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Social housing flats transformed
28th July 2015

Casement windows from PROFILE 22 approved commercial manufacturer Polar Windows played their part in the £4.5million regeneration of 70 flats in five blocks at Stonelow Green in Dronfield for North East Derbyshire District Council.

Hasland-based fabricator Polar Windows was appointed preferred window sub-contractor due to locality and the company’s proven experience in the commercial sector.
“We wanted to secure the future of the blocks through a long-term solution not a rebuild,” said James Lindsay, assistant contracts manager for housing management company Rykneld Homes.

“Energy costs were an issue for many of our tenants. Reducing fuel poverty is part of our Business Plan 2014-17; the improvements at Stonelow Green go a long way in achieving this.

“We were also having to carry out frequent repairs so low-maintenance, future-proof products formed an important part of the specification. The windows are a good example of this. The original windows were early 1990s PVC-U. They were side-hung and very large which meant that the hinges failed. There were no trickle vents either so that contributed to some damp issues within the flats.”

Polar Windows’ business development manager, Rob Hawkins explained how the window solution helped eradicate cold spots within the building, and worked with the external wall insulation (EWI) to improve the thermal performance of the blocks: “Our biggest challenge on this project was the large lounge windows. A vast PVC-U tilt and turn window had originally been combined with a timber panel to create a long feature window. While Rykneld wanted to retain this aesthetic, for uniformity across the blocks, like-for-like replacement would have meant unnecessary cold spots.  We had to design a window solution which would allow as much of the building to be wrapped in EWI as possible.”

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