand-Made Clay Roof Tiles From Brookhurst

    Nearly fifty thousand Brookhurst hand-made plain clay roofing tiles adorn and protect a stylish Scandia-H ...

    Nearly fifty thousand Brookhurst hand-made plain clay roofing tiles adorn and protect a stylish Scandia-Hus residence in West Sussex. Brookhurst tiles are made from the highest quality clay material u ...

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    Redland's Guide to Securing Small Cuts of Roof Tiles

    Securing small cuts of roof tiles, particularly those where the nail holes have been removed, can make li ...

    Securing small cuts of roof tiles, particularly those where the nail holes have been removed, can make life difficult for roofers to comply with BS 5534 and the NHBC’s fixing guidelines that require a ...

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    National Domelight Company Considers Light Options

    Scott Chouldrey, of rooflight specialist the National Domelight company, considers the options for allowi ...

    Scott Chouldrey, of rooflight specialist the National Domelight company, considers the options for allowing light into extensions and home renovations. We all know that being out in the sunshine boost ...

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    Roger Bisby Raises the Roof With Redland's Innofix Clip

    Roger Bisby tries out the Innofix Clip from Redland Despite the change in the standard BS 5534 Code of Pr ...

    Roger Bisby tries out the Innofix Clip from Redland Despite the change in the standard BS 5534 Code of Practice for Roof Slating and Tiling there are still a lot of roofers out there laying interlocki ...

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    Watch: Brett Martin's Guide to Installing Guttering

    Follow Brett Martin's step by step guide to installing Cascade Cast Iron Style guttering and downpipe and ...

    Follow Brett Martin's step by step guide to installing Cascade Cast Iron Style guttering and downpipe and achieve the traditional look and feel of cast iron with all the benefits of modern plastics ma ...

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    Step-by-Step: Installing a Dry Verge

    Changes to the British Standard code of practice for slating and tiling, BS 5534, have paved the way for ...

    Changes to the British Standard code of practice for slating and tiling, BS 5534, have paved the way for Redland’s latest system, the Rapid Verge and Ambi-Dry Verge for Redland 49 tiles and Fenland Pa ...

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    Marley Eternit Sitework App

      A new, easy-to-use app delivering 90 years of roofing installation, compliance and specification e ...

      A new, easy-to-use app delivering 90 years of roofing installation, compliance and specification expertise to the fingertips of contractors has been made available as a free download on Google ...

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    Fakro: Flat Roof Windows

    For years, when it came to installing windows in a flat roof, builders and home owners never had much in ...

    For years, when it came to installing windows in a flat roof, builders and home owners never had much in the way of choice. All that changed with the introduction of a range from Fakro which, at a str ...

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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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    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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    Icopal's Seal-a-Leak

    Roger Bisby takes to the roof with Seal-a-Leak from Icopal A few years ago I went down to Ashford in Kent ...

    Roger Bisby takes to the roof with Seal-a-Leak from Icopal A few years ago I went down to Ashford in Kent to look at a church roof being sprayed with Sealoflex. There was an on-going problem with lead ...

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    Lumen Talks Rooflights

      Not all rooflights are created equal, according to Paul Trace, MD of Lumen Rooflights. The old ada ...

      Not all rooflights are created equal, according to Paul Trace, MD of Lumen Rooflights. The old adage of ‘you get what you pay for’ is often true, yet, whilst most of us appreciate that a higher ...

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    SoloFix Roof Clipping System

    SoloFix is the innovative one piece clip and nail from Marley Eternit   Camilleri Roofing has saved up to ...

    SoloFix is the innovative one piece clip and nail from Marley Eternit   Camilleri Roofing has saved up to 30% on roof clipping time by using SoloFix, a one piece clip and nail developed by Marley Eter ...

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    See the Light: Velux Discusses the Daylight Factor

    Velux Product Manager, Grant Sneddon, discusses the daylight factor in building design and how to choose ...

    Velux Product Manager, Grant Sneddon, discusses the daylight factor in building design and how to choose a window layout that maximises light. Daylight has been an important feature of building develo ...

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    Forster Roofing Invests in Next Generation

    Scotland’s leading roofing and roof-integrated solar contractor, Forster Roofing, has launched its own in ...

    Scotland’s leading roofing and roof-integrated solar contractor, Forster Roofing, has launched its own in-house Skills Academy to train the next generation and directly tackle the challenge faced by t ...

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    Better Slate Than Never: JRC Specialist Slate Suppliers

    It’s had its ups and downs but few products can stand the test of time better than slate. The slate indus ...

    It’s had its ups and downs but few products can stand the test of time better than slate. The slate industry in the UK can trace its history back to Wales during the Roman period. Those über developer ...

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