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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 increased by four times.  Profix has recently enjoyed its own Facebook video success!  Just before Christmas, we posted a short video of our Swing and Slide doors in action and the engagement has been terrific, with over 282,000 views, 90 shares, 306 comments and 488 likes, our video has reached nearly 500,000 people.

The product speaks for itself

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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 17^th Century windows were predominately oak or left unpainted, whereas skipping forward to the 19^th Century windows were always painted.  Staining was not a traditional finish.  Many of the colours available were made with natural, earth and mineral pigments, as well as black, which was made from burning wood or oil.  Moving forward through the ages, choices became more exotic as chemists were able to make a wider range of colours commercially available. When it comes to renovating a period property, or replicating a more traditional style, the Profix R9.

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 makes us the one-stop-shop for both housing stock refurbishments and new build specifiers, and with the promise of more money to provide more homes, this is set to continue through 2018. Working with homeowners directly, we’ve upgraded a lot of conservatories this year.  The addition of a solid roof can transform a part-time sunroom into much needed additional

Described as ‘make or break’ for the chancellor, the autumn budget included some positive announcements for the housing industry. Touching on key issues surrounding the housing crisis, it indicated there was quite a lot for the industry to get excited about. There’s been a lot of post-budget discussion, and as a whole it’s fair to say we are left feeling ‘positively optimistic’. This is also backed up by the NHBC’s announcement that builders registered nearly 38,000 new homes across the UK in Q3 this year – the highest Q3 since the recession, according to their statistics and a 6% increase on the same period last year. Interestingly, most of this growth is driven by the private.

Colour trends for windows vary to those of doors. Not massively, but there are different considerations. For example, more people choose black for their front door, than they do for their window profile! Anthracite Grey and Chartwell Green have been popular colours for windows (and doors) for some time and look set to continue to be. Grey is particularly popular as consumers try to emulate the sleek, cool look of aluminium, without compromising on the cost or thermal efficiency benefits they get from PVC-U. Of course, it depends on the property too, as to which colours come out on top. Owners of character properties are often the ones to opt for more pastel or natural.