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Traditionally styled softwood windows, manufactured by British Woodworking Federation member George Barnsdale, have improved aesthetics at a retirement home in Poundbury, Dorset. Tall casement windows and shallow arched head windows were used to achieve the required proportions for the home's elevations. All were factory finished using a Sadolin micro-porous woodstain system in green.

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Barnsdale, a member of the British Woodworking Federation, has supplied 120 timber windows, mainly weight and pulley type, for a period building in London?s West End. Single glazed windows with 12.8mm sound reducing glass were installed on the Picadilly and Old Park Lane elevations, with double glazed ?H? windows fitted to the rear.

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Effectiveness of fire doors has been demonstrated in the aftermath of a blaze at Trago Mills, a shopping village in Newton Abbot, Devon. The British Woodworking Federation points out that while the fire devastated one side of the fire doors, the other side remained unscathed. Such was the protection afforded by the fire doors, the 200 firefighters who battled to contain the blaze were able to save two-thirds of the building.

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