For Professional Installers of Commercial Façades and Windows, Doors, Extensions & Other Home Improvements
Editor Brian Shillibeer says he and many other commentators on the window installation business think it is time to diversify – using the skills or enhancing the skills of your teams or even employing mentors so that you can snap up business that you might once of ignored. Shillibeer says there is good money to be made in loft conversions and extensions utilising windows and garden doors – but why not do the whole job rather than just part of it…and why not take a look at solar or kitchens or even a bit of decorating when you install a new front door?
Investing in meeting your potential customers in person…doing the driving to make sure you shake a hand and engender trust, is still incredibly important. Possibly the most important marketing strategy you can have, writes the Andrew Scott, the CEO at Purplex, the industry’s favourite marketing’ company.
Old windows and glass have a value. They can generate an income. They can cut production costs. And they can build you reputation when it comes to presenting your own environmental credentials to your customers, writes Lee Glover, the sustainability & net-zero delivery manager at Saint-Gobain Glass.
Following the European Environment Agency’s latest noise pollution report, REHAU has called attention to the importance of windows that offer strong acoustic performance when specifying for retrofit and new-build residential projects.
Do not fit or allow your builder to fit, an angle iron lintel. Why? Because this type of lintel does not work. It has no cavity tray and no insulation – and is likely to rust and expand to ‘jack up’ mortar which will fall out…and you’ll fall out with your customers, writes Don Waterworth, The Installer’s Technical & Legal Expert.