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News Release from: H+H Celcon | Subject: Ra House network
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 December 2007
Growing Ra House network
Ra House is a combined product and labour package which produces a robust aircrete masonry envelope in a build time comparable to frame systems.
The number of approved contractors for H+H UK's Ra House system has now passed the 20 mark with the appointment of ND Building Services of Gloucester Ra House uses H+H Celcon Plus blocks with the Thin-Joint system for the external and internal walls, with proprietary intermediate floors and a weather-tight roof ready for tiling
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 7 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Founded nearly seven years ago by Nick Darch, ND Building Services has graduated from extension work and earlier this year achieved NHBC status.
He now both builds houses for others and develops and builds on his own account.
Nick first came across H+H UK's Thin-Joint system in March this year.
He was proposing to build a house using timber frame, but the eight week lead time was too long, so the architect suggested using Thin-Joint.
Nick was impressed with the system but was initially concerned how his bricklayers would adapt to the new system, which involves special tools and quick-setting Celfix mortar.
He need not have worried.
In his own words "They took to it like ducks to water".
Now he uses the system for all his new homes and for extension work as well: "The Celcon Thin-Joint system gives you the solidity of masonry construction which homebuyers prefer, with the speed of build of timber frame - and there is no lead time".
"It is altogether an excellent system".
Other recently appointed Ra House contractors have been equally impressed.
"The Ra House system has been a great success for us," says Mark Wilson of WHS Brickwork, in Sudbury, "the speed with which we can build the weathertight shell of a house is phenomenal".
Anthony Jones of Opal Homes in Dalkeith agrees, "The Celcon Thin-Joint system is 35-40% faster than laying dense aggregate blocks with conventional mortar." Matthew Haynes of DandM Haynes Building Partnership in Enderby Leicestershire sums up, "The Thin-Joint system is the only way to do blockwork now".
The network of approved contractors for the H+H UK Ra House system now spans the length and breadth of the country, from Greenock in Scotland through Bradford, West Yorkshire to South Wales, Devon and Kent.
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