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Thursday, 31 July 2014

Scott Bader’s Innovative ‘Eco-friendly’ EHS CrysticROOF® at Ecobuild 2014

Scott Bader’s Innovative ‘Eco-friendly’ EHS CrysticROOF® at Ecobuild 2014





Scott Bader is exhibiting for the first time at Ecobuild 2014, taking place this year from 4-6 March at the ExCeL conference centre in London.  The Scott Bader stand (N540/41) will be promoting three new CrysticROOF® products recently developed. 
Scott Bader’s in-house R & D team has risen to the challenge of providing building designers, specifiers and contractors with innovative, new technologies in roofing products based on glass-reinforced polyester resin (GRP) and acrylic coatings which can help the environment and improve health and safety by reducing building energy consumption, reducing volatile emissions and improving fire resistance. CrysticROOF ‘BBA Premier’ is a BBA approved cold-applied GRP roofing system, which has proven itself as a long-lasting, leak-free alternative to traditional roofing materials, such as bitumen, felt and lead, and offers a 25 year guarantee if installed by a certified contractor.  
New Energy saving CrysticROOF ‘eco’ coating
During Ecobuild the new energy saving ‘eco’ CrysticROOF coating will be demonstrated on the Scott Bader stand to show an innovative new ‘energy reflecting’ coating, which offers the combined benefits of a choice of roof colour other than white, ranging from yellow to dark grey, while also significantly reducing heat build-up in the roof due to the reflective properties of this new CrysticROOF ‘eco’ coating to the near infra-red (NIR) radiation in natural sunlight. According to independent experts, 53% of the sun’s heating effect is due to the infra-red energy, so by applying the NIR reflective CrysticROOF ‘eco’ coating product on a flat or pitched roof, it will help to significantly reduce the daytime surface temperature of the roof. The advantage of a cooler roof for any air-conditioned, climate controlled building is a decrease in energy consumption and related CO2, emissions, which could reduce by as much as a 52% annually. As well as reducing the running costs and the carbon footprint of a building, there are added benefits for both the design and maintenance of a building roof by having a less extreme temperature change cycle over a 24hr period, resulting in less thermal warping and thermal stress.
New ‘Flexible’ Wet-on-Wet CrysticROOF system
The new flexible grade CrysticROOF system being promoted at Ecobuild offers installers a fire-rated cold applied liquid system which can be applied immediately under damp, wet conditions to a base coat and still be tack free in less than three hours. The flexible system works in a wide range of summer and winter outdoor temperatures and variety of surfaces. According to Scott Bader, provided a suitable primer is correctly applied, it can be used as to cover a variety of common bitumen or cement based flat roofing substrates, as well as with some proprietary foam or foil roofing products. This new flexible CrysticROOF topcoat uses a ‘next generation’ polyurethane (PU) based non-gassing GRP resin system which has very low VOC emissions, offering improved environmental, health and safety (EHS) for installers.
New ‘Standard’ Fire Retardant CrysticROOF System  
Scott Bader has developed a new version of CrysticROOF topcoat, which is a specially formulated fire resistant (FR) isophthalic topcoat. This new FR topcoat will become part of the standard CrysticROOF system. By offering a FR rated GRP flat roof system as standard, Scott Bader aims to help customers and contractors make the right choice and avoid the risk of not meeting fire safety legislation and building regulations by opting to install CrysticROOF, confident that it is an approved and tested FR roof system which meets BS476 Part 3, yet still provides the long term UV resistance and weathering performance. 
CrysticROOF provides a high performance solution for all roof structures, including flat, valley and pitched - and for all shapes, including walkways, roof-lights and balconies. This GRP flat roof system eliminates the need for heating equipment and, when applied correctly, remains watertight and maintenance-free for many years. CrysticROOF ‘BBA Premier’ is available from a fully trained and accredited CrysticROOF installer, and comes with a 25 year materials guarantee to remain watertight and maintenance free.        
All CrysticROOF resins and topcoats are developed in house by Scott Bader’s R & D chemists, and are manufactured in its UK plant in Northamptonshire to ISO 9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards and procedures. Scott Bader has over 60 years’ experience in polyester chemistry and advanced GRP systems for demanding building and construction, marine, and transportation applications. 
The full range of CrysticROOF products, including a range of high quality trims and ancillaries, is exclusively stocked by SIG Roofing Supplies in the UK and supplied nationally to roofing installers via local SIG outlets. Scott Bader is also an associate member of the National Federation of Roofing Contractors.  
For further information about approved installers, details of local suppliers, a practical step by step video about how to apply the CrysticROOF system, and to download a brochure, go to   www.crysticroof.com, or e-mail enquiries@crysticroof.com .  For more information about Scott Bader Company Ltd and the compete ranges of speciality chemicals and composites products offered, go to www.scottbader.com
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Friday, 25 July 2014

Know Your Stuff: The 110 Best DIY Tips Ever (4)




Know Your Stuff: The 110 Best DIY Tips Ever

For Popular Mechanics' 110th anniversary, we decided to do something special: We dived into our archives to find the 110 best, handiest, and most helpful tips ever printed in PM. It's more than a century of DIY wisdom. (You can read the introduction to the project here.)

BY THE EDITORS


Source_http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/skills/know-your-stuff-the-110-best-diy-tips-ever#slide-4

Copper Wire Flashlight Stand

To set up a simple worklight, coil 12-gauge copper wire around a flashlight's barrel and twist the rest into a base. — March 2011

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Know Your Stuff: The 110 Best DIY Tips Ever (3)





Know Your Stuff: The 110 Best DIY Tips Ever

For Popular Mechanics' 110th anniversary, we decided to do something special: We dived into our archives to find the 110 best, handiest, and most helpful tips ever printed in PM. It's more than a century of DIY wisdom. (You can read the introduction to the project

BY THE EDITORS


Source_http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/skills/know-your-stuff-the-110-best-diy-tips-ever#slide-4

Find a Key, Fast

File a notch in a frequently used key's top to locate it without looking through the whole set. — April 1984

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Know Your Stuff: The 110 Best DIY Tips Ever (2)



Know Your Stuff: The 110 Best DIY Tips Ever

For Popular Mechanics' 110th anniversary, we decided to do something special: We dived into our archives to find the 110 best, handiest, and most helpful tips ever printed in PM. It's more than a century of DIY wisdom. (You can read the introduction to the project here.)

BY THE EDITORS



Brace for Boards

Our September 1948 issue showed how to store an ironing board upright in a closet by mounting a towel rack to a wall. The board's tip slips up under the chest-high rack. It's still a good idea. At the right height, a rack (or a rig made of steel pipe fittings) could support brooms or lumber.

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Thursday, 24 July 2014

The five best bike storage solutions

The five best bike storage solutions


(source link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/seasonal-property/10953263/The-five-best-bike-storage-solutions.html)

If you've been inspired by the Tour de France and have bought the latest bike, you're going to need somewhere better than a shed to store it.

Asgard Annexe bike shed
Asgard Annexe is an investment at £550, but it is also insurance approved 
Cycling is one of the fastest growing sports in the UK - and after the success of the British leg of the Tour de France, no doubt a new wave of cyclists will be inspired. But once you've bought all of the (expensive) kit, you need to think about the less glamourous side - where to put it. Inside your house is probably the safest option, but if you don’t have much space (or your other half can’t stand the sight of your muddy bike) and you don’t have a garage (like most people living in cities) then what else is out there?
Asgard Annexe, £550 (pictured above)
This is a beast of a bike shed. Comes in green or ivory it can store three bikes (including, and I’ve tried, bikes with baskets), plus helmets, shoes and all other cycling paraphernalia. The shed is made from thick galvanised steel panels (11 in total), more than 150 screws, brackets and fixing devices and has a heavy-duty integral metal floor 5-point locking system; the main lock is a Euro cylinder which is claimed to be pick and drill resistant. It needs around 2 square metres of outdoor space and a flat, concrete surface to sit on. Asgard can construct it for you – but if you try it yourself you will need a powerdriver screwdriver and a friend to help. It’s definitely an investment (isn’t everything to do with cycling) and more expensive than a garden shed, but if you’ve got two-three expensive bikes then it’s worth it, especially as the Annexe is insurance approved. Be warned – some London boroughs don’t let you put up a shed in your front garden, so check first.

(source link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/seasonal-property/10953263/The-five-best-bike-storage-solutions.html)


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Living like Bilbo Baggins: life in an eco-friendly 'hobbit house'

Living like Bilbo Baggins: life in an eco-friendly 'hobbit house'


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Caroline McGhie meets the pioneers of a picturesque and eco-friendly roundhouse

Tony Wrench and his partner Jane Faith live in a pioneering roundhouse near Newport in Wales, a picturesque Bilbo Baggins-style property
Wildwood ways: Tony Wrench built a low-impact, sustainable and circular eco home  


Tony Wrench and his partner Jane Faith are well known in certain circles. They live in a pioneering roundhouse near Newport in Wales, a picturesque Bilbo Baggins-style property with a frame made of Douglas fir and a roof made of straw which has a chimney poking through. It is called That Roundhouse.
Inside, the wood floors are laid with rugs and sofas, and chairs have sheepskins thrown over them. A black kettle sits on the woodburner and a washing line close to the chimney is hung with laundry. Upstairs is a sleeping platform. The house is carefully thought through, and would appeal to anyone who has the spirit of the wildwood in them.
Tony, who was an early pioneer of the organic house, makes his living off the land as much as possible, but also runs courses on how to build roundhouses and has recently published a new edition of his book, Building a Low Impact Roundhouse.
Carefully thought through: the inside of the roundhouse
“This is an eco home of wood frame, cob wood and recycled windows, with a straw insulated turf roof, solar power, compost toilet and reed beds for grey water,” he says. “We designed and built it over the winter of 1997 and 1998.” But the planners didn’t like it, especially as he didn’t have planning permission. It worried them. Was it temporary or permanent? Were they travellers or settlers? Tony applied for retrospective planning permission but it was turned down. There followed a ten-year legal battle and That Roundhouse became a cause célèbre as Tony agreed to demolish it over Easter 2004. There was public outcry and the demolition was postponed.
Since then, as fears of global warming and interest in sustainability have grown, the thinking about these kinds of buildings has changed. In 2006, Tony reapplied to Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, arguing that it complied with a need for new low-impact development. It was turned down again but he joined forces with a friend who had built a roundhouse across the field. They finally persuaded the planning committee to grant temporary permission.
More recently, other communities have sprung up, building their own eco homes. And from the Orkneys to Somerset, many people have experimented with straw-bale houses. Kevin McCloud has championed a self-build by woodman Ben Law made using similar techniques, naming it the favourite of all his Grand Designs. The Sustainability Centre near Petersfield in Hampshire promotes the light-footprint lifestyle and forest school skills to thousands of adults and children each year.
That Roundhouse may have taken 1,500 man hours to build but it cost only £3,000. For Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture Magazine, it suggests that alternative thinking might help the current housing crisis. “This kind of house is almost biodegradable,” she says, “so it fits the need for low-impact development and for young families to have somewhere affordable to live. House building is all about architects and big builders, but historically villages built for their own villagers.
“The other point is that low-impact dwellings which use local materials can also be energy efficient, using the best woodburners, solar thermal and photovoltaics. This handbook has been updated and has evolved as techniques have improved.”
'Building a Low Impact Roundhouse’, by Tony Wrench, published byPermanent Publications (£12.95)

(source link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/greenproperty/10983090/Living-like-Bilbo-Baggins-life-in-an-eco-friendly-hobbit-house.html)
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