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Transform Your Garage: Essential Upgrades for DIY Vehicle Maintenance

UK Construction Blog

Whether you’re a weekend tinkerer or someone who simply wants to handle basic maintenance tasks, optimising your garage setup is the first step toward automotive self-sufficiency. Installing bright LED lights (3000-5000 lumens) eliminates shadows under vehicles and in engine compartments.

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Promat provides fire resistant glazing solutions for Sheffield’s landmark Kangaroo Works

Specification Product Update

Fire resistant glazing and fire-rated glass door-sets manufactured by Promat UK have been installed to provide assured passive fire protection whilst maintaining high levels of natural light in key communal areas within a major new build-to-rent (BTR) development in South Yorkshire.

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Professional Epoxy Flooring in Manchester: Durable Solutions for Every Space

UK Construction Blog

Professional Manchester epoxy floor contractors bring over 40 years of experience, ensuring flawless installations with minimal disruption even in high-traffic environments like the University of Manchester and Arndale Centre. Epoxy flooring is a thermosetting polymer that creates a rigid plastic material when mixed with a hardener.

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Essential Tips for Securely Storing Construction Materials

PN - Project Management

"Poor storage of construction materials can result in the materials being damaged or stolen." ​Ensuring the safety and integrity of the construction materials needed to complete a build is a huge priority. After all, securely storing construction materials is a logistical necessity and crucial to project success!

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High-Rise Maintenance: Innovative Solutions for Building Care

CCR Magazine

From drones that inspect hard-to-reach places to smart systems that predict equipment failure, the options available today are both fascinating and practical. Look for signs of wear, such as spalling or erosion, which might indicate water infiltration or material degradation.

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Demystifying fire-retardant treated wood specifications

Construction Specifier

is experiencing a “wood revival” contributing to the complexity of fire-retardant-treated wood (FRTW) specifications. This demand for wood products continues to grow as designers appreciate its renewability, versatility, aesthetics, and most important, its ability to sequester carbon once installed. Performance requirements.

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Best practices for waterproofing buried roofs

GCP Applied Technologies

In addition, the waterproofing system for buried roofs needs to be particularly durable. Since the material will ultimately lie underneath landscaping or other finishes, it becomes very disruptive to have to make repairs if leaks occur. Because of this, waterproofing materials need to last for the life of the building itself.