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PRO INSTALLER SEPTEMBER 2013
PRO NEWS
@proinstaller1
GIVE YOUR
CUSTOMERS
WHAT THEY
WANT
Doors can define the character of a property
but getting it right for your customers
can be something of a dark art.
Aesthetics will clearly
play a major role in
product choice but
alongside them there
are also a number of
additional considerations - security, performance and energy
efficiency to name but
a few.
Safedoor Scotland’s range
of over 30 standard styles
of GRP composite doors
will not crack, bow, warp
or dent, offer the highest
security options, energy
efficiency and are available in a range of attractive
through colours including
white, black, red, blue,
green, golden oak, rosewood and 15 sha des of
grey, all offering a white
internal finish or oak
and rosewood finishes
internally and externally.
There is also the option
of colour-matched frames
available.
Furthermore, Safedoor
Scotland has made it simple
for its trade customers to
give their customers exactly
what they want! By using
the door designer facility
online customers have the
chance to pick their exact
requirements in a door including styles, side panels,
top lights, finishes, glass
and hardware options, and
most importantly they can
walk away with an illustration of their finished
product. The door designer
also provides a hassle free
option for requesting a
quotation.
Safedoor is a product specification you can trust to deliver and combines the UK’s
bestselling GRP composite
door leaf over the last 20
years, with the selling power
of Yale hardware, and the
unique benefits of the UK’s
most successful specialist
composite door frame
system from Profile 22;
all of this assisting you to
turn a dark art into a craft.
Visit www.safedoor-scotland.co.uk/designer
Essential for
Prosperity
CAB Chief Executive, Justin Ratcliffe
reflects on the recent Government
Construction Summit and argues
that we need both Investment and
Fair Payment…
“The long awaited Government Spending Review and Government Construction
Summit in August both gave some new
insight into the government’s construction
strategy to 2025. The Review saw £20 billion committed to schools and £3.3 billion
to affordable housing during the life of the
next Parliament. The Strategy document
that followed set some bold targets to 2025
such as a 33% reduction in the initial cost of
construction and the whole life cost of built
assets. A little lost in the launch headlines
was the promise that there would be a new
Government Fair Payment Charter before
the end of 2013, an issue on which CAB has
lobbied hard for over the years.
I felt, however, that there was a complete
lack of assessment of the construction
sector as it is now and while 2025 is not
far away, for some businesses just getting
to 2015 will be a challenge after at least 5
to 6 very tough years where volumes have
held up but margins have taken a battering. The announcements or should I say
clarifications of a number of infrastructure
projects did provide some excellent forward
planning information but the government
strategy document does make the following
admission in that, ‘Construction has been
hard hit by the economic downturn. The impact of this is being particularly felt among
the many small businesses that operate
across the sector. The industry is failing to
create the conditions for its supply chains to
thrive. This needs to change.’
Lack of fair payment is an issue that has
impacted heavily on the sector and this was
‘The industry is failing to
create the conditions for
its supply chains to thrive.
This needs to change.’
‘around £36 billion was
owed to SME businesses,
an amount that affected
over 124,000 companies’
emphasised only a few weeks ago on the
Today programme by Debbie Abrahams
MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth who
convened and chaired a cross-party parliamentary inquiry about how to tackle late
payment. The summary recommendations
are listed at http://www.debbieabrahams.
org.uk/2013/late-payments-report-published.
Debbie explained that around £36 billion
was owed to SME businesses, an amount
that affected over 124,000 companies. Sadly
within that figure are a large number of
firms within the construction sector including CAB members. During the same programme it was alleged that Tier 1 Suppliers
on the whole were tending to pay on time,
but it appeared did not apply further down
the supply chain. The Fair Payment Charter
promised by government is certainly a start
but much more still needs to be done and
CAB will be highlighting the issues and
recommendations within the report and
its members’ concerns at the Construction
Products Association Parliamentary Reception on 22nd October. The simple fact is
that for long term prosperity in our sector
we critically need BOTH investment and fair
payment.”
Council for Aluminium in Building, Tel.
01453 828851