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Last Update: Sat Jan 10 08:04:04 2009

+ Hacked website + It seems that the malevolent minority have been hard at it defacing Joomla based websites. We were attacked. Please see this page [...] less than a 1 minute until security measures built in turned it off and restored the real home page. We have monitoring of the [...]

+ Roof Insulation can be a free commercial cost investment + I was reminded yesterday by a very clever commercial customer that investing in roof insulation in an industrial building is a no [...] repayable over 4 years can be arranged to cover the full cost of installing polyurethane spray foam roof insulation so long [...]

+ Muppets from roofing hell + After a bit of an absence I am back. How I have missed polyurethane foam! Something passed across my desk yesterday by way of a [...] seen this web site”. It never ceases to amaze me the rubbish that gets printed on the internet. My customer had entitled his [...]

+ Honesty is the policy + It was interesting that we had a service call today from a customer that we renovated a roof for and applied roof insulation with [...] the time we explained to the customer that unless he was prepared to drop ceilings then we would be unable to guarantee that his [...]

+ When is it going to warm up? + As a keen gardener I have been waiting for the weather to warm up a bit so that I can get on and start the garden for summer 2006. ...

+ Con Men and Rogue Traders + I was alerted to a “competitor” web site by a customer yesterday. This web site, leaving aside the very poor grammar, [...] van proudly displaying the BBA logo on their home page. They even claim “BBA 25 year approved system”. All lies I am [...]

+ Upsetting the neighbours + It seems our articles are upsetting some of our competitive neighbours. We received out of the blue an email yesterday from a [...] against us for mentioning the fact that Dow Chemical’s Froth Pak polyurethane spray kit are not fire rated. We quote below [...]

+ Aluminium foil insulation + There has been a bit of interest recently within Rooftherm about aluminium foil insulation. This is a composite product that is about [...] or so wide rolls. The foil is basically a sandwich of fibre insulation materials and aluminium foil. The idea is that you simply [...]

+ Cyprus is getting energy efficient + I had a short winter break with the family last week. Holiday for them, part holiday, part business for me. Whilst in Cyprus, which [...] What was particularly interesting was that all new housing developments had moved quite positively in the direction of energy [...]

+ Condensation micro climate + Rooftherm had an interesting problem and project this week. A developer had built flats and had used steel powered coated sheets for [...] was in the wind down phase and the new owners had taken residence. The developer had been in contact with us because, [...]

+ Reasons for insulation + I read this on a popular website why insulation is installed. These, apparently, are the reasons: • to comply with Building [...] control • to reduce heating plant capacity These all sound like corporate objectives to me, did the writer just have a [...]

+ When is a Velux not a Velux? + I saw an advertisement the other day by one of our competitors. They were advertising a free Velux roof window installed with every [...] have been offering a free Velux installed with every roof order for the past 2 months. The only problem with the advertisement, [...]

+ What rubbish + An interesting morning dealing with quite a number of new customer enquiries. One customer told me he was placing his order with us [...] quote but because we never once engaged in rubbishing our competition. He had contacted 5 other companies and all had [...]

+ Condensation Rules + It seems this is the season when condensation rules. We have received a record number of enquiries this winter from customers plagued [...] autumn and had followed the architect’s designs throughout. The roof called for powder coated steel sheets and the insulation [...]

+ What’s the BS factor in advertising? + A customer called me today to point out a web advertisement going out under Google Adwords. These are the adverts you see as [...] these adverts by the company concerned in the search results. Google get paid every time someone clicks on the sponsored link by [...]

+ Do a Google For Polyurethane + I don’t know about anyone else but I imagine they have the same problem I have. I get bad “good” results when I do an internet [...] what I mean. Whenever I do a Google search I get interesting web sites come up that look to have what I am interested in. [...]

+ A Cowboy Job + I received a call yesterday from a very nice chap named Jeff. You know how you can instantly take to some one who is pleasant, decent [...] foam roof insulation installed in his terraced property and had the work done by one of the direct sales companies based in [...]

+ Home Information Packs to be forced on us in 2007 + John Prescott has been busy. Finding himself something to do after his failed transport polices he has come up with: “The current [...] too much delay and failure. Home information packs are due to be introduced throughout England and Wales from the beginning of [...]

+ April 2006 New Building Regulations Enforced + Back to work with a bang this week. A lot of technical enquiries and unusual applications for spray foam polyurethane. One enquiry [...] where the roof was going to double up as a roof terrace, slabbed over and used as the patio above the single storey extension. [...]

+ Fair is Fair + Today, 2nd January 2006, is a Bank Holiday due to the fact New Year’s Day fell on a Sunday. Well, ever keen to promote [...] a staff member (me!) to come in to ensure our telephone lines are manned even though we do not really expect any telephone calls [...]