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Making sure the HIP pack contains a decent EPC
Author: Martin | Leave a Comment >>Whether you are thinking of buying or selling a home, it is wise to give some advanced thought to what you should look for/need in a HIPS pack. An EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) is an important document that is required. What are Energy Performance Certificates?
If you want to impress a prospective purchaser, and make your home as saleable as possible, it is wise to ensure your property is as highly energy efficient as possible, to enable your property to get a decent rating, making it a more attractive proposition than a property that will cost a fortune to heat and have a huge carbon footprint. If you want your home to have a decently rated Energy Performance Certificate, ensure that your boiler has…
Hazlemere’s step by step conservatory buyer’s guide (2)
Author: Hazlemere Windows | Leave a Comment >>(week two)
Buying a conservatory is a significant investment which, like many purchases, needs to be sufficiently researched and considered with care. Whatever it is you want to use your conservatory for, getting the right conservatory will transform your home and ultimately increase the value of your property.
So, with this is mind we want to share our bespoke conservatory buyers guide so you can buy the conservatory of your dreams with confidence and peace of mind. Our no-nonsense guide will enable you to evaluate, compare and hopefully find the right conservatory that compliments your home.Although you can download our buyers guide in its entirety from the Hazlemere website, we’ve decided to break it down into digestible chunks for you. Every week we will provide…
Green properties could make bills cheaper say UIA
Author: Martin | Leave a Comment >>In an article on the UIA website entitled “Green properties could make bills cheaper for home insurance customers” by Victor Onuohae he states that “Home insurance customers could make alterations to their property to make it eco-friendly – and may, as a result, enjoy significant savings on their energy bills.”
Chairman of the climate change committee Lord Adair Turner has urged people to take “a whole house approach” and splash out on making their home greener.
But Gordon Miller, founder of whatgreenhome.com, suggested that: “Lord Turner is putting the cart before the horse a little bit here. Most people in the UK haven’t even done the basics yet”.
Simple home improvements, such as adding insulation and choosing an efficient boiler, can save homeowners cash…
Hazlemere’s step by step conservatory buyer’s guide (1)
Author: Hazlemere Windows | Leave a Comment >>(week one)
Buying a conservatory is a major investment which, like all such purchases, needs to be comprehensively researched and considered with care. Whatever it is you want to use your conservatory for, getting the right conservatory will transform your home and ultimately add value to your property.
So, with this is mind we want to share our bespoke conservatory buyers guide so you can buy the conservatory of your dreams – with confidence and peace of mind. Our no-nonsense guide will enable you to evaluate, compare and hopefully find the right conservatory that compliments your home.
Although you can download our buyers guide in its entirety from the Hazlemere website, we’ve decided to break it down into digestible sections for you. Once a…
Double glazing is fundamentally just a wall!
Author: Martin | Leave a Comment >>Whether you have a single glazed window in a property or a single glazed window with secondary glazing or a modern double glazed window, or even a super duper triple glazed window, they all perform the same function of forming a barrier between the elements and the interior, in effect acting as transparent walls.
A cross section of a wall can either be a thick slab of building material or normally two walls with a cavity in between, as these double walls provide insulated protection between the interior and exterior. The air between the walls allows the outside wall to be cold while the inside surface of the wall can be at room temperature.
For example, when building a conservatory, it is important to…
Hazlemere’s quick windows and doors estimator
Author: Martin | Leave a Comment >>To assist homeowners take their own window and door measurements, Hazlemere Windows have produced a “Quick Windows & Doors Estimator” This guide, designed to enable you to take your own accurate measurements, can be downloaded from their website, and once completed, brought into Hazlemere’s High Wycombe Showroom on Cressex Business Park (which is open 7 days a week) or posted, or faxed, or even scanned and emailed.
One of Hazlemere Windows experienced expert window and door consultants will then take your measurements and come up with a no obligation “on the spot” estimate. Should you then want a firm no obligation written quotation for you to consider in your own time, they will arrange a convenient time to come and have a look…
Lets have a national windows scrappage scheme
Author: Martin | Leave a Comment >>There has been alot of online activity from consumers to find out whether or not there is in fact a government national windows scrappage scheme. Such a financially helpful scheme would not only assist hard pressed householders, during these recessionary times, but also act as an incentive to property owners to fit the latest technologically advanced energy efficient energy saving double glazed windows, as well as be a much needed boost to double glazing installers, challenged by rising raw material costs and a mature declining market.
Two national double glazing companies currently have their own sales and marketing “discount” schemes to try and generate new sales under a “national scrappage scheme” banner. However as Renegade Conservatory Guy points out on his blog it was…
Hazlemere Commercial Install 70m Bideford Roof Light
Author: Martin | Leave a Comment >>Hazlemere Commercial’s £2.2m contract to install aluminium commercial doors, windows and curtain walling at Bideford College in Devon is on schedule for completion early in the New Year, whilst the main contractor is not due to do the final handover until the Autumn of 2010. Now the vast majority of the energy saving double glazing has been fitted, the internal works can get underway at a pace.
One major feature of this sustainability project is an aluminium sloping curtain wall 70 metre rooflight. All the commercial aluminium window and door frames on this redevelopment project have been fabricated by Hazlemere Commercial using 100% re-cycled aluminium billet. Working in conjunction with main contractors Morgan Ashurst on this £44m exciting project (funded under the Governments’s Building…
Ensure replacement windows meet building regulations
Author: Martin | Leave a Comment >>Nowadays any replacement glazing, whether single or double glazed, comes within the scope of the Building Regulations, to the point where anyone who installs replacement windows or doors in domestic premises must comply with current thermal performance standards.
As the FENSA homeowner page on the FENSA website explains: “The reason for this is to reduce energy loss in line with Government policy. The Building Regulations have controlled glazing in new buildings for many years but this represents only a very small percentage of our total building stock. It is essential to improve the performance of the much larger number of existing buildings if we are to meet increasingly stringent national and global energy saving targets.”
“When the time comes to sell your property, your…
Can your double glazing installer comply with the rules?
Author: Hazlemere Windows | Leave a Comment >>During a pre-arranged visit in response to a request for a double glazing quotation, one of Hazlemere’s senior sales consultants was presented with “The Rules” when arriving for a double glazing appointment in South Bucks, and was asked to read them before any discussions took place. Naturally our sales consultant had no problem complying with the customers wishes. Having subsequently been privileged to read “The Rules”, I was both a) so impressed, and b) so amused, I thought it would be helpful to share them:
Rule 1: “You can only quote for budgetary purposes on the windows at the moment. If the price seems reasonable you can do accurate measurements at another time to confirm accurate prices.”
Rule 2: “Quote on the simplest UVPC in…
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