Is It Time to Upgrade Your Windows & Doors?

The cold winter days and nights have, hopefully, long gone and we look forward to the warmer and lighter days ahead as spring arrives and we look forward to summer. The spring season is a popular time of the calendar year for homeowners to start looking at planning home renovations and improvements. We ask, is it time to upgrade those drafty, insecure and ageing windows and doors!

When choosing new windows and doors for your home, there are many initial design aspects to consider. Colour, configuration and style will undoubtedly add kerb appeal and elegance to your property. However, there are a further two key qualities in security and thermal performance that are just as, if not more vital, when choosing your new windows and doors. This is why you need to choose a window and door profile system that ticks those all-important boxes.

NEW ADVANCE 70 WINDOWS & DOORS

The ADVANCE 70 System is a PVCu window and door system that ultimately provides you with a plethora of technical, practical and aesthetical benefits that you would come to expect from a modern product. It important that the aesthetics of the product compliment the style, period and location of your home. This includes the colour, configuration or design of the new windows and doors.

Over the last few years, white is no longer considered the main option for PVCu window and doors as a host of colour options have entered the market. You can only notice the sheer volume of coloured PVCu windows and doors being installed in new builds and also within the home improvement market. Coloured windows and doors have become extremely popular, as homeowners look to add that distinctiveness to their homes.

Grey windows and doors continue to be the most popular colour shade within the market. However, Black has now provided a touch of elegance and authenticity as homes are looking for an industrial look to not only the external façade but also internally.

The ADVANCE 70 window and door system provides you with a standard palette of 17 colours, which can be on the outside, inside or both sides of a window or door. Whether you’re looking for the contemporary colour shades of Ulti-Matt Black, Anthracite Grey or Agate Grey or the authentic wood grained finishes of Mountain Oak, Irish Oak or Rosewood, there’s an effect to suit your home and surrounding environment.

When it comes to the configuration and style of new windows and doors, there are a number of options and ancillaries available, all designed to suit an array of property styles. A number of window and door solutions that compliment modern, traditional and period styled homes are available to meet your specific needs. For example, you can have windows with Georgian bar, sash horns or lead to replicate a certain period; tilt and turn windows for easy maintenance, where external access is limited; and flush sash windows that imitate their timber equivalent, which work so well in both modern and traditional homes.

If you’re looking for that elegant entrance door, sliding door solution or traditional opening to the outside there are a multitude of options available. You may require a door simply for practicality and durability, or a door that fits in to both your home and lifestyle.

For durability and robustness there’s a composite door, whereas a French door is versatile and practical with a number of options to open up your home. When it comes to sliding doors, the simplistic and classical appearance of a sliding patio door can help you create large panes of glass and a panoramic view of the landscape beyond.

Alternatively, you can add that real ‘wow’ factor with EASi-FOLD doors, which are the innovative and revolutionary alternative to bi-fold doors. What makes these even more amazing is that each pane of glass moves individually along a track, pivots and swings alongside the master door.

SECURE & THERMALLY EFFICIENT WINDOWS & DOORS

Whilst the appearance of new windows and doors are of major importance in keeping with the character and look of your home, it is vitally important that they also improve the security and the efficiency of the building. ADVANCE 70 windows and doors come with an enhanced security option, tested to PAS 24 and Secured By Design specification and standards.

This makes them extremely secure, meeting the rigorous testing requirements and the official police security initiative. They are also Building Regulation Document Q compliant for enhanced security, therefore giving you complete confidence and peace of mind when it comes to replacement of new build projects. More importantly, protecting your family and home from unwanted visitors.

With rising energy bills, improving the thermal performance of homes continues to be an important factor, helping to not only reduce energy consumption and costs, but also in regards to reducing the impact on the environment. With legislative changes forthcoming, mainly to Building Regulations Document L and the incoming Future Homes Standard, windows and doors can play a major part in improving the overall thermal efficiency of your home.

The thermal performance of windows and doors are measured by their ‘U’ Value, which is the rate of transfer of heat through a structure. ADVANCE 70 System window and door solutions have been simulated with specific glass specifications to meet not only the existing requirements, but also the impending Future Homes Standard. What makes this system more beneficial for the homeowner is that a ‘U’ Value of 1.1 W/m²K can be achieved with standard double-glazed units, making them a more cost-effective solution than its triple glazed counterpart. This can be improved further with a triple-glazed units ‘U’ Value of 0.8 W/m²K and increased sound insulation.

DESIGN YOUR OWN WINDOWS & DOORS!

When you are looking to upgrade your existing windows and doors, it can be very difficult to envisage how they may look in your home. Certain designs, colours and combinations may not entirely compliment the style, period or location of your home. Modern PVCu windows and doors now offer more designs, colours and options than ever before, providing you with a multitude of choices. As the homeowner, how do you know if a particular design or colour will compliment the style of your home?

www.advance70.co.uk provides you with a wealth of information and guidance window and doors solutions. The website also provides you with the facility to design your own windows and doors. The innovative window and door designing software solution demonstrates its true value to you, the homeowner, when you upload images of your home and start using the home visualiser function!

The Window and Door Designer and Home Visualiser has a complete range window and door solutions, from casement, flush sash and tilt and turn windows through to residential, French, patio and EASi-FOLD doors. It also includes a range of composite doors, so you have a varied range of products, styles and configurations to choose from to improve your home.

The whole design and enquiry process is purposely kept simple. As a homeowner, you can select a number of window and door configurations and styles, choose the internal and external colour, the hardware colour and other glazing options like Georgian bar or leaded glass. The real beauty of the designer is that you can take photos of your home, upload them in to the home visualiser and drop your newly designed windows and doors on to your home to envisage how they would look!

When you consider that you are investing a large sum of money when upgrading your windows and doors, it’s only right that you are able to visualise how they will fit in to the make-up of your home. It’s also worth remembering the right combination and colour of your windows and doors can add kerb appeal and increase value, but get it wrong and it can have an adverse effect!

HAPPY WITH YOUR NEWLY DESIGNED WINDOWS AND DOORS?

Once you are happy with your newly designed windows and doors, you can submit your enquiry, and a copy of your design will be emailed to yourself. Your design enquiry will be assessed and forwarded to your local approved fabricator / installer for quotation. With well over 250 approved fabricators / installers located across the UK, your enquiry will only be shared with one local supply partner. They will contact you to either quote and / or arrange a more detailed survey to determine your more specific requirements and options available to you.

You can in-turn utilise the Find a Fabricator / Installer feature upon the ADVANCE 70 in the home website to locate as many approved fabricator / installers as you wish, contacting at your will, using your PDF design as a template for your enquiry. This provides you with total control over the number of quotes you wish to receive to further your enquiry.

Is it time to upgrade your windows and doors and make your home more secure, thermally efficient and elegant? If so, head over to www.advance70.co.uk now and start designing!

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