Conservatories
OFF-SITE GARDEN ROOM OPPORTUNITIES
» BACKED BY FORMER Polyframe director Martyn Buckley , Making Your Space is the garden room partner for the trade thanks to a dedicated manufacturing facility and product range that ’ s been designed with the adoption of the latest off-site construction techniques .
The UK market for garden rooms is expected to explode in 2022 and beyond as an increasing number of consumers look to work from home , while the others look for a gym , reading or music room , cinema pod , space for the kids or as a place to entertain . There ’ s no planning permission required and all that ’ s needed is a suitable flat base and a low voltage electricity feed , with the preparation already made in the factory for ease of installation and typically delivered on two to three pallets .
These modular garden rooms have been designed with quick-fix SIPS construction wall cassettes that simply slot into place and clip together . Estimated build times are around two to three days from start to completion , prior to any additional works e . g . plastering and there are a wide range of aluminium and PVCu windows and doors incorporated within the design options , along with an EPDM roof .
There ’ s a strong brand behind this trade only product proposition with brochures , installation and product specification guides and a unique garden room builder on the website at makingyourspace . co . uk , where everything can be built in 3D and priced directly with the consumer with pre-determined profit margins . This software module can also be placed on the websites of Design Partners too , which is based on the Business Micros new TOUCH platform .
Ryan Crossley , director of Making Your Space commented : “ We believe that this is the perfect garden room proposition for the trade , and we ’ ve spent the last 12 months getting everything right from marketing , product design and business operations with a four-week delivery . We ’ re already putting on training days for installers and are actively looking for Design Partners from across the UK .”
www . makingyourspace . co . uk
Will hardware partnering be sheer success ?
» HARDWARE SPECIALIST VBH has announced that it has been working with aluminium systems house Garnalex to develop the hardware solution for the new Sheerline bi-fold door .
The new bi-fold allows up to a seven pane configuration , the choice of fitting it as an outward or inward opening door , and offers four different threshold combinations .
With doors measuring up to 6.5m wide x 2.6m high and possibly triple glazed , Garnalex ’ s choice of hardware had to be sufficiently strong and hard wearing to cope with large , heavy sashes .
VBH ’ s greenteQ design team worked closely with their counterparts at Garnalex , with the result being the greenteQ Clearspan hardware system for Sheerline with a weight capacity of 120kg per sash . greenteQ ’ s bi-fold hardware for other systems is tried and tested and is favoured by fabricators and installers . Clearspan for Sheerline is designed with everyone in the supply chain in mind ; it is quick and easy to put together and there is ample adjustment for installers .
Clearspan is available in a standard version and in a PAS24:2016 tested security spec that features the greenteQ Orion TS007 3 star profile cylinder . Being a 3 star cylinder , this enables the fabricator to fit either the greenteQ Alpha Slim lever handle set , or the standard Alpha lever handle which is available in 10 colours of the greenteQ Suite of matching window door and patio furniture . As the Suite covers patio doors it enables installers to tie together a Full House installation , giving them an edge over their competition .
Companies offering Sheerline doors built to VBH ’ s PAS24 hardware spec can join the Q-secure approved
partner network . The Q-secure consumer security guarantee will pay the end user up to £ 8000 in compensation in the unlikely event that a break in is achieved due to hardware failure .
Simon Monks , MD of VBH says : “ I ’ m personally delighted to be working with Garnalex , and am very pleased at the way that the two technical teams have worked together as one to bring this project to fruition ; it ’ s been seamless .”
www . vbhgb . com www . sheerline . com
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