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Where’s Your Bin?

Storage container specialist Algeco UK is helping UK businesses comply with new recycling rules that came in March, thanks to its range of...

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Too Little, Too Late For Affordable Housing

The announcement of £2 billion in grant funding for affordable housing will only cover the costs of building 1.2% of the government’s goal...

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Labour Breaks Pre-Election Homes Promise

Government plans to train 60,000 new construction workers to support its home building targets by 2029 have been ridiculed by the host of a national...

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It’s, It’s A Building Blitz

Over 100 sites across England have come forward to be considered for the next generation of new towns, under the biggest housebuilding push since the...

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The Procurement Act – Are You Ready To Win Government Contracts?

As part of broader reforms aimed at lowering barriers to SMEs obtaining public sector contracts, the UK government will introduce the Procurement Act...

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Government Procurement – A Statement of Intent

Thousands of small businesses are to benefit from new government buying rules which aim to provide opportunities to win valuable business with public...

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Potty Mouthed Tirade – PAC Goes Potty Over Potholes

The local roads that lead from supply chains to the houses where windows are being upgraded have been branded a ‘national embarrassment’...

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Toxic Taxman Slammed Before Returns Season

The Public Accounts Committee has slammed HMRC on several fronts just before tax return season when tax payers are desperate for help. It has been...

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Private Sector Not Looking Forward To A Happy Start To The Year

Private sector firms expect activity to fall in the three months to March according to the CBI’s latest Growth Indicator. Expectations are now...

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Latest Budget Raises Spectre Of The Ghost Of Truss Budget Past

Business confidence has slipped to its lowest level since the aftermath of Liz Truss' mini-budget in Autumn 2022. 63% of businesses say tax,...

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Businesses Plan To Cut Staff Following Disaster Budget

On Monday 25 November, the CEO of the Confederation of British Industry revealed data that shows its members plan to reduce headcount following the...

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A Slice Of Pie?

The demand for extensions and garden rooms is set to continue but installers that want a slice of this particular pie need to be offering over and...

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The Budget – All Of The Facts

The did she? didn’t she? game commenced straight after Rachel Reeves first budget – some arguing ‘working people’ didn’t...

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Big Hopes For The Return Of House Building & RMI

The Construction Products Association’s autumn forecast is cautiously optimistic for the housing new build and repair, maintenance and...

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Planning Approvals Halved In Government’s First 100 Days

The value of detailed planning approvals suffered in the three months to September, declining 47% against the previous year. The number of approved...

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We’re Not NIMBYs – The People Want House Building

New research has revealed that 90% of UK adults believe the UK needs more housing and 68% think it is needed within 5 miles of their home, so it is...

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Employment Rights Bill – What New Laws Will Look Like

Ministers have unveiled the Employment Rights Bill, with the claim that getting the labour market moving again is essential to economic growth with...

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New Towns Taskforce To Tackle Tory Failures

The New Towns Taskforce has held its first meeting and confirmed the final list of members as it pushes ahead to identify potential sites for new...

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Happy New Year – Glenigan Forecasts A bright 2025

Glenigan, the construction insight firm, has released its widely anticipated UK Construction Industry Forecast 2024-2026 which says the industry will...

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Without Buyers Labour Can’t Get Britain Building

Unless Labour has a solution that enables buyers to afford to buy houses, therefore incentivising builders to build, they will still be stuck with a...

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Reeves Peeved At Timid Torries – Building Boom Promised

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has promised to get Britain building houses and has pointed a finger at her ‘timid’ predecessors who...

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Election Deadline – What Are The Opportunities?

Could the general election present a window of opportunity? Asks Greg Beachim of First Degree Systems, the fabricator software firm and Cyncly which...

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House Building Still On A Nosedive

The latest figures from Glenigan suggest that construction performance is in a slower rate of decline after a protracted period of steep decline...

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What Does Construction Need From The Next Government?

With the election on the horizon and manifestos being a bit light on construction specifics apart from some nods at housing, some of the...

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Conservative Construction Manifesto – Great Vision…And Flawed Thinking

The Conservative party has launched its election manifesto under the title ‘Clear Action, Bold Action, Secure Future’. Most construction...

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Potholes Policies – Election Success Or Damnation?

Local authorities have been told to publish which roads they will fix with government pothole funding. Potholes have become such an issue that plans...

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Tool Theft – Trades To Go Rogue Before Parliament Is Prorogued

There will be a go-slow within Parliament until it is Prorogued and Monday 3 June 2024 will see a go-slow outside as furious tradespeople cause...

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Loving Labour Instead

Some conservative organisations that represent the construction and housing sector are showing more and more of a lean towards Labour policies that...

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Love Labour – Lost Tories

The Labour Party is winning plaudits for its policies on housebuilding while the Conservatives also have housing high on the political agenda –...

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Khan’s Kickstart

Before potentially being kicked out of office in a May election, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has unveiled a new £100m ‘Housing Kickstart...

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Real Living Wage Goes Up By 10%

  Over 460,000 Living Wage workers are set for a pay boost as 14,000 Living Wage employers are signed up to pay new rates – a 10%...

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Get Britain Building Could Bulldoze Building

Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer plan to build 1.5 million homes over five years if elected. They will fund it through reforms to stamp duty – but...

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Building – Stop Stalling Says Starmer

Labour plans to enshrine net zero in planning policy are welcome but must not undermine local democracy, the Campaign to Protect Rural England has...

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Has Sunak Slung Net Zero Under A Train?

Rishi Sunak has taken direct responsibility to scale back the UK’s efforts on achieving Net Zero 2050 – claiming that the country can...

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Windows Whacked Again - No CE Mark Extension For Fenestration

The Department for Business and Trade has announced the indefinite extension of the CE mark recognition – but not for construction products...

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UKCA Costs Are Colossal And Champs Are Chumps

The international delivery company, ParcelHero, has called the government, which championed the now-aborted UKCA safety mark scheme, chumps as it says...

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Will Gove’s Reforms Solve The Housing Crisis?

Michael Gove, with the backing of PM Rishi Sunak, has outlined his long-term, ten-point plan to ‘build a better Britain’, with new homes...

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Risky Ploughs Into Housing Promises

The government will meet its manifesto commitment to build 1 million homes over this Parliament, the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has promised –...

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Lofty Plans And Extensions – Gove’s Long-Term Plan For Housing

Michael Gove has set out plans for regeneration, inner-city ‘densification’ and housing delivery across England – along with plans...

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House Building Takes A Massive Nose Dive

A steep and accelerated downturn in house building caused UK construction companies to report a renewed decline in overall workloads in the month of...

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Grenfell Inspired Legislation Reviewed

The Door & Hardware Federation’s Michael Skelding, looks back on a year of Grenfell Tower tragedy inspired legislation and the resultant...

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Frustrated Installers Want Cowboys Fined

A new survey of Certass members has highlighted the frustration felt by installers regarding illegal and unregistered window installations by...

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Funds Allocated To School Refurbs Including For Windows

859 academies, sixth-form colleges and voluntary-aided schools will receive £456 million of funding to improve energy efficiency. Windows are...

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Yous Have To Do More Yousaf Says Homes for Scotland

Housebuilders north of the border are calling on Scotland's new first minister, Humza Yousaf, to engage with business and remove obstacles...

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Future Gazing, Glazing And The Future Homes Standard

In the continued drive to achieve net zero by 2050, the GGF has facilitated a meeting with Chris Beedel and its members and the Department of...

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More Women Needed In Scottish Construction

A more diverse construction workforce is at the heart of a new equity and inclusion plan launched in Scotland to give the building industry access to...

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UKCA Marking – Why Is The Government Ignoring The Obvious Solution?

Gary Shoesmith at Edgetech says leaving the EU product safety marking scheme is a mess – but at least the UK bureaucrats have conceded in...

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Delivery Rates Rise – What Will Your Window Shipments Cost?

The latest government figures show 56% of transport, logistics and storage companies faced higher costs in March, leading 37.3% of them to raise their...

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Cladding Tax – The Innocent Paying For The Guilty

In yet another damaging move for housebuilders already worried a recession could dampen the market, the government has announced that cladding...

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Dalton’s Weekly Crisis Challenge

The umbrella organisation representing the interest of high energy users, the Energy Intensive User Group,  has appointed the CEO of British...

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Help To Grow – Free Software From The Government

The Help to Grow: Digital Scheme launched recently provides businesses with discounts of up to £5,000 on approved digital accounting and...

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£2 Billion For Homes On Brownfield Land

Nearly £2 billion of public money needed to remediate 1,070 hectares of derelict or unused land to help build more new homes has been...

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New E10 Petrol - Could It Damage Your Vehicle?

More than a quarter of drivers (27%) are yet to check whether their car is compatible with new E10 petrol that arrived at forecourts in September and...

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The Safety Bill - Get Prepared

The government’s Building Safety Bill and its 53 recommendations to drive cultural change and safety improvements within the industry, has been...

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Call To End Construction Pingdemic To Avoid Supply Chain Collapse

The NFB has written to the Secretary of State for Health to ask that the changes to the self-isolation rules for double vaccinated Covid-negative...

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Labour Calls For Fight Of Planning Reforms

21 June saw Labour MPs table a debate motion and vote in a move to gain cross-party support for watering down the government's forthcoming...

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Are You Settled? Deadline For EU Workers Looming

Construction companies employing EU workers must ensure that their employees have applied for settled status in the UK before 30 June 2021, says tax...

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Green Homes Grant Needs More Time

The government is under pressure to extend the green homes grant scheme beyond March 2022 after a committee of MPs described current progress as...

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Green Homes Grant - A Botched Disaster Finds EAC

The Green Homes Grant's administration is nothing short of disastrous says the Environmental Audit Committee. It was wildly optimistic and its...

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Job Retention Focus For Budget 2021

In his 3 March Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak set out a £65 billion plan to support jobs and businesses emerging from the Covid pandemic. We...

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Can You Join In With Rapid Workplace Testing?

8 February saw the announcement of a new government drive to increase workplace testing in sectors open during lockdown, to detect coronavirus in...

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Can't Pay, Don't Pay - Chancellor Makes Loans Pay As You Grow

Businesses that took out government-backed Bounce Back Loans to get through Covid-19 will now have greater flexibility to repay their loans, the...

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Chancellor Extends Furlough And Loan Schemes

The furlough scheme has been extended until the end of April 2021 and the government-guaranteed Covid-19 business loan schemes will now run until the...

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Woefully Inadequate - Green Homes Grant Extended But Ridiculed

The Green Homes Grant voucher plan has been extended to March 2022 - but the Environment Audit Committee has said the scheme is 'woefully...

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Shovelling On The Brown Stuff

Funds to deliver up to 45,000 homes are part of a £1.3 billion package of investment, with £360 million going to deliver 26,000 new homes...

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Green Grant Could Cripple Industry It Is Supposed To Save

The Green Homes Grant plan has gone from being applauded to slated as jobs could be put on hold while homeowners wait for the scheme details to be...

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The Installer Magazine – April 2025

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Put Marketing On Top – The Roof That Protects Your Business

Put Marketing On Top – The Roof That Protects Your Business

Andrew Scott of Purplex argues that marketing should be the ‘roof’ that future-proofs your business in an adverse climate, such as the adverse climate we are encountering at the moment – a flat economy, increased labour and material costs and the spectre of creeping inflation. However, he writes, the nature of entrepreneurism always favours those who see opportunities, not problems.

 

Cover Story – Decorio & Timberlook – Heritage At Its Best

Cover Story – Decorio & Timberlook – Heritage At Its Best

Affordable Windows Group’s Amelia Gaughan discusses why the company’s successes over the past year with heritage range Timberlook is great news for installers looking for new opportunities – and why the launch of the Decorio steel-look heritage aluminium range is so exciting.

 

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Technical Article – A Short Fall To A Long Recovery

Technical Article – A Short Fall To A Long Recovery

Don Waterworth, The Installer’s technical and legal expert, encountered a dreadful accident near his home that gave him food for thought. A man and his ladder crashed to the ground; blood all over the place. Don sprang into action to help save the man’s life…but it could have been so different.

 

Staying Sane – Anxiety Is There For A Reason

Staying Sane – Anxiety Is There For A Reason

Toxic positivity is a thing. We all know someone with that ‘gotta look on the bright side, keep smiling’ outlook. You know, the person who makes you want to scratch your eyeballs out with rusty razors, writes Kate Ashley-Norman. She suggests not only steering clear of them but being in touch with reality so that anxiety focuses you on solutions not on masking the pain.

 

Video To Take Starring Role Promoting FENSA

Video To Take Starring Role Promoting FENSA

FENSA will be releasing the first in a series of educational and awareness videos aimed at answering questions installers and homeowners will have on how easy it is to join FENSA, our scope and what to expect at a FENSA inspection, writes Sam Davies, FENSA technical manager.

 

Editor's Comment

Editor's Comment

Editor Brian Shillibeer looks ahead with optimism to spring, summer and autumn and to this April’s FIT Show – which will feature over 220 companies and loads of products for you to see if you grab yourself a ticket. Shillibeer also reflects on what the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced – good news if you operate in the new build sector. He also review the News…good and bad…optimism on one hand, van and tool theft causing misery on the other.