Adaptable Meeting Environment To Support Variety Of Daily Activities

DWF’s Liverpool office required a modern and adaptable meeting environment to support a variety of daily activities. Working with Overbury, Style Group was appointed to deliver a solution that combined visual appeal with practical flexibility.

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To meet the brief, Style Group installed Dorma Variflex semi-automatic glass moveable walls featuring white profiles and Crittall-style white banding to complement the contemporary interior. These intersect with a solid Dorma Variflex semi-automatic wall, finished on both sides with Autex Acoustics groove PET acoustic absorption panels to enhance sound control.

This configuration enables the area to function as a single large space or be divided into one or two separate rooms as required. Semi-automatic operation ensures smooth movement and consistent sealing pressure for improved acoustic performance.

The Autex PET panels further support noise reduction within the workspace, while the durable Variflex construction provides a long-lasting solution for busy commercial environments. Overall, the installation gives DWF a flexible, efficient, and stylish meeting area that can adapt seamlessly to different working needs. https://style-group.co.uk

Rossi Bathrooms And Schlüter Systems Deliver High‑Performance Residential Steam Room

In today’s fast-paced world, homeowners are increasingly looking to create at home wellness spaces. Ross Guerin of Rossi Bathrooms Ltd certainly provided a calm, relaxing residential steam room installation recently with products from Schlüter-Systems. As a Schlüter Registered Installer, Ross chose Schlüter-KERDI-DS and Schlüter-DITRA waterproofing and uncoupling solutions to prepare for the intense moisture and heat a steam room would generate.

Designed for areas exposed to high humidity levels – such as swimming pools, steam rooms, and spa environments – Schlüter-KERDI-DS is a waterproofing membrane with additional vapour barrier properties. It provides reliable protection even on moisture-sensitive substrates like wood, helping to preserve the entire structure beneath the surface.

In addition to its enhanced vapour resistance, KERDI-DS offers all the trusted benefits of the original KERDI membrane, including:

• Fleece lamination on both sides for optimal anchoring in the adhesive

• Imprinted gridlines

• Easy to cut using a cutter knife

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As Ross explained, “The Schlüter products are by far the best on the market. Using the vapour barrier KERDI-DS is great – the trust is there right from the word go! With the corner connections and KERDI-COLL, you don’t have to worry about watertightness and steam proofing. But once it’s all on and the banding is complete, it’s great to see the finished tanking.”

Ross installed DITRA on the floor to protect the tiles from substrate movement, providing waterproofing, vapour pressure equalisation, load transfer, and even heat distribution.

For Ross, attention to detail and using the right products were key to delivering a space that felt both indulgent and built to last. “The reason why we chose Schlüter is because it is the best,” he said. “For myself as a company, I only want to use the best product to give me peace of mind.”

Projects like this highlight how the right preparation and trusted materials can elevate even the most functional spaces into something special. For further information, call 01530 813396 or visit https://www.schluter.co.uk

FP McCann Thin Flat And Multi Ridge Roof Tiles Installed On Somerset Housing Development

FP McCann is supplying its thin leading edge interlocking concrete roof tiles branded ”Thin Flat” to a new housing development in Somerton near Yeovil, Somerset. The “Somerton Mead” site is a 69 plot collection of 2, 3 and 4 bedroom houses by national builder Bloor Homes. Bloor Homes South West division completed phase one of the Somerton Mead housing development last year.

With the addition of 69 homes in phase 2 and 3, the site will comprise 130 homes between Bancombe Road and Bradley Hill Lane in the north-west of the town. To complement the properties many of which consist of buff reconstituted stone walls to mimic the natural Somerset limestone, FP McCann Brown and Terracotta Thin Flat concrete roof and Multi Ridge tiles have been specified by Bloor Homes and installed by Taunton based roofing company, Deelis Roofing Ltd.

Some 35,000 Thin Flat tiles together with 2,500 Multi Ridge tiles will be required to complete the 69 houses. The FP McCann concrete roof and ridge tiles have been supplied from the company’s new ultra-modern £30 million tile factory in Cadeby near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. FP McCann’s stylish looking low-profile Thin Flat tile is also available in Black, Anthracite and Rustic Red and features a smooth, non-textured finish and straight cut edge. Commenting on the Thin Flat and Multi Ridge roof tile installation,

Keenan Hanratty, Site Manager for Bloor Homes says, “The low-profile brown and terracotta concrete tiles give the roofs on the new houses a distinctive stand-out appearance as to our design specification. The durable tiles are easy to fix with minimum breakage recorded. We will certainly consider using FP McCann’s roof tile range on any future home building schemes”. Further expansion at the fully automated Cadeby factory will shortly mean the introduction of additional tile profiles. All FP McCann concrete roof tiles and accessories are of the highest standard and are covered by a 15 year Guarantee.  www.fpmccann.co.uk