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Your Zinc Roofing and Cladding questions from Ecobuild
What did our visitors at Ecobuild 2013 ask about when we launched our new Zinc and Copper Partnership? Visitors to the stand The Nedzink stand N453 was extremely well attended, and the Wednesday was...
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Reduce the Cost of Zinc Roofing and Cladding
Have you specified Zinc roofing or cladding in non-standard sizes and found it impossible to get a good price for its installation? Do you work on small building projects and feel that metals like zinc...
View ArticleMario Botta’s Garnet Chapel at Penkenjoch – how is it Waterproofed?
This is the amazing Garnet Chapel perched on the 2095m high Penkenjoch mountain in the Austrian Tyrol, designed by Mario Botta. Notwithstanding the challenges of building at this high altitude on a...
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Flat Roof Leaks and Failures: How to Prevent Them
We were contacted recently by one of our Main Contractor Clients about a failing flat roof they were looking at, so we arranged a survey. Here’s what we found. The existing asphalt waterproofing...
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Amphibious House Zinc Shingle Roof and Cladding
Tonight’s Grand Designs on Channel 4 features the Amphibious House – an innovative ‘floating’ house, the first of its kind in the UK. Here you can find out more about the zinc cladding that covers the...
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Best Practice: Metal Roofing and Cladding
It’s not just the type of metal, but what goes underneath that matters. Simon Walker, category manager for hard metals, on the dos and don’ts of specifying metal roofing and cladding. 1. Decide...
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Reducing Costs & Risk on School Roofing Projects
As competition for schools construction projects remains high and costs are driven down, the needs to meet standards of robustness, energy efficiency and acoustic performance don’t diminish; if...
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Mastic Asphalt – an Introduction
In this post we introduce mastic asphalt, a centuries old roofing material that is still in use today in both traditional and more modern forms. In the next post we’ll introduce some build-ups and...
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When to Use Mastic Asphalt
Following our introduction to the topic of Mastic Asphalt last week, today we’re writing about when you might come across mastic asphalt and which types of roofing and other projects it should be...
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Re-Roofing a Building when in Use: Vue Cinema Doncaster
When this multi-screen cinema on the outskirts of Doncaster needed a section of its asphalt flat roof refurbished as part of extension and maintenance works, the owners needed the building to stay open...
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New Website for Schools with Leaking Roofs
SIG Design & Technology has launched a new website specifically for schools, called FixMySchoolRoof.com. The website provides advice and information about school roofs, and explains how schools can...
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School Roof Refurbishment – Learn More
Back in June we reported on the launch of a new website for schools, fixmyschoolroof.com, which provides advice and information about school roofs, and explains how schools can obtain grant funding for...
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