Longborough in
Gloucestershire is located in one of the UK's most beautiful landscapes, with a
unique architectural style that uses mellow limestone walls containing metal
framed windows.
This heritage
continues with a member of the Steel Window Association having recently been
called upon to supply W20 screens and doors for the extension of a popular café
and food store.
Cotswold Casements is
based five miles away in Moreton-in-Marsh and has developed a good working
relationship with local builder, Nathan Clarke: carrying out the design,
manufacture and installation of three screens at the Cotswold Food Store in
Longborough, the largest measuring just over three metres wide by 2.2 metres
high.
With
the central screen including a double door and each side screen having top
opening casements to allow ventilation into the café, this contract
demonstrates the full potential of W20 profiles.
The
slim section size offers optimum glass area to maximise light entering any
building; while offering a distinctive appearance. Then, employing ‘parliament
hinges' enables the doors to fold fully back when the weather allows. Satin
chrome Frank Allart door handles and SWF satin chrome window furniture further
enhance the performance and appearance of the installation.
The builder, Nathan
Clarke, who commissioned the SWA member to supply and install the fenestration,
commented: "There was a planning requirement to keep the windows in a
similar style, and with the building being over a hundred years old, I feel the
W20 frames really fitted with the architecture. Overall, Cotswold Casements did
an amazing job and I have worked with the company on a number of jobs elsewhere
across the area."
The
screens, doors and windows are glazed with 4-8-4 sealed units featuring low-E,
low iron glass containing Krypton gas in the cavity to offer an overall U value
of 1.8 W/m2 K.
In addition to
renovation and replica refurbishment projects where architectural heritage
often influences the choice of fenestration, Steel Window Association members
are also involved in a lot of new build work.
Both the W20 and W40
steel sections provide the high security and durability regularly required for
school and hospital buildings as well as commercial developments, with the use
of high performance IG units enabling the different options to comply with Part
L of the Building Regulations.
