DUNGANNON WINDOWS USES SPECTUS PROFILE TO MAKE FIRST B-RATED SASH WINDOW

Spectus Windows customer, the Dungannon Window Company, is the first ever Spectus fabricator to receive a B-rating from the BFRC for its range of sash windows. The rating was achieved after the Northern Ireland-based company developed a series of cutting-edge seals for its Eurosash windows, its trade name for the Spectus vertical slider profile.

Spectus has been providing Dungannon Window Company with its PVC-u vertical slider profile for decades. The vertical slider is a sash window profile with Ovolo finishing, offering all the performance benefits of advanced technology in a system complimentary to period properties across the domestic and commercial markets.

Spectus vertical sliders enable the company's customers to fabricate authentic-looking sash windows with optimum strength and superior thermal performance. As Spectus offers a vast array of foiling options, Dungannon Windows is able to offer its customers natural woodgrain effects too. The profiles are made using UV-light resistant pigment which ensures their original colour is maintained, and with a high-impact modifier for added strength in adverse weather conditions. Dungannon Windows reinforces the chambers of its Eurosash windows with steel to further enhance their stability, offering a ten year guarantee on its frames for added peace of mind. Eurosash's thermal properties are further improved with the use of 24mm, low-energy, argon gas-filled double glazed units with warm edge spacer bars to achieve a centre pane U-value of 1.1 W/mK. The combination of all this with Dungannon Windows' development of unique seals for its Eurosash windows to guarantee their air-tightness led to the BFRC awarding the range a B-rating upon their submission for energy efficiency testing this year. All Eurosash windows are fitted with the exclusive seals and have a minimum class 'C' window energy rating.

The Dungannon Window Company?s managing director, Tom Givans, concludes: ?We have always held energy performance as fundamental to our operations, which is why we cultivated a relationship with Spectus ? its profiles deliver on every level, including strength, aesthetics and, most crucially, sustainability. It?s fantastic to have received formal recognition of our continued investment and new product development in this area by being the first Spectus fabricator to achieve a B-rating for its vertical slider. Having concrete proof of our Eurosash windows? superior energy performance is certainly good for business; just last week we received an order from a housebuilder for over 300 B-rated Eurosash windows, which in today?s market is pretty impressive!? To find out more about Spectus Window Systems, visit www.spectus.co.uk or call 01625 420400. For more information on the Eurosash windows from the Dungannon Window Company, visit www.dungannonwindows.co.uk