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A number of residents and business owners in Llandudno have backed an appeal by one trader against the local council, which has that demanded that she replaces her uPVC double glazed windows with single glazing. Cindy Atay, who owns a restaurant in the town’s Upper Mostyn Street – a conservation area – said she had [...]

The value of new private housing projects for the first three months of 2011 plummeted by 61% against the year before, a new report by survey by construction information firm Glenigan has said. Overall, the Glenigan Index showed a decline of 31% through the construction sector as a whole, which the company attributed to reduced [...]

Trade fabricator Modplan has said that sales of its coloured and foiled PVCu products have weathered the downturn facing the glazing industry. “The increase is coming from the replacement of the replacement sector,” said Heidi Sachs, the firm’s managing director. “This is good news for us, of course, but it’s also good news for the [...]

Glazing prices are set to rise after the recent Japanese earthquake lead to the temporary closure of the Toray Fine Chemicals Company facility in Chiba, north of Tokyo, which manufactures 30% of Western Europe’s polysulphide polymer. Earlier this month, Toray announced a ‘force majeure’ – a clause that frees it from meeting its obligations in [...]

Rugby Double Glazing has become the latest independent to fall foul of the economic downturn after entering liquidation on January 26. The company, which had been operating for more than 20 years and employed 18 staff, has called in Coventry-based BRI Business Recovery and Insolvency to look for a potential buyer. Director of BRI, John [...]

Safestyle UK, one of the country’s largest double glazing firms, has said the recent cold weather has lead to an increase of 28% in TV, radio and online related sales in the fourth quarter of 2010. “Our sales figures have been excellent. There has been a real rush of customers wanting our new uPVC windows [...]

Households across the country are set to face an increase in energy bills after the coldest December on record, with price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com estimating that the average combined gas and electricity winter bill will be £437 this month. “Brits will be brought back down to earth with a bump this New Year when a [...]

A Birkenhead family have said that they fear being forced out of their Grade II listed home after having the ‘wrong windows’ installed. Pat O’Hara, a construction worker, has claimed he is being ‘persecuted’ for his decision to install double glazing as he and his wife now face a bill of more than £35,000 from [...]

The government’s Green Deal programme could see expensive foreign holidays given away as prizes to to people that take out a loan to install insulation or double glazing in their homes. The Green Deal scheme, first announced by the Labour government and continued by the coalition, promises to lend the money for an “energy efficiency [...]

Next to Anglian, Everest are probably the best known double glazing company in the UK, and like the Norwich-based firm, their history has had its fair share of twists and turns. Everest, headquartered in Cuffley, Hertfordshire, began life in 1965 and now employees over 900 sales consultants and 700 installers across the UK. The company [...]