There are two ways we can take this cold snowy weather we're having. One way, is to see it as cold, miserable, grey, dank and depressing. The sort of weather only penguins and polar bears should enjoy. The other way to see it, and of course from a fenestration point of view, is that this [...]
As many of you are probably now aware, there's a cold snap coming. It's going to get cold. Nothing new there. But it's the prospect of snow that has prompted a few nervous tweets in the twittersphere. The industry seems to have had a strong start to the year so far, with many reporting good [...]
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last 24 hours, you will now know the massive extent to which the US East Coast has been battered by 'frankenstorm' or 'Superstorm' Sandy. I was up late last night watching the pictures and video come in of the damage and the scale is just [...]
Those poor people across the country over the past few days. The worst September storm for 30 years has brought floods, devastation and misery to hundreds, if not thousands of homeowners, primarily in the North of the UK. York has just seen it's second highest flood, with the river Ouse topping out at 5.06m higher [...]
So 2012 is going to go down as yet another year where we have had NO SUMMER whatsoever! A couple of weeks in April and that was it, record rainfall and very little sunshine! Totally rubbish. But while all our Vitamin D levels suffer, is all this rain necessarily a bad thing when it comes [...]
Much of England and Wales has woken up to yet more heavy and torrential rain. Like we really needed more of the wet stuff! April was the wettest April on record, which began in 1910, after just weeks before a drought being declared and hosepipe bans in many areas. Then June just gone was also [...]
If you haven't noticed, it has been raining. A lot! Prior to April, we had one of the warmest and driest March's in history. But since then we have week after week of heavy and prolonged rain. Despite this, we are still in drought conditions apparently! This is the wettest drought I've ever seen! Rain [...]
It's that time of year. The sun has made it's return and the heat is rising. And to all those that fit wood grain doors, this is also the time where many south facing homeowners ring up asking for someone to look at their door! It's door expansion season! We started to receive calls from [...]
I think we all thought we would escape this Winter without any harsh or extreme weather unlike the last 3 winters the UK had. But at the back end of Winter, this week, temperatures are set to plummet to a very chilly-11 degrees Celsius! So far there hasn't been much snow in the forecast, but [...]
>The Met Office announced today that this April was the hottest, and driest on record. Which is quite impressive if you consider the records go back 101 years.These dry conditions have two impacts. One, reservoir, river and canal levels have fallen dramatically. And you just know that the jumpy British Government are going to start [...]
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