Uncommon sense

Through all the recent political wrangling over shortages, be it PPE, test kits or whatever, the one commodity that has never been in short supply is advice. Whatever you need to know about carrying on working, or even just staying alive in these strange times, there have always been as many people telling you to do one thing as telling you to do the exact opposite, and in the middle of it all, we now have the PM telling us to use our common sense.

At the same time, this week we have two organisations setting out advice on the most puzzling of dilemmas – retrofit in occupied homes. But we also have an unstoppable tide of businesses at all levels applying their own common sense and doing their bit to get the industry moving again, hopefully with full recognition of all available safety advice.

Meanwhile, whether you are working or not, or wish you were or were not, we hope there is something in this week’s issue to help make the way forward a little clearer.

Chris Church Editor

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This Week's News

Customade Group
up for sale

Customade Group this week launched its post-Covid reopening plans with no further comment on the proposed sale of the group by accelerated process, as revealed by The Glazine last week.

The group, with nine manufacturing sites and brands all across the fenestration industry as well as 33 Stevenswood trade counters UK-wide, was offered for sale last week as a single unit under the codename Project Kirkwood by management consultancy Alvarez & Marsal.

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Trade bodies launch guides to working in homes

Any domestic installer trying to wade through the plethora of government advice on safe and legal working can now turn to two trade bodies which this week published their own guides to working in customer’s homes.

The guides, from Corgi Fenestration and the Certass Trade Association, come amid various government advice documents which left many still far from clear of working procedures, especially retrofitting in occupied private houses.

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Nolan UPVC bought by management team

A management team at G-Award winning fabricator Nolan UPVC have completed a multi-million management buyout from founder and MD Nolan Nicholas with a mix of loan and equity backed by the Development Bank of Wales.

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Colin Torley retires

Colin Torley has announced he is retiring after 35 years in the window industry – including nearly 28 years with Veka.

Colin. Now 60, joined the industry with Everest in 1988 before moving on to Solaglass CDW but is best remembered for his time with Veka where he says he was proud to be part of the team that turned it into ‘the No 1 systems company in the UK.

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Don’t let mixed messages put workers’ lives at risk – Safety Council

The British Safety Council has responded to the reopening of industry with a call for clearer guidance and a demand that no worker should be forced back to their workplace until it has been made safe.

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