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Grant Uk Find An Installer Online Search

The ‘Find an Installer’ search facility on Grant UK’s website has been updated. Designed as a user-friendly feature for householders, the resource will also visibly generate enquiries for the G1 Installers listed on the manufacturer’s website. It provides a selection of local heating companies who install, service and repair

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Proptech Searchland

PropTech innovators SearchLand have found insightful new planning and price data for prospective new homes builders. As part of its latest market report, the team behind the data driven site sourcing platform has established in which LPA house builders are most likely to have an application for planning approved.

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Trustmark Home Improvement App

New content on TrustMark’s home improvement App includes information on four new subjects – Loft

Conversions, Garden Buildings, Living Spaces and Garages. The platform already focuses on energy efficiency measures, such as insulation, solar panels, heat pumps, double glazing, and much more. The App can be downloaded on Apple and Android devices by

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KNOW-IT CREDIT MANAGEMENT

A new cloud-based platform streamlines the credit control process, helping construction firms mitigate credit risk, reduce debtor days and boost cashflow. Know-it allows businesses to credit check and monitor, chase for payment, collect unpaid invoices, applications for payment, retentions, certificates and VOC’s all from one place.

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Well, having just got my DNA test results back from the lab, and updated my family tree, I can answer that building certainly seems to have featured in my family history. I have great-uncles and greatgreat-uncles on the English side who were recorded as carpenters. Although nobody ever told me that – I only found out when I unearthed the census records and marriage certificates.

Mind you, carpentry was a common enough trade in the 18th and 19th centuries, so by the law of averages it is only to be expected that many of us will have ancestors who have sawn, planed and chiselled for a living.

What really impressed me about the DNA test was how accurately it located where some of my ancestors came from – a precise bull’s-eye on the town in Ireland where my grandfather was born. Oh yes, I have Irish DNA in me too –and a lot more than I was expecting. So maybe building really is in my blood!

The other interesting thing about DNA testing is that when you post your results on the genealogy websites, you can get contacted by other people who share your DNA. (Just make sure you un-tick the box that allows the FBI to put you on their crime database!)

So it was that I was messaged by several distant cousins, who I had no idea existed, and two of whom have sent me old photographs of our common ancestors. Quite remarkable.

The best picture is of a large family gathering on the occasion of my great-greatgrandmother’s 80th birthday in 1899, which most probably includes my grandmother and great-grandmother as well, although I have no way of identifying which ones they are.

But the clothing is fascinating. The picture is in front of a Victorian house – the kind that most of us are used to working on. The house looks much the same as it will do today. But the clothes of its early inhabitants couldn’t be more different. The women are in long dresses and bonnets. The men are wearing flat caps or straw boaters. On a warm summer’s day, every single man and boy is wearing a necktie.

Were there any carpenters in this picture? Quite likely. Everyone would have dressed up for the birthday bash, for sure. But there are plenty of old photos of building workers wearing jackets and ties, too. The “Gentleman Bricklayer” might have taken off his jacket to work, but never his tie!

Fashions change, but the houses remain the same. And construction and building is definitely in my DNA.

Jeff Howell

Here is a useful summary of all the adverts that appear in this issue of Professional Builder . Each is listed with its page number and a direct URL that will get you straight to the relevant online information

Actis Insulation Ltd............................................................(page 54) www.rdr.link/BAQ120

Alufold Direct Ltd................................................................(page 41) www.rdr.link/BAQ121

Barrettine Group................................................................(page 16) www.rdr.link/BAQ122

Bond-it................................................................................(page 63) www.rdr.link/BAQ123

Buckler Boots Ltd..............................................................(page 52) www.rdr.link/BAQ124

Build Aviator......................................................................(page 26) www.rdr.link/BAQ125

Dakea..................................................................................(page 33) www.rdr.link/BAQ126

Eclisse UK Ltd......................................................................(page 11) www.rdr.link/BAQ127 estimators.com..................................................(inside front cover) www.rdr.link/BAQ128

Faithfull Tools....................................................................(page 32) www.rdr.link/BAQ129

Federation Of Master Builders Ltd....................................(page 52 www.rdr.link/BAQ130

Fischer Fixings UK Ltd......................................................(page 47) www.rdr.link/BAQ131

Garador................................................................................(page 55) www.rdr.link/BAQ132

Glazing Vision Ltd..............................................................(page 38) www.rdr.link/BAQ133

House Builder XL Ltd..........................................................(page 51) www.rdr.link/BAQ134

Knauf Insulation....................................................................(page 4) www.rdr.link/BAQ135

Made for Trade....................................................................(page 13) www.rdr.link/BAQ136

Made for Trade............................................................(pages 14, 15) www.rdr.link/BAQ137

Marley Ltd............................................................................(page 36) www.rdr.link/BAQ138

Onduline Building Products Ltd......................................(page 39) www.rdr.link/BAQ139

Origin Doors Ltd................................................................(page 23) www.rdr.link/BAQ140

Origin Doors Ltd................................................................(page 25) www.rdr.link/BAQ141

Origin Doors Ltd....................................................(bound in insert) www.rdr.link/BAQ142

Pnu-Point Ltd......................................................................(page 55) www.rdr.link/BAQ143

PB Online............................................................................(page 78) www.rdr.link/BAQ144

Quickslide..............................................................................(page 5) www.rdr.link/BAQ145

Rocket Door Frames..........................................................(page 74) www.rdr.link/BAQ146

Rocket Door Frames..........................................................(page 75) www.rdr.link/BAQ147

Rockwool UK Ltd..................................................................(page 6) www.rdr.link/BAQ148

SIXT................................................................................(back cover) www.rdr.link/BAQ149

Tarmac PLC/Blue circle........................................................(page 8) www.rdr.link/BAQ150

Toolfair................................................................................(page 56) www.rdr.link/BAQ151

Tuffx Processed Glass Ltd................................................(page 30) www.rdr.link/BAQ152

Vortex..................................................................................(page 44) www.rdr.link/BAQ153