Clearview National August 2016 - Issue 177 | Page 43

DOORS&WINDOWS

New PVCu Flush Tilt
& Turn Challenges
Aluminium

SUPPLYING NORTHERN
IRELAND’S SOCIAL
HOUSING MARKET

»»SPECTUS HAS ISSUED A
direct challenge to aluminium
windows in high-rise with
the launch of its Flush Tilt
& Turn PVC-U system, that
has a similar look to the metal
but with significant benefits
including thermal performance
and cost.
With U-Values as low as
0.8 W/m2K (WER A++)
achievable, window openings up
to 1,450mm wide X 2,300mm

»»IT CREATED THE AWARDwinning range of Lumi frameless
windows and residential doors,
but did you know Northern
Ireland based Apeer is also one of
the leading suppliers of composite
and fire doors into the social
housing market.
With contracts in planning for
the next five years, the Apeer door
range meets the requirements
for the NIHE specification for
entrance doors and fire doors,
and Apeer supplies a number of
contractors with doors for NIHE
social housing projects. Managing
Director, Asa McGillian, explains:
“Social housing is an integral part
of our overall door business and
we get a lot of repeat orders for
onsite maintenance door slabs
due to occupier damage.
“Our composite and fire doors
have been fitted into high-rise
flats and housing developments
for contracts throughout
Northern Ireland, the Republic of
Ireland and the rest of the UK.
“Our new and improved
30-minute fire door, Isolate2,
keeps us at the forefront of the

high, and many other unique
features, the Spectus Flush Tilt
& Turn is ideal for new-build
apartments, housing, hotels,
health education and public
buildings, where aluminium
or composites might otherwise
have been first choice.
Its sleek external flush styling
and square edge appearance
gives it a close visual match to
aluminium, especially with the
smooth grey foiled finish on
grey base as a stock option, but
the profile also benefits from
Spectus’s extensive range of 28
other foils – one of the widest
ranges of any PVCu system.
As well as the obvious
cost saving of PVCu over
aluminium, the Spectus Flush
Tilt & Turn’s exceptional
thermal performance can be
achieved with Argon-filled
triple glazed units, rather than
expensive Krypton-filled units,
and without insulation in the
profile or expensive special
reinforcements.
www.spectus.co.uk

market and offers improved
thermal efficiency, multi-point
locking systems, double glazed
units, low maintenance and
is available in five styles, five
colours, all with side and top
lights available. The new version
replaced our original Isolate fire
door in April 2015.”
www.apeer.co.uk

A CONTEMPORARY TWIST
»»TRUFRAME’S REFINE™ WINDOW
and door range boasts full mechanical joints
in the frame, sash and mullion, plus has
now received a contemporary twist with the
introduction of new hardware, helping to
compliment the more modern foiled finishes
of anthracite grey for example.
The flush sash window is very much the
‘in vogue’ product at present, with TruFrame
quick to point out that Refine™ is not just a
product destined for more period inspired
properties, but also more modern properties
and apartments, along with everything else in
between. To the outside, the flush appearance
and symmetrical lines, offered with dummy

sashes, makes for a cleaner and more uniform
appearance, offering tangible visual differentials
in comparison to a typical rebated sash.
Refine™ also carries Secured by Design,
the first window of its kind to achieve this
important accreditation. Security is further
enhanced with Yale friction stays and
shootbolt locking system as standard.
David Firmager, Managing Director of
TruFrame, commented: “With careful choice
of finish and handle type, consumers can
benefit from a window that’s as individual as
their property type, while installers benefit
from a 70mm frame and our renowned
product quality.”

See the ‘Complete Package’ video on
TruFrame’s YouTube channel.

C L E A RV I E W-U K . C O M » AU G 2016 » 43