YORKSHIRE HOUSEBUILDER SPECIFIES STELRAD RADIATORS FOR ALL ITS DEVELOPMENTS

Radiators are the key sharer of heat around homes in the UK and many housebuilders are specifying designer radiators because they want their customers to benefit from a premium product as part of the new home’s specification. One of these is Erris Homes, based in Leeds. Erris Homes is a provider of modern and luxurious new family homes across Yorkshire.

The company has chosen the Compact with Style design radiators from Stelrad – another Yorkshire-based company – with more than two and a half million radiators a year manufactured at its manufacturing plant in Mexborough, near Rotherham in South Yorkshire.

Purchasing radiators from a locally based manufacturer is definitely a plus for Erris Homes as it means it is not only supporting its local supply chain but also minimising its environmental impact due to the reduced distance of transport for the radiators from the National Distribution Centre alongside the Stelrad factory to the sites around Yorkshire.

Chris Harvey is Head of Marketing at Stelrad: “It means a lot to us to see housebuilders making a positive decision to select premium panel designer radiators for their homes and Erris Homes is one of the housebuilders in the UK that has decided to select a model from our Stelrad range.”

The Compact with Style offers a clean, crisp, flat fronted radiator with a horizontal lined fascia. The subtle architectural look and feel of the Compact with Style is combined with value, range and availability to provide a sophisticated, designer styling for any room, commercial or domestic, at affordable prices. It’s available in 126 different models – horizontal, vertical, loline and coloured versions. www.stelrad.com

SURESET ON A MISSION!

Founded in 1987 with what was originally a reasonably sized house with over 14 acres of land, The Anoopam Mission soon became a beautiful Swaminarayan Temple located in a quiet and secluded part of Uxbridge in South Buckinghamshire. It opens its doors to help those who need it the most, without any discrimination of other faiths and the non-religious, of their class, creed, colour or gender.

Since 2016 SureSet have been working with the Anoopam Mission alongside MEB Design and Beard Construction to complete their project vision of creating the biggest multicultural campus in the United Kingdom. It would have been easy to implement a traditional paving surface but it was decided to use SureSet for all of the pedestrian surfaces.

Using SureSet guarantees no loose stones, because its resin bound system completely infuses the raw material whilst leaving voids for permeability, which also influenced its specification. The project included a total area of 1180m using SureSet resin bound paving materials on the steps and pedestrian entrance to the tranquil Temple.

The colours chosen were from a natural earthy terracotta and uplifting light sandy marble palette. The areas were prepared using permeable open graded asphalt as the base, ideal for SuDS (Sustainable urban Drainage Systems). SureSet's most recent visit back to the premises of the Swaminarayan Campus, just off the A40, was for another approved building phase at Anoopam Mission. It was originally applied for in 2019 to build a Hindu Crematorium.

Anoopam Mission continued to use SureSet for this phase for it was an easy to maintain surface that was accessible. The aggregate colours were kept the same for consistency, creating a continuous flow around the new crematorium building, it was important to continue the same colours used in the first phase of installation as it gives a sense of connection. A fully permeable 14mm open-graded asphalt base was prepared prior to SureSet's arrival. The SureSet paving team completed a full installation of 717m with BBA Approved resin bound materials at a 16mm depth.

The main resin bound colour used was a natural warm red 3mm aggregate known as Tuscan Barley Butter. The chosen warm terracotta colour was perfect to feature around the grounds as it matched the redwood window frames and exterior building features beautifully. The second area of materials SureSet installed was 105m of 3mm luxury resin bound marble, named Buttermilk, a light white sand colour. It was used in the design as a striking decorative border around the crematorium outlining the shape of the building, blending in well with the surrounding colours.

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Sto Insulation And Render System Makes Its Mark On The Bournemouth Skyline

One of the tallest new buildings recently added to the Bournemouth skyline has been completed with a combination of external wall insulation and render products supplied by Sto. The company’s StoTherm Mineral M system, with Sto-Rotofix Plus mechanical fixings and StoSilco exterior render were all used on the new Skyline student accommodation building, which achieved a BREEAM ’Very Good’ rating.

StoTherm Mineral is a highly durable external wall insulation system which uses mineralfibre boards that provide outstanding thermal performance and unrivalled fire protection. The dense nature of the materials involved also provided a considerable degree of sound insulation for this student accommodation building, while the efficient single-leaf construction and external location of the system allowed internal space to be maximized.

After a Sto cement-free reinforcement layer had been applied, the insulation system was completed with the application of the company’s StoSilco silicone resin render. This provides the finished surfaces with a highly water-repellent surface that is ideal for buildings such as this where a coastal location may subject them to unusually harsh weather conditions. With excellent CO2 and water-vapour permeability this render allows moisture transfer to occur at a high rate, enabling the wall to breathe and encouraging the evaporation process.

The StoSilco render is available in an extended range of 764 colours from the StoColor System, and this provided extra benefits for this particular project. A dark grey RAL 7016 colour was used for the render between the windows and across the top two floors, and this was then overcoated with StoColor X-Black façade paint. A contrasting RAL 31437 cream colour was used in other areas. www.sto.co.uk