PVC-U wins again at Cherry Tree Mews
31st July 2018

A former Victorian asylum, a church and other buildings have been transformed into Cherry Tree Mews, a development in Somerset by the Jones Building Group using ALUPLAST Ideal 70 anthracite on white windows installed by DGlass.

The development includes a gate house, six town houses and a lodge house, split into two separate properties but designed to appear as if a single building, and a number of luxury apartments, converted from within the main building.

James Clayson, General Manager DGlass, explained: “The windows and doors were originally specified in aluminium but redesigned in PVC-U by DGlass. The windows had really large openers, with full height push-out the windows. That’s something that you can’t achieve with PVC.

“At the same time you have to ask ‘does that give the property any character?’ and the answer was ‘no’. All it gave you was a single run of glass.

“We have redesigned it in aluplast’s Ideal 70PVC-U suite to break up that run.

With a choice of 24mm to optimum 40mm triple glazed options, the slim line system achieves a WER A+ rating with standard components and A++ with specific profiles and IGUs.

Including 120 casement windows, French doors, Juliet balconies and side-lights, windows were designed to complement the red/brown of the stone used in original buildings. At the same time they were also chosen to contrast with the contemporary white render used at the front and rear of the buildings, the anthracite grey exterior of the windows transcending the old and the new.

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