Caring for aluminium near the sea
Salt air and the south-easter are hard on windows and doors. How to look after aluminium and glass on the Cape Town coast: finishes, fixings, rinsing, tracks.
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Projects and guides
Guides, plus example posts showing how job write-ups will look. Real installed jobs will appear here.
U-values and double glazing, explained
For Cape Town homes: what a U-value measures, why lower is better, how single and double-glazed aluminium compare, and where SANS 10400-XA comes into it.
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Replacing steel or wooden windows with aluminium
A Cape Town guide to remove-and-fit: replacing old steel or wooden windows with aluminium, from measuring to fitting the new frames and patching plaster.
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Example post — stacking doors for a braai room
Example post, not a real job: how an EcoTuff project write-up will look, using stacking aluminium doors onto a braai room as the pattern for Cape Town posts.
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Example post — steel windows replaced with aluminium sliders
Example post, not a real job: how an EcoTuff job write-up will look, using a steel-to-aluminium window replacement in Cape Town as the pattern for real posts.
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