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New Charter Housing
New Charter Housing Trust is one of the UK’s
premier Social Landlords and is responsible for a
stock of over 18000 homes in the Manchester and
Cheshire areas. To maintain such a larg stock of
homes requires the use of reliable, durable
materials and the rooftops are no exception to this
rule. For New Charter Housing, the specification of
an apparently ‘niche’ product on a special
requirement project lead to the discovery of a roof tile with an abundance of
benefits that would soon be applied to many New Charter Housing Trust
Projects.
The Housing Trust’s first encounter with Metrotile Lightweightm Steel Roof
Systems was during a refurbishment project at Pendle House, Denton. A home
for the elderly, the building needed a new roof but couldn’t accommodate
traditional products due to large spans between
the trusses and the need for reduced weight on the
supporting structure. Metrotile was chosen due to
the lightweight and eight-pan profile design. It was
after this project that the many benefits of Metrotile
Lightweight Steel Roofing became apparent to
New Charter Housing Trust and more projects
swiftly followed;
“We were able to install large areas of roof quickly
thanks to the light weight nature of the material. The
finished rooftops looked like a traditional tiled roof and
completely transformed the area”
Paul Hadfield, Senior Quantity Surveyor and Project
Manager,
New Charter Housing Bushyfield in Hyde is an estate
that consists of prefab BISF homes. Due to the nature of BISF building
structures, a lightweight roofing material was required and once again New
Charter Housing Trust chose Metrotile, reinvigorating the BISF rooftops with a
modern material that doesn’t inflict unnecessary strain on the structure and
foundations of the homes.
“We had particular structures that required a light weight solution which also had
the benefit of giving the appearance of a traditional tile. Your system proved ideal
for the light weight structures of the BISF homes on the Bushyfield Estate in
Hyde”
Paul Hadfield
New Charter Housing Trust’s confidence in Metrotile Lightweight Steel Roofing is
reflected in the application of Metrotile to their area office in Wellington Parade
and we
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