Transform Your Home | Style Meets Comfort
Create an attractive, aesthetically pleasing home whilst enhancing comfort and thermal efficiency. Explore how new windows, doors, conservatories, cladding, fascia and soffit can transform your home. A simple way to improve comfort through enhanced heat retention, sufficient air circulation, additional space and enhanced security. Gain protection from water damage and dampness. At the same time you’ll be increasing the kerb appeal of your home, enticing visitors and catching the attention of potential buyers.
With ever increasing technology available, manufacturing of windows and doors has improved significantly. Homes are able to be much more energy efficient, retaining as much warmth as possible and helping to reduce your heating bills! Through the use of double and triple glazed sealed units, heat transfer from both inside and outside of your home is slowed down, helping to keep heat inside your home. Double and triple glazing is also useful to reduce condensation on your windows. Although it may not seem a huge issue, condensation can lead to mould, damage to walls, curtains and other parts of your home. Another feature of windows and doors that has been introduced is the use of trickle vents, now compulsory on new builds.Trickle vents sit in the frame of the door/window and allow constant ventilation into and out of the room, reducing the build up of moisture and removing ‘stale air’ from inside. Further to this, security features of both windows and doors have been improved, through enhanced locking systems and the use of stronger materials, to provide maximum protection for your family and belongings. Windows and doors are available in a wider range of materials, including pvc-u, aluminium, composite and hardwood, creating a more robust frame whilst giving you a huge choice of styles and colours to suit you. Create further kerb appeal and extra convenience on rainy days with a custom built porch entrance, a porch or pillar entrance gives your home a bespoke style and may help catch the interest of potential buyers.
Add comfort to your home and create a new space to enjoy with a conservatory, orangery or all weather room! Enjoy better views of your garden from the comfort and warmth of being inside especially in winter, and bring more light into your home with larger window spaces. Worried about losing warmth during winter? As with windows and doors, conservatory buildings are also advancing, with many people now choosing to have a warm roof with skylights or lantern roof windows. This still allows light to flood the room, giving you an open, airy feel whilst also retaining more heat than a glass roof conservatory. With the wide range of materials available, you can create your very own, bespoke room in a style that suits you and your home, maintaining maximum comfort and creating aesthetic appeal.
Add cladding and replace old fascia and soffits to further improve appearance, insulation and weather resistance. Protect the longevity of the foundations of your home by preventing water damage and protecting from wear and tear. You may choose to add cladding to bring a modernised appearance and increasing kerb appeal. Fascia and soffit boards should be replaced when old and worn to ensure protection to the walls and roof whilst providing support for guttering. Functioning guttering is vital to protect your home from water damage, damp and mould which could have a detrimental effect to fascia, soffits, walls, ceilings, window frames and paint.
Give your home a new life, add protection and increase energy efficiency with these home improvements. Enjoy exploring the range of styles, materials and colours now available to create bespoke improvements to your home. It’s important to use a company you can trust to take care of you and your home, Insulation Services is a family run business, serving customers across Sussex since 1977, visit our showroom to see what there is to offer or give us a call today.
25 Years Certificate of Excellence | Plastic Windows Federation 2019
Established in 1977, Insulation Services is a family-run firm based in Crowborough, East Sussex that specialises in windows, doors and conservatories.
This month (December 2018) saw Insulation Services being awarded a ‘Certificate of Excellence’ and being presented with a trophy marking over 25 years membership to the Plastics Window Federation (PWF).
The 2019 Platinum ‘Certificate of Excellence’ awarded to Insulation Services is for achieving and maintaining an impeccable trading record with the Federation and demonstrating the highest standards in both installation and customer service.
Stephen Cottingham, Director said: ‘We are very pleased! We take great pride in our work and the customer service we offer, and we make sure that our customers receive the best quality service every time they use us’.
Over 90% of business originates from recommendations and repeat customers – carrying out a range of home improvements from small scale repairs (e.g. locks and hinges) through replacement windows and doors, up to new build conservatories and orangeries (including all building works).
Insulation Services works with customers in and around Crowborough and across East and West Sussex, Kent & Surrey. They are fully accredited FENSA registered installers and provide full guarantees on all installation works. As well as being members of the Federation of Small Businesses, they have been vetted and monitored by ‘Checkatrade’ since 2012 with over 630 customer reviews posted scoring impressively on reliability, workmanship and courtesy. In association with ‘Checkatrade’, they are also approved by East Sussex Trading Standards.
All this makes for a local reputable business being recognised for long standing service to the residents and business community in and around Crowborough.
Case Study - New Windows & Doors for a Detached House
Project Summary: Replacement of all old windows and doors for whole residential property.
Key features of this project were:
- New replacement 9 x PVCu windows to whole property
- New replacement Front Door with single glazed panel
- New replacement Back Door with double glazed panels
Project Details:
Insulation Services were appointed by clients after checking our reviews on Checkatrade and visiting our showrooms.
Insulation Services visited the home to discuss options and designs for all windows and doors; timescales and budgets were also discussed. The bespoke quotation was prepared which included full details of the proposed products, the price, together with terms and conditions – all set out to fully inform the customer of everything involved. A set of pictures accompanied the quotation to illustrate each design style, layout and relative sizes.
The work involved a series of 4 key stages:
1. Measuring and Pricing
2. Procurement and Planning
3. Risk Assessment and Method Statement
4. Installation
The windows and doors products are all PVCu – selected for their style, performance and value for money. The front door is an ‘Assington’ style door featuring a high security locking system and an Irish Oak exterior and white interior, an obscure toughened glass sealed unit (to allow light into the hallway) and antique black door furniture. The windows are ‘A’ rated with 6 chambers for improved energy efficiency; they are internally glazed with argon filled 28 mm double glazed sealed units.
We deployed a 2-man team to carry out the removal and installation work, liaising closely with the customer for the sequence of working (to cause least disruption and disturbance). All windows and doors were carefully and safely installed within one week on site.
All waste materials were removed from site daily and the outside of the house was tidied up on completion. A follow up visit was arranged to address the last minor adjustments and to demonstrate how the windows opened for cleaning.
Testimonial:
“I am very happy with the new windows and doors; they make such a difference. The old windows had leaks and gaps and were very draughty! Now the newly installed windows are warmer and quieter – as well as looking good.
I am happy to recommend Insulation Services.”
The images below show before (left 2 photos) and after (right 2 photos)
Conservatories? Not anymore.
The trend for building traditional conservatories is fading; instead, new exciting and innovative ideas are being developed and realised as more people want a better year-round useable extension to their homes (rather than a glass box that can often only be used for a few months of the year when it’s not too hot and not too cold!).
Insulation Services has recognised and met this trend by supplying and installing new ‘Warm Roof’ products and ‘Orangeries’ in modern styles that offer year-round comfort and useability – a real purposeful solution to what is sometimes no more than a greenhouse!
So, what is a Warm Roof?
It is a solid roof system designed for all year-round comfort. Insulation Services uses an award-winning solid roof system which is the most configurable and structurally robust, insulated and tiled roof in the UK. Thanks to the advanced technology, the building control approved roof provides the highest levels of thermal efficiency.
The warm roof system is incredibly versatile to perfectly fit any home. No matter what shape or size, the design can be configured to suit layout and space requirements.
- Award-winning solid roof
- First class thermal efficiency
- Hybrid glass panel upgrades
- Customisable design
The roof covering uses ’Tapcoslate’ tiles – these are a mixture of limestone and PVC and provide a lightweight alternative to traditional slate tiles; Tapcoslate tiles are easy to cut and work with on site without compromising performance. They are identical to natural slate in their appearance so are the perfect choice for an authentic, detailed roof design. Tapcoslate tiles are moulded from real slate tiles but unlike natural slate, they will not break or delaminate and are available in a range of authentic colours.
