AKW MediCare appoints new CEO

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About AKW MediCare

AKW MediCare are leading suppliers of high quality showering, daily living, kitchen and bathroom solutions to the elderly and less able. With over 20 years experience in the special needs market we design and manufacture products specifically for the end user. We do not adapt existing products to suit our client’s needs.

AKW supply solutions to the majority of local authorities, housing associations and contractors within the UK through a highly experienced national sales team.

Our national sales team and trained surveyors are dedicated to providing detailed product knowledge and advice on which products would best suit the user’s requirements.

AKW MediCare appoints new CEO

AKW MediCare, the UKs leading supplier of elderly and disabled shower and kitchen products, has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer to help drive significant growth and expansion plans in the UK and internationally.

Paul Massey, aged 56, joins AKW MediCare with immediate effect, bringing a wealth of business management, specialist manufacturing and commercial experience to the main board.

Established in 1980, AKW MediCare designs and manufactures more than 5,000 specialist solution products including easy access shower, kitchen and daily living aids which enable people to maintain their independence and stay in their own home.

With its head office, warehouse and distribution sites based in Droitwich, Worcestershire, AKW MediCare has an annual turnover of more than 40 million and employs in excess of 260 people in the UK and overseas. The business also has international operations in the USA, Europe and China, as well as a distribution centre and sales office in Belgium, which was opened in January 2009. 

A qualified engineer who has worked within the specialist building products sector for more than 35 years, Paul Massey was previously Managing Director at Ideal Stelrad Group UK, a leading boiler and radiator manufacturer.  After successfully delivering significant growth within the UK market, Mr. Massey was appointed to Ideal Stelrads executive board of directors in 2008 as Chief Commercial Officer for their European and Turkish businesses.  Mr. Massey is also the immediate  past President of SBGI incorporating Utility Networks and the Heating Hotwater Industry Council (HHIC) where he was Chairman. 

Speaking of his appointment, Paul Massey said: 

 AKW MediCare has built its market-leading position by offering high-quality products to customers, backing this up with excellent after sales service and high-calibre employees. We have several new product and business innovations in the pipeline, all of which present exciting opportunities for growth.  I am confident that we can deliver significant revenue and profit growth in the near future. 

Tony Clarkson, AKW MediCares Executive Chairman added:

On behalf of everyone at AKW MediCare, I would like to officially welcome Paul to the business. I have watched Paul’s career progression in a similar industry and feel confident that he is the ideal person to lead AKW into its next stage of development and ultimately, deliver on the ambitious growth objectives that have been identified. 

Mr. Massey is married with four children and lives in Worcestershire.  A keen sportsman, he was previously a professional footballer, ran the 2009 London Marathon, competes in triathlons and plays squash for Stratford-upon-Avon First Team.

Max Rennie – MyTub

The Radiator Company

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The UKs largest selection of designer radiators, with over 12 years experience to help you choose the perfect radiator for your home.

The Radiator Company was formed in 1998 and since then they have become one of the largest retail distributors in the UK and Ireland. Their success is based on their ability to keep developing their range of radiators, towel warmers , valves and accessories to reflect the latest in design trends and technical developments. They believe that they have the most extensive range in the UK and they are committed to meeting your every domestic and commercial heating requirement by providing you with:

  • Unbeatable Service; to make your purchase smooth as possible
  • The UK’s largest choice; thousands of combinations from over 90 ranges in up to 200 colours
  • Showrooms; over 600 showrooms nationwide
  • National Merchant Network; wherever you are they have a local Merchant who can provide and order your radiators
  • Free delivery; to mainland UK invoice address
  • Quality guaranteed; they only source high quality products, with a minimum guarantee of 5 years on all radiators and towel rails
  • Automatic radiator bleed valve; The HV30 British designed auto air vent is included with all suitable products

In addition to ensuring that you can purchase Radiator Company products locally, their network of Showrooms and Merchants will also be able to give you expert advice as well as help with your other plumbing and heating needs.

Below are just a few of the products Trc Towel Warmer and Decorative Rads have to offer

Panorama

The Panorama is a solid brass radiator available in three finishes. Produced to a high quality, the Panorama comes with integral valves that provide a perfect finish.

Available in Chrome, Pewter and Brushed Nickel

For more information on this products please visit our site.

Gullwing

The Gullwing’s subtle curved lines will create a stunning focal point – especially if you choose the optional chrome or nickel finish.

Available in 22 RAL colours including white 9010 as standard plus 14 special finishes plus chrome & nickel.

For more information on this products please visit our site.

Planning a new bathroom? Tips for the householder

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What questions should you ask?
What must you take into account in regards to the room itself?
How a lot house is required?
What about the interior design – how would you like it?

Inquiries to ask

What is disliked in regards to the existing bathroom?
What’s liked about the present bathroom?
What must be included while in the new bathroom?
Can the present bathroom be extended?
Are there any alternatives to incorporate services elsewhere in the home
Can a second bathroom be produced?
Is the property affected by planning or building regulations?
How many people will likely be using the new bathroom?
What “kind” of individual might be using the new bathroom?
What, if any, are the special wants of the customers within the new bathroom?
Will special needs be required while in the future?
What bathroom equipment should be included within the new bathroom
Is the present heating and air flow ample, or can it’s improved?
What color?
What fashion?
What’s the budget?
Any storage required, and is it essential?
Who will do the work?

Room concerns

Can the room be extended in any approach?
Can the airing cabinet be demolished and the tank repositioned?
Can a partition wall be eliminated?
Soil and waste pipes, can they be moved?
Which manner do the ground joists run?
Will these affect the repositioning of any of the tools

Heating and ventilation

Can the radiator, or ventilation fan be repositioned?

Shower

Can a current enclosure be moved?

Electrics

Will these be affected and might they be repositioned?

Lighting

How will the sunshine from the window have an effect on the general lighting scheme?
Should intense lighting be utilized in areas the place make up and shaving is carried out?

Entrance door

Can or not it’s repositioned?
Can the door be hung the other method?
Can the door be made to open outwards?

Interior design issues

What style is required within the new room?
What temper is required?
What wall coverings are preferred?
What flooring coverings are most well-liked?
What smooth furnishings are most popular?
What paint effects are most well-liked

Colour considerations

Color is probably the most exciting, most immediately noticeable and the least expensive element in decorating. Completely different color mixtures could make the identical room welcoming or impersonal, warm or cool, restful or stimulating. In brief color is extremely vital in interior decoration.

Person area

Listed below are some hints which you should utilize during layout planning:

Washbasin 1000 x 700 mm in entrance of the washbasin
WC 800 x 600 mm in front of WC
Bath 1100 x 700 mm in front of bath aspect
Bidet 800 x 600 mm in entrance of bidet

UK Water Regulations

On 1st January 2001 the Water Laws (Water Fittings) Laws got here into force.
Part of the laws state that it’s illegal to put in a new toilet suite which flushes with greater than 6 litres of water.

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY 6 LITRE FLUSH

The introduction of the 6 litre flush dramatically reduces the amount of water used each single day in the Uk. One and a half litres is saved (in contrast with the earlier 7.5 litre normal) with each flush helping to conserve valuable water resources.

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Ideal Standard International Unveils New Clerkenwell Bathroom Design studio

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – Ideal Standard International, a number one provider of innovative and design-driven bathroom solutions, right now launched the Bath Room, a singular useful resource centre and design studio for architects and interior designers, in Clerkenwell, London.

Designed by main interior designers Ben Kelly Design, the Bath Room showcases over 300 of the newest products from Ideal Standard International and gives inspiration, sensible information and house to research.

The Bath Room contains 3000 square feet on the second floor area at: 99 Charterhouse Road, Clerkenwell, London. The Bath Room offers a central London showcase demonstrating Ideal Standard International’s experience in bathroom design and delivers a novel unrivalled service becoming the “place to be” for designers and designers to create a bathroom specification.

At the launch of the Bath Room, designer Ben Kelly shared his views on the event and the aim of the design studio. Ben Kelly said: “The Bath Room has been developed as a hybrid environment. It has reference to laboratories, studios and hotel bathrooms. This exciting venue has actually been thought by way of from a designer’s perspective. It is the primary of its type offering each a showroom of products and the scope to design and map out a bathroom on-site. It can also be a great place to satisfy and network with different designers and architects”.

“The Bath Room can be used by designers as an extended work space where they may have the opportunity to sizzling desk, view products, create specification packages, view bespoke mock room sets and visualise merchandise by way of 3D Cad.” Designers can make their selections, taking expert advice from the Bath Room’s workforce who will create the desired specification, making certain shoppers go away with full confidence with their specification.
The bathroom design studio is primarily targeted at 4 key sectors including inside design, architects, motels and property developers and might be organised into ‘zones’ to meet the wants of industry visitors. The showroom will characteristic 4 brands comprising Ideal Standard , Armitage Shanks, Sottini  and Jado
showering. Additionally, Ideal Standard International has teamed up with German bathroom manufacturer Gerloff to showcase a brand new top end working pod called Q Five, aimed at motels and developers.

About Ideal Standard:
As Europe’s leading bathroom model, Ideal Standard’s purpose is to create a life house that reflects personalised nicely-being. The model follows three important philosophies: design, performance and innovation. Ideal Standard is the flagship model of Ideal Standard International.

About Ideal Standard International:
Ideal Standard International is a privately-owned firm headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, working independently in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America. With bathroom solutions as its core enterprise, the business provides bathroom furnishings, fixtures and shower enclosures for residential, industrial and institutional buildings. Its products are sold under its robust worldwide manufacturers Ideal Standard, Jado and American Commonplace (Asia/Pacific and Incesa), as well as main local manufacturers including Incesa Normal (Incesa), Armitage Shanks and Sottini (UK), Ceramica Dolomite (Italy), Porcher (France and Incesa) and Vidima (Jap Europe). The business employs over 17,000 folks and is working in over 30 countries.

Max Rennie – MyTub Bathrooms – Ideal Standard

Ceraplan water efficient faucet

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by Ideal Standard

This smooth and and stylish mixers within the Idyll. Two range are the proper complement to tender and rounded basin shapes and feature the newest CLICK water saving technology.

Single lever basin mixer
CLICK cartridge technology
Ceramic Disc technology
Fitted with a flow regulator at 5 litres per min

Potential saving:
29 litres daily*
*Primarily based on a comparability with an normal
mixer tap.

Faucets could be very annoying. If they do not drip, they trickle or gush. How many instances have you turned on a faucet only to seek out yourself, and the ground, drenched in a spray of water – wasteful and moist! Taps could be inexcusably water-guzzling. The average basin faucet can use over eight litres of water a minute and in a family where the faucet is left on for tooth brushing and shaving, this will amount to vast quantities.

CLICK cartridge technology
Water economy and ergonomic design meet in taps with CLICK technology. A single lever delivers hot and cold within the run of the mill way, but as you regulate the flow using an up and down movement you meet a delicate resistance point that allows you to select a extra average 50% flow. Simple and effective, by selecting the CLICK setting you’ll be able to enjoy a gentler stream and obtain 50% water saving. Good! And if you would like a stronger flow, simply push the lever up past the resistance point. CLICK technology is a great answer: it serves your needs and minimises waste. If only every little thing had been as simple!

Ceramic disc cartridges
Imagine you’ve a dripping tap. Both you’ll be able to change the washer – a boring job at the perfect of occasions – or you may’t, which suggests a plumber call-out or else just residing with the ensuing limescale and irritation. Every drip is pure, fresh water down the plug-hole, and if a faucet wastes a litre of water an hour, that’s the equivalent, in bottled water, of 4320 two litre bottles a year. Staggering! And but the answer is easy: a faucet with a ceramic disc cartridge won’t be vulnerable to drip, and can control the water move with absolute precision. Once once more, utility meets economic system on this good water saving device.

Flow regulators
Where there’s high strain, a tap can ship a wasteful and uncomfortably laborious flow. For lathering and rinsing a softer stream is extra comfy and practical. For example, a mixer tap flow regulator delivers a maximum of 6 litres of water as much as a pressure of three bar. Green and unseen, it ensures most water economy every time the faucet is used.

TIP:
Drip! Drip! Drip! Time to fix that faucet! It could not seem like a lot however a dripping faucet can waste ninety litres of water a week, which is 4690 litres of water wasted every year* – and might drive you mad while in the process. Better nonetheless, install a tap with ceramic disc technology, way more more likely to be drip-free. *Bathroom Manufacturers Association

An excellent soak
Most individuals like to have a very good soak – it’s one among life’s nice pleasures – however how many occasions have you run a stunning deep bath, solely to get in and cascade water everywhere in the floor. A bath need only be 2/3 full to be fully full once you’re in it!

Low-capacity baths
Most baths will hold between 175 and 200 litres of water to the overflow. With Ideal Standard’s distinctive water saving Sandringham and Alto baths the volume is 149 litres, attaining a major water saving of 15-28%. This is particularly helpful in busy families, where numerous baths can imply huge water usage.

Showering
On run of the mill showering makes use of 30% less water than bathing, though some showers may be more wasteful, delivering anything from 10 to greater than 30 litres per minute. Since it’s attainable to have a wonderfully invigorating shower with a maximum of 9 litres of water, you may consider putting in a shower regulator that fits between the shower valve and the shower hose set. With this regulator a typical 7-minute shower can save between 40 and eighty litres of water compared to having a bath. (Notice that you need a minimum stress of 0.3 bar to realize 9 litres per minute.) Alternatively, a useful Eco-button on your shower can be used to cut back or improve the water movement in line with need.

Shower baths
Shower baths will let you set up a shower in addition to a bath the place area is limited. They’re significantly wider at one finish – 90cm instead of the standard bath width of 70cm – allowing a comfortable standing shower with lots of elbow room. With a dedicated hinged glass shower display screen, they offer all the luxury of a stand-alone shower however more versatile bathing choices: you’ll be able to have a daily water saving shower and save the bath for a weekly treat.

Efficient shower valve
by Trevi
Trevi Link is a trendy exposed shower valve combining nice design with the most recent security features. It additionally provides a handy Eco button to manage the energy of water flow. Trevi Link shower valve (excessive strain) Eco capacity control for water conservation Fitted with a flow regulator at 9 litres per min Moonshadow customary connection high stress shower package Potential saving per person: 15 litres every day.

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