http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:27:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New White or Brown powder coated steel side hung doors are now available on Compton garages.  These fully framed doors provide a 1.9m (6’2¾”) drive through height on standard buildings and 2.05m (6’8¾”) on high garages.     Door stays are available separately (as shown), these reduce the drive through height by 85mm ... http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles/new-side-hung-doors-for-garages-734.html Garador are now Compton’s new garage door supplier, detailed below are some reasons why the new range is better. Manufactured in the UK at a state of the art facility, our new garage doors are better than before and include the following features: ·          Single garage doors are 50mm thick and stronger ... http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles/garage-doors-729.html As well as consideration to what size garage you will need, you should also be thinking about what you wish to store in your garage and whether one of our higher garages may be what you need. For example take our Apex Spar garage range: The standard Apex Spar with an eaves height of ... http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles/standard-high-or-super-high-720.html The pros of automatic garage doors are obvious; you can open and close them remotely. You can open the door while sitting comfortably in your car, which is nice when the weather is bad, this will also be beneficial to the elderly who may have trouble operating the door.  Once inside ... http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles/automatic-garage-doors-716.html The roof of a concrete garage can transform the garage's appearance.  Three different roof pitches are available from the leading manufacturers.  A flat or pent roof is usually the most cost effective option and sees the industry leaders using vandal resistant, full length fromt to back galvanised steel sheets with no joins to leak.  These ... http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles/garage-roofs-make-a-difference-714.html Garages are now used as multi purpose buildings suitable for so many different things and used by so many different people.  This isn't surprising when you see the amount of choice available from concrete sectional garages. Prefabricated in nature, such garages are ideal for meeting multiple requirements as they can be configured in ... http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles/garages-to-suit-you-712.html Modern technology has been embraced by some concrete garage manufacturers who now offer a wider choice of shapes, sizes and styles than ever before all at affordable prices Brochures, leaflets and websites can only show the potential customer so much.  The true test of whether a new concrete garage design is ... http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles/concrete-garages-see-before-you-buy-709.html Concrete garages have come a long way and are now proven to be quality buildings accredited with the relevant BSI ISO 9001 approvals and coming complete with a 10 year guarantee.  But there's still one thing that is as important now as it was decades ago and that is the ... http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles/concrete-garages-quality-from-the-ground-upwards-707.html It was recently reported in The Sunday Times that North London is the area of the country with the highest risk of theft of motorcycles, with four times the national average of claims.  Several other London areas as well as Halifax, Manchester and Aberdeen also suffer from high rates of ... http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles/motorcycle-garages-solve-bike-theft-problem-703.html Sectional buildings have been making a come back over the last decade and have removed themselves from the prejudice that surrounded the term that was all too often associated with the prefab buildings that rapidly sprung up throughout the UK in the years following the second world war.  Since then ... http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/articles/sectional-buildings-701.html