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News Release from: Steel Window Association | Subject: W40 windows and doorsets
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 October 2005
Dame Gracie villa stylish steel windows
Villa in north London, originally built for Gracie Fields has been sympathetically renovated with a member of the Steel Window Association supplying W40 windows and doorsets.
A large residence in a fashionable area of north London - originally built for one of Britain's best loved singers - has been sympathetically renovated with a member of the Steel Window Association supplying W40 windows and doorsets, which keep faith with the property's original styling Dame Gracie Field's distinctive home in the Frognal area of Hampstead was completed in 1935 with Universal Suite windows being chosen as the original fenestration
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 16 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Seventy years on and SWA member, NSB Casements was called upon to manufacture new W40 system windows to match the rusting old frames.
The painstaking refurbishment work has been carried out for the new owners under the guidance of Hatton Garden-based architects, Springett Mackay Architecture.
The main contractor to whom NSB Casements supplied some 25 steel windows and doors was J and Z Construction from The Vale in North West London.
The partner in charge of the work for Springett Mackay, Matthew Springett, comments: "Although this building isn't listed it is in a conservation area and is quite unique, having been designed and built for Gracie Fields during the 1930's in what could be described as 'French Mediterranean villa style'.
"The planners were looking for the replacement windows to be in steel which wasn't a problem as the client was seeking to renovate the place like-for-like.
The house had the original steel windows still remaining, but they all needed replacing, mainly using the W40 system but switching to W20 where the turning radius for the curved heads was particularly tight.
The place looks very good now".
The W40 windows and doorsets produced by NSB were all glazed with 26 mm thick IG units featuring the use of low-E glass and argon gas filling, producing a U-value of 2.1 W/m2K.
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