Monthly Archives: April 2010
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What are you all doing on here?
We have been looking at the stats for this site and though I should share some of the info with you.
We are getting on average 175 visitors per day, since the site started on the 3rd of March. Our biggest day was the launch day with 309 visitors.
- March 3rd – 309
- March 8th – 282
- April 26th – 232
- April 20th – 220
- March 31st – 214 (There are actually 5 dates with this number of visitors)
We have noticed that weekends are rubbish for visitors with an average 85 per day. I think that’s a bit strange, as I seem to work 7 days a wee
Over 58,000 page views since we launched, but the biggest are:
- The Wall - 26,798
- Blog – 2194 (including links from the wall)
- Bookings – 1870
- All Members – 1279
- Attendees list – 798 (People seeing who is
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The wait is over: Approved Documents L and F are published
The Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF) is extremely pleased to note from the final Approved Document L (Conservation of Fuel and Power) and Approved Document F (Ventilation) for England and Wales, announced on 30 April 2010, that the Communities and Local Government (CLG) have listened to the representations of the Federation and the industry.
The principal changes announced were as follows:
- For replacement windows, compliance to be based on Window Energy Rating Band C (currently Band E) with an alternative of a U Value of not worse than 1.6 W/m2K (currently 2.0). The centre pane alternative of 1.2 remains but for a limited range of applications only.
- Conservatories: The current exemption clause remains
- The potentially burdensome requirement of ‘Consequential Improvements’ has been excluded.
- A proposal for trickle vents to be fitted to all replacement windows has been dropped (under strong pressure from the GGF).
- For WERs it is
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