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Christmas is just around the corner and it is time to start preparing for the festive season. Indoor decorations may be limited by your home’s Christmas decorating, but you can do something completely different on your terrace or decking. You need to think about how you will use your outdoor space to make this festive
Choosing your decking colour is always important to ensure your decking matches your home’s existing exterior palette and compliments your interior palette as well. Done well, house and decking colour combinations can help to enhance your outdoor space to complement your home and add visual interest. However choosing the wrong colour or material could turn
Composite building materials have been used from the earliest times, from wood which is a naturally occurring composite of lignin and cellulose, through straw reinforced clay bricks to reinforced concrete. In the 20th century, a new breed of composite materials was developed using polymer matrices with high performance reinforcement fibres. The effect and uncompromising properties
What is cladding? The definition of cladding indicates that it is a layer of material that is placed on a built structure or on any surface, we should think of cladding as being a building’s second skin. Fundamentally, it is a layer on top of exposed parts of a building (walls or roofs) that helps protect
Did you know that every three minutes in the UK a person is seriously injured due to slipping! How Safe Is Your Composite Decking? There is a lot to consider when you are looking to choose composite decking for your home. If you are considering using composite decking it may be because you realise the
What is an MgO board? Magnesium Oxide boards are a man made factory-produced non-insulating sheathing board products that are used for general construction applications. MgO board is similar to traditional drywall or cement board, but is much stronger, fireproof, and has a higher resistance to mould, mildew, moisture, and weather. It is made from magnesium
How long have we been using composite materials? The earliest composite materials known were made from straw and mud combined to form bricks for building construction. Ancient brick-making was documented by Egyptian tomb paintings. Wattle and daub is one of the oldest composite materials, at over 6000 years old. Wattle and daub is a composite
Traditional Wood v Composite Wood what season maintenance of your decking needs to be carried out? Hopefully the snow has now gone and those hardy spring perennials such as Daffodils are starting to poke their stems above ground hinting that spring is in the air. Your thoughts now turn to the garden and what needs
Asia to Europe ocean freight rates are continuing to climb spectacularly amid declines in available slot space and equipment, with the UK particularly hard hit by price rises and shortages of capacity. Freight forwarding sources are reporting rates of US$10,500 per container to secure capacity from China to European main ports, with China to UK
