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PRESS RELEASE AUTUMN 2007
CONSERVATORY / ORANGERY
ROOF LANTERN / GARDEN ROOM
FOLDING SLIDING DOORS
Open up your home with space and light – bring your house and garden together year round!
Malbrook’s wonderful folding sliding door system allows you to open up the back of your house with a system of doors that fold and slide to exactly where you want them, using finger tip touch control.
Using the latest technology available in timber and glass you can add space to your home whilst satisfying the strictest building regulations and safety requirements.
See our website “folding sliding door” section or email Jackie on info@malbrook.co.uk for high resolution images.
ROOF LANTERNS and ROOF LIGHTS
Malbrook are experienced in designing and constructing roof lanterns and roof lights, which allow light into previously dark areas or can be inserted into newly constructed flat roofs, to ensure that you maximise valuable space and add value to your home.
Recessed low voltage lighting and electrically operated roof vents allow control of the environment year round.
See our website “Orangeries and Roof Lights” section or email Jackie on info@malbrook.co.uk for high resolution images.
ORANGERIES
Originally the orangery type greenhouse was developed for the cultivation of orange trees in the cool British climate. Nowadays an Orangery provides an interesting alternative to the Conservatory, combining solid walls with a glazed roof.
This is often in the form of a roof lantern (or two) inset into a flat roof with folding sliding doors opening up the whole space to the garden.
See our website “Orangeries and Roof Lights” section or email Jackie on info@malbrook.co.uk for high resolution images.
CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION WORK
Malbrook specialises in the design, production and installation of fine buildings in timber and glass. Particular attention is paid to the architectural details of a property, and the traditional joinery methods of construction are well suited to providing quality double-glazed structures for restoration and refurbishment projects.
The experienced staff at Malbrook offer a full design service to assist clients and their architects in order to ensure the best possible solution. This attention to detail is maintained by close supervision throughout the installation process including all the finishing touches on site.
See our website “Heritage – Listed and Specialised projects” section or email Jackie on info@malbrook.co.uk for high resolution images.
PRESS RELEASE
What is a Conservatory? What is an Orangery?
A Greenhouse? A Garden Room?
Gone are the days of the bolt on standard “Victorian” UPVC conservatory that has blighted so much of our housing stock. Now clients are very aware of quality and design and specialist companies are far less likely to try to sell a standard design that has no contextual relevance to the property – most quality companies now offer an architecturally designed purpose built (or bespoke) service that works internally and externally.
The extension to your house will feature low Emissivity double glazing (the technology has advanced beyond recognition in the last 5 years), but whether this makes up the whole roof or is just part of it in the form of a roof lantern or two is a matter of design. Then of course you may decide to have sliding, folding doors rather than the more conventional French doors ………
All Malbrook buildings are unique, designed as the space you need - a dining area? extra kitchen space? plant room? swimming pool cover? study? They are built using hardwood from sustainable sources and double glazed to satisfy the most stringent requirements.
PRESS RELEASE
HOW TO CHOOSE A COMPANY
Recommendation! (Malbrook’s business is 75% recommendation.) You are going to spend a lot of money and you will have the builders in your house for a few weeks. Check the company is in good financial health as you will probably be asked for a substantial deposit to cover initial expenses. If you are at all concerned set up an ESCROW account.
If the company hasn’t been recommended ask to see an existing building and talk to the owner (without a salesperson there!) you will soon know which company you want to go with. Remember your design will be unique but the service, before, during and after, will be the same! Malbrook uses qualified surveyors to supervise the whole project.
VISIT FROM THE COMPANY’S REPRESENTATIVE
Firstly are there any restrictions you need to consider with Planning Regulations and Building Control? Within those guidelines, work together on designing the ideal space for your requirements along with such concerns as heating and ventilation.
You should never feel hurried or hassled. This is a project that takes time and the details are very important – paint colours? Door furniture? Security system? Ventilation? Blinds? Under floor heating? Do they attend closely to details like powder coating the roof caps to match the paintwork, do they carry out the final painting and lead flashing? Can you choose your own door and window furniture finishes? Malbrook’s clients often include quite a few extras, like doors and windows to match, or even glass floors and dog flaps! The company’s willingness to deal with detail is a good guide as to the service you will be given once the order has been placed.
Don’t forget to pay a lot of attention to how building will look from the outside as it should blend in with your house – so it looks like it was intended by the original architect not like a “carbuncle” added later and with little concern for aesthetics.
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Malbrook Conservatories and Orangeries
Jackie Savage says:
“A lot of our clients are very keen gardeners and they find that the addition of a Conservatory or Orangery or Garden Room will not only give them much needed added living space but also the chance to grow beautiful tropical plants as well.
If you would like to grow such beauties as Orchids, Abutilon, Dipladenia, Citrus, Bougainvillea, Plumbago and Strelitzia (as shown in the photographs), then look for a company that will give you advice early on in the planning stage. You need to discuss light levels, humidity, heating, flooring, shading, ventilation and planting beds. Expect such advice to ensure you have no regrets later on. For example to ensure Bougainvillea blooms freely an in-ground bed and the right orientation are essential. Malbrook recommend the services of a plant specialist who works closely with the company.
Plants (and people) thrive in the proper environment and you should insist on the use of high quality hardwood frame with argon filled, low emissivity, double glazed units to ensure insulation which will satisfy the most recent building regulations.
I think the real pleasure of a conservatory (especially for a keen gardener) is in winter. You can listen to music, read and enjoy a glass of wine or even a gin and tonic with lemon from your own tree! It’s like being on a tropical holiday without leaving home!”
Photographs available on request
Jackie Savage
020 8780 5522
info@malbrook.co.uk
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