Restructure
Radically restructured in 2017 to give our management team more flexibility to develop our product offer, Sliders UK is making specialism count Commenting on its Management Buy Out in April 2017, Sliders UK Chairman, Ian Longbottom, said that the door specialist had to be ‘confident’about its future, citing the continuing development of its product […]
Are you losing margin in bi-fold door installation?
Sliders UK’s Steve Mines reviews the cost of bi-fold door installation and finds out that it’s not always the money maker it may first appear. Annual sales of aluminium bi-fold doors are forecast to top 35,000 by 2020. Growth of around 50 per cent on the market in 2016 in only four years, illustrating the […]
Are composite door tolerances costing your business?
Composite door tolerances remain subject of heated industry debate with call backs because of bowed slabs according to commentators, costing installers thousands each year. “Building products have tolerances. That’s accepted”, says Steve Mines, Sales Director, Sliders UK. “In composite door manufacture, however, slab bowing tolerances seem to be being set completely arbitrarily. We’re being told […]
Aluminium window growth in home improvement
Aluminium windows are seeing significant commercial growth but are also making inroads into the home improvement sector. Higher priced – and ultimately better products – are setting the defining trends within the UK window and door industry. This has included the reinvention of PVC-U. Foils, flush casements, mechanical jointing and timber-type welds, providing the foundation […]
Forecasts for aluminium windows and doors in the UK 2018
Its reference in the Periodic Table is AL, its atomic number is 13 and it’s the third most abundant element after Oxygen and Silicon. And it’s also the third most ‘abundant’ material in the UK window and door industry – and forecast to become more so across retail, new build and commercial markets. According to […]
Engineering-in value
The bi-fold door sector is going through a period of significant change with the launch of a series of new generation PVC-U systems. “There’s an affordability gap” says Steve Mines, Sliders UK, “The end user demand is there but not everyone can afford an aluminium door. New generation PVC-U systems close that gap, delivering a […]
Grounded growth
Sliders UK added Duraflex’s new bi-folding door to its rapidly expanding range last month. Sliders UK’s exponential expansion of its product offering has continued at pace. With three new product launches already under its belt this year alone, the door specialist added a fourth – Duraflex’s new bi-fold door to its offer this autumn. “If […]
Analysis: aluminium bi-fold doors
Aluminium has enjoyed what appears an unrivalled ascendency in the bi-folding door market but can it be sustained? It’s been called the ‘Grand Designs factor’: Kevin McCloud (other home improvement shows are also available!) has transmitted the virtue of slim sightlines alongside the aspirational appeal of products that connect indoor and outdoor ‘spaces’, into our […]
The importance of ‘Q’
A little over a year on, we find out how Part Q has heralded not only a step change in Government policy but is also reshaping the how the industry sells to homeowners. The introduction of Part Q in October 2015, was a watershed moment in that for the first time, it introduced a security requirement […]
Analysis – UK market prospects
Consumer spending held-up throughout the summer and with forecasts for renewed growth in the housing market within a year, could the ‘post-Brexit stars just be aligning’? Being definitive about Brexit is just about impossible. Predicting its long-term impact on the UK economy and consumer confidence is even more so. But while Brexit has been sobering for […]
