http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog A roof insulation surveyor's diary Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:18:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems that the malevolent minority have been hard at it defacing Joomla based websites. We were attacked. Please see this page which replaced the home page for Rooftherm briefly for less than a 1 minute until security measures built in turned it off and restored the real home page. ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=31 I was reminded yesterday by a very clever commercial customer that investing in roof insulation in an industrial building is a no brainer decision. It literally costs the company concerned nothing! Apparently interest free loans repayable over 4 years can be arranged to cover the full cost of installing polyurethane spray ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=30 After a bit of an absence I am back. How I have missed polyurethane foam! Something passed across my desk yesterday by way of a customer email in the form of “have you seen this web site”. It never ceases to amaze me the rubbish that gets printed on the internet. ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=28 It was interesting that we had a service call today from a customer that we renovated a roof for and applied roof insulation with polyurethane spray foam about 6 months ago. At the time we explained to the customer that unless he was prepared to drop ceilings then we would be ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=27 As a keen gardener I have been waiting for the weather to warm up a bit so that I can get on and start the garden for summer 2006. Well, okay, the weather is still freezing for this time of year, cold, wet, windy and miserable. A perfect recipe for ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=29 I was alerted to a “competitor” web site by a customer yesterday. This web site, leaving aside the very poor grammar, claimed to be BBA accredited and even shows a picture of a van proudly displaying the BBA logo on their home page. They even claim “BBA 25 year approved ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=26 It seems our articles are upsetting some of our competitive neighbours. We received out of the blue an email yesterday from a distributor marketing Dow Chemical’s Froth Pak system. This email threatens legal action against us for mentioning the fact that Dow Chemical’s Froth Pak polyurethane spray kit are not ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=25 There has been a bit of interest recently within Rooftherm about aluminium foil insulation. This is a composite product that is about 25 to 30 mm thick and comes in 1 metre or so wide rolls. The foil is basically a sandwich of fibre insulation materials and aluminium foil. The ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=24 I had a short winter break with the family last week. Holiday for them, part holiday, part business for me. Whilst in Cyprus, which was surprisingly cold given its Mediterranean location, I wore a jacket most days. What was particularly interesting was that all new housing developments had moved quite positively ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=23 Rooftherm had an interesting problem and project this week. A developer had built flats and had used steel powered coated sheets for the roof covering, a sort of box profile sheet. The development was in the wind down phase and the new owners had taken residence. The developer had been ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=22 I read this on a popular website why insulation is installed. These, apparently, are the reasons: • to comply with Building Regulations or Standards • to reduce heat loss • to reduce running costs • to control temperatures • to reduce the risk of freezing • to provide condensation control • to reduce heating plant capacity These all sound like corporate objectives to me, did ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=21 I saw an advertisement the other day by one of our competitors. They were advertising a free Velux roof window installed with every polyurethane spray foam order. Another idea copied from us? We have been offering a free Velux installed with every roof order for the past 2 months. The ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=20 An interesting morning dealing with quite a number of new customer enquiries. One customer told me he was placing his order with us on the basis that not only did we provide a prompt and competitive quote but because we never once engaged in rubbishing our competition. He had contacted 5 ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=19 It seems this is the season when condensation rules. We have received a record number of enquiries this winter from customers plagued with condensation problems. A developer in Romford had built new apartment units in the autumn and had followed the architect’s designs throughout. The roof called for powder coated ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=18 A customer called me today to point out a web advertisement going out under Google Adwords. These are the adverts you see as “sponsored links”, code for Google has been paid to display these adverts by the company concerned in the search results. Google get paid every time someone clicks ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=17 I don’t know about anyone else but I imagine they have the same problem I have. I get bad “good” results when I do an internet search using Google. I’ll explain what I mean. Whenever I do a Google search I get interesting web sites come up that look to have ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=16 I received a call yesterday from a very nice chap named Jeff. You know how you can instantly take to some one who is pleasant, decent and honest. Anyway, Jeff had had polyurethane foam roof insulation installed in his terraced property and had the work done by one of the ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=15 John Prescott has been busy. Finding himself something to do after his failed transport polices he has come up with: “The current home buying and selling process is slow, wasteful, stressful and causes far too much delay and failure. Home information packs are due to be introduced throughout England and ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=14 Back to work with a bang this week. A lot of technical enquiries and unusual applications for spray foam polyurethane. One enquiry was about an extension to house in the planning phase where the roof was going to double up as a roof terrace, slabbed over and used as the patio ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=12 Today, 2nd January 2006, is a Bank Holiday due to the fact New Year’s Day fell on a Sunday. Well, ever keen to promote excellent customer service at Rooftherm, we have paid a staff member (me!) to come in to ensure our telephone lines are manned even though we do not ... http://www.rooftherm.co.uk/blog/?p=11