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News Release from: Profine | Subject: Kommerling Connoisseur.
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 September 2004
Taking Care With The Windows
Conroy Brook's latest £500,000 homes in Halifax have all been fitted with the classically-curved Kommerling Connoisseur.
Windows combining traditional styling with severe weather resistance were required to meet stringent planning conditions, while ensuring the comfort of residents at a new care and nursing home overlooking the windswept Holme Valley at Holmfirth, near Huddersfield White Rose House Care Centre - run by Meridian Healthcare Ltd
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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- is a 60-bed care home, comprising 40 long-term residential beds and 20 short-term nursing beds, in the grounds of the Holme Valley Memorial Hospital.
The fenestration contract was the result of an on-going partnership between a local window fabricator and one of the area's most prestigious builders.
"The local authority wanted windows to complement the natural stone, from which the care home itself is built, and other buildings in the area," says Richard Pogson, Managing Director of the Lockwood Window Company, which manufactured and fitted them.
The windows chosen by the building contractors, Conroy Brook Developments Ltd., were the 58mm Kommerling Gold, finished in light oak.
In total, around 140 windows were installed, including top-hung and side-hung casements, along with entrance doors, and floor-to-ceiling corner screens made of toughened fixed panes sprayed with a coloured film to mask the staircases.
Says Conroy Brook site manager Graham Barber: "Because of the high winds around here we needed weather-resistant PVC-U.
And the light oak finish means they go very well with the stone building." Work is due to start in the new year on White Rose House's nursing accommodation.
Lockwood, which has been manufacturing Kommerling systems since 1997, also supplies windows for the 25 high quality homes - each valued between £500,000 and £1m - that Conroy Brook builds in a year.
Conroy Brook's latest £500,000 homes in Halifax have all been fitted with the classically-curved Kommerling Connoisseur.
"Its rounded, sculptured appearance is becoming increasingly popular, especially with the light oak and rosewood finishes," says Richard Pogson, who currently has 18 employees, manufacturing around 100 windows a week from a 5,000 square foot factory, in Lockwood, Huddersfield.
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