Lock Up and Lock Them Out – Safety Ensured Doors

Burglaries are devastating. There’s the physical destruction of having your home intruded on by strangers, a mess made, entrances broken and the emotional turmoil that follows. It can have a coinciding effect of anxiety on those whose homes have been burgled and feelings of despair from losing expensive or sentimental items. A recent increase in […]

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Door Frame Colour Consideration

Choosing colour schemes is an exciting and favoured choice to make when renovating your home, or moving into somewhere new that you want to distinguish as your own.   The walls, the floors, the upholstery and – sometimes forgotten but nevertheless important – the doors.   (Check out our modern and innovative swing and slide […]

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Profix Proud to Support ‘Building Our Skills’ Industry Initiative

A lack of skills and labour shortages has been a hot topic in the construction industry for a while now and many in the window and door sector are talking about the knock-on consequences for our sector as well as on individual businesses. The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors published the results of a survey […]

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Are your rental properties efficient enough?

On April 1st new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards were introduced, meaning that around 400,000 homes across England and Wales may be rendered unlettable because they waste too much energy.  The new standards say that all commercial and residential rental properties must achieve a rating of Grade E on Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) for any new […]

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The Humble Back Door

Spring is the time when many homeowners start their home improvement plans. Regardless of what the housing market is doing, people want homes they can be proud of and this often starts at the entrance.  Creating a grand entranceway to a home is becoming increasing popular and according to property experts they are now a […]

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The Perfect Patio Door Accessory

Whether you’re adding an extension or building a new home, linking the outside with the inside is highly desirable. Thanks to design and engineering innovation in the latest bi-fold and patio doors, huge spans of light are now achievable through larger, undisrupted panes of glass. But as beautiful as it is, having light flooding into […]

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Profix Puts The Brakes On Bad Windows

The home of Alcon Components Ltd has recently undergone a full office refurbishment, which included a window replacement programme carried out by Profix.  Alcon, established by engineer and sports car racer John Moore, has gone from making brakes for Audi Sport’s Group B Quattro rally cars to providing braking solutions for the top echelons of […]

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The Power Of Social Media

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With over 2 billion active users, Facebook represents a huge potential market for us, but it is well reported that it is becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd.  Videos are helping to combat this, especially on mobile, and over the past year the time people spent watching Facebook Live every day has […]

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Traditional Colours With Modern Day Choices

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Who said colour was a modern trend?  As well as window styles varying throughout the ages, fashions in colours have changed as well.  For example, in the 17th Century windows were predominately oak or left unpainted, whereas skipping forward to the 19th Century windows were always painted.  Staining was not a traditional finish.  Many of […]

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Another Good Year For Profix

2017 has been a good and busy year for The Profix Group. Profix Window Systems and Grand Entrance have been busy in both the social housing refurb sector, as well as new build supply and installations.  It’s our #onecall responsive service, backed up by our comprehensive product range and considerable experience and knowledge of these sectors, that […]

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