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Hit & Killed Instantly By Plummeting Window

Two major companies have been fined a combined £1.3 million over the death of man who was killed when a side-hung...

Enhancing The Entrance Door Opportunity

Fabricator Sternfenster has taken on DoorCo’s BRiTDOR solid timber core to enhance its entrance door range and...

Scandalous Parking Fines – The Fightback Begins

Number-plate cameras photograph your plate. Software issues A PCN or speeding ticket without a human ever looking at...

Tool Theft Fury Builds Basis For Conference

Fix Radio for tradespeople, in partnership with Wickes TradePro, is bringing the industry together at a Tool Theft...

Sprouting Doors And Brochures

ECDS has released two new brochures covering its Living and Studio collections. It comes as the company defies market...

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IotM Winner Has Goth The Lot

Retaining gothic character while delivering great thermal performance and living conditions has earned Jadeite Glazing...

A Super Soaraway Greggs Giveaway

Running from Monday 21 September, installers are being invited to put their best Sheerline S1 roof lantern projects...

A Lasting Alliance With Alliance

Alliance Building Plastics, a family-run independent merchant based in Poole in Dorset, has stocked Freefoam Building...

Fire Door Ignorance & The Terror Of E-Bikes

Fire Door Safety Week started on Monday with a message to residents to ‘check it, close it: protection starts at...

Rocky Rayner Refuses To Recant

What chance 1.5 million homes by August 2029? Angela Rayner has unsteadily said it’s a slim chance if councils get...

Window Firms Outed As Minimum Wage Cheats

Nail bars and fast-food outlets perhaps but we don’t expect window firms not to even pay minimum wage. Yet three...

The Only Way To Triple – Essex Firm Expands

Essex fabricator LSF Commercial has tripled capacity for its aluminium windows and doors after a year of factory...

A Quid Pro Quote

The Decorio steel-look aluminium range is now on Tommy Trinder's Framepoint App that gives installers instant,...

Ferry Good For Bromborough Homes

Vistry has submitted a Reserved Matters planning application for 534 new homes on the Wirral adjacent to the River...

Barred – Code Or Go

CTSI has had its say on new plans to stop householders being robbed of £billions each year by rogue traders, while...

High Noon For Rogue Traders

PM Burnham & deputies will dance with the wolves & cowboys who wreck homes, exploit the elderly and slope off...

Raise Glass For Megadeal

The 'Just Add Glass' megadeal deal on sliding patio doors from BSW Window Solutions has now been extended to...

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Safe & Secure Quotes To Completion

In the fight against rogue traders, Trusted Payments is working with TrustMark registered businesses to securely manage...

Summer Days, Leads Drifted Away

August's Business Pilot Barometer shows conversion rates and average order values strengthening but enquiries...

Less Planning, More Doing

A new AI prototype that aims to massively cut decision times for routine planning applications is now being tested in...

Burnham’s £Billions Back Council Building

Only 250,000 council houses have been built since 1981. Now Burnham & Rayner have released the first tranche of a...

Bailout For Embattled Builder

‘Too big to fail’ housebuilder Vistry has been handed a massive government bailout in the initial sum of...

Free Suicide Prevention Training For Construction

Ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, online training has been launched to increase awareness and reduce the suicide...

Homes Under The Hammer

Research by Zoopla has found that 86% of homes have stagnated in value. This is a positive for home improvement firms...

The Scandal Of The Building Safety Levy

From October, SME housing developers will pay a levy to rectify high-rise defects they never caused. International...