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Transparent Architecture Online From CANTIFIX
CANTIFIX the award winning specialists in glass structures, now offer a superb range of products, along with comprehensive advice, and a help guide, from it’s easy to navigate on-line shop.
Whether you are looking for folding doors, sliding doors, hinged doors, windows, glass roofs or glass floors, a visit to their new website will both inspire and inform you.
The featured glass floor has been engineered to allow people to walk and stand on it.
These floors are both practical and stylish and permit light to be transferred between floors in your home, without restricting the floor space.
The glass floor is available in either clear, sandblasted or low iron glass.
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MyHammer Launches New Trades & Services Portal
Building on its success as the market leader in Germany, MyHammer means to revolutionise the UK trade services market and has now launched its interactive website, which aims to take the hassle out of home improvement, for consumers.
From putting up shelves to fitting a whole new kitchen, MyHammer offers a one-stop-shop for any home improvement job.
Through its approval process, users are assured in the knowledge that all tradesmen’s qualifications are verified, and the customer feedback mechanism provides further reassurance, when selecting the right tradesman for the job.
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Inspirational Flights Of Fancy From Stairflight
Stairflight Ltd has been established in the UK for over 10 years, specialising in the manufacture and supply of exclusive contemporary staircases, from standard to spiral and bespoke designs.
Typically a new home interior would have a white pine staircase with traditional wooden spindles.
Now however, Stairflight offer a distinctive new system, where the staircase is completely open and appears to hang from the wall, allowing more light and space in your room.
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Homeowners Now Investing In Present Homes
Architect Your Home, are leading suppliers of architectural services for the homeowner market in the UK.
They have recently conducted a survey of over 500 respondents, which revealed that aspiring homeowners are now actively investing in their homes to avoid the ‘dead money’ involved with moving.
Hugo Tugman, architectural expert and founder of Architect Your Home commenting on the results, said:
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Self Build & Renovation Show 6th To 9th March 2008
The National Self Build & Renovation Centre is to host its second Self Build & Renovation Show at the Renovation Centre, just off Junction 16 of the M4 next month, (Thursday 6th – Sunday 9th March 2008).
The show is offering a unique practical learning experience for anyone interested in building their dream home.
With a shortage of the right kind of affordable homes and uncertainty in the existing property market, ‘doing it yourself’, whether self building or renovating, to create a home that is compatible with individual lifestyles’ is becoming more appealing and is a very realistic option for many people looking to get on, or move up, the property ladder.
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Save Money And Energy With Solar Panels From B&Q
With colder winter nights and mornings now upon us, many people are boosting their home heating to keep warm, which means that their energy bills and carbon footprint will go up!
Easy and cost effective advice is available from B&Q on how to make your home more energy efficient and lower your bills and your impact on the environment this winter.
Why not consider Solar Panels, which can deliver supplementary hot water directly into your existing hot water cylinder, or integrated with your combi boiler system to help cut your fuel bills – saving you money as well as reducing the effects of global warming.
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Self Cleaning/Solar Control With Pilkington Activ Neutral
Following the success of Pilkington Activ™ and Pilkington Activ™ Blue, the maker of the world’s first self-cleaning glass has extended its range to include another product, specifically designed to help keep conservatories clean and cool all year round.
Pilkington Activâ„¢ Neutral is a revolutionary new double-coated glass that combines dual-action, self-cleaning properties with solar control performance and is perfect for use in glass extensions and conservatory roofs and windows.
As the name suggests, Pilkington Activâ„¢ Neutral is neutral in colour and particularly suitable for conservatories, glass extensions, skylights and large French doors, to allow natural uninterrupted views of surrounding gardens.
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Stunning Home Interior Cast-Stonework From Haddonstone
Haddonstone – a world-renowned manufacturer of cast stone garden ornaments and architectural features – can also provide spectacular cast stonework for use
inside almost any home.
The extensive range of architectural features, including half columns, balustrading and cladding can be used to enhance any design scheme, whether contemporary, classical or traditional:
As illustrated here, Haddonstone can provide the cast stonework for stunning orangeries.
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The Garage Conversion Company’s One Stop Shop
Why not convert your cold and under-used garage into a warm and habitable extra room, with the potential to increase the value of your house significantly?
Your options are endless but here are a few ideas to inspire you:
A family room, a bedroom with or without en-suite, playroom, home office/study, kitchen/utility room, dining room or even a home cinema.
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Pilkington’s energiKare Glass Reduces Fuel Bills And CO2
Pilkington, developers of the world’s first self-cleaning glass are launching a new glass called energiKare, which will help home-owners reduce fuel bills and their carbon footprint.
energiKare has been specifically designed to cut energy loss from the home and is twice as efficient as standard double-glazing, meaning homeowners save between £80-£100 off annual heating bills.
The new glass reduces the net heat loss from windows, by allowing more heat from the sun in through the window (known as solar gain) and in turn reducing the amount of heat loss from inside the home.
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