With the rapid advancement in PVC-u technology, you would often now be hard pressed to tell the difference between PVC-u products and their timber equivalents.
This provides you with a multitude of finish options. You may find for example that choosing a Rosewood or Oak woodgrain finish will help to blend more sympathetically with your home and garden.
Colours such as Black, Grey, and Cream are also increasingly being used to great effect as well as an array of bespoke coloured woodgrain colours. And remember, unlike their timber equivalents, they will not need painting, and they will be guaranteed for years to come.
An initial choice you will want to make is whether to have bevelled or ovolo shaped profile. Bevelled profile offers contemporary clean lines whilst ovolo profile offers a more detailed, sculptured finish.
This choice can often be influenced simply by your individual preference but may also be influenced by the style of your property.
OVOLO PROFILE
BEVELLED PROFILE
In order to meet the governments thermal performance targets and current Building Regulations, all replacement PVC-u windows are to achieve a U-value not exceeding 1.6 (W/m2.K), therefore certified to Energy Rating ‘C’ or better.
Ultimate Windows achieve an A+ Energy Rating with an Energy Index of 10 and a U-value of 1.4 (W/m2.K).
Maximise the opening
The owners of this property wanted to maximise the size of the opening of the kitchen window.
The solution was a cottage style window complete with a floating mullion (shown right).
The floating mullion is purposed designed to house the locking system so a central fixed vertical mullion is not needed between the two opening sashes.
When the windows are fully open, you get the maximum benefit and when the windows are closed, the floating mullion gives the appearance of a fixed frame between the two opening sashes.
The Ultimate window has been refined and designed to protect you and your home and provide you with total reassurance and peace of mind.
The locking technology at the heart of every casement window incorporates 10 security features (subject to casement size).
A total of 10 security points, in all four directions
- 2 x steel shoot bolts
- 4 x central collared cams
- 2 x high security hinges
- 2 x 15mm anti-jemmy hinge bolts
Steel Shoot Bolts
Collared Cams
High Security Hinges
15mm Anti-jemmy Hinge Bolts
The very latest security features have been engineered to fit all styles of Ultimate Heritage Windows, to ensure your safety and security is never compromised.
With the simple turn of a handle, every window is secured by a multi-point locking system, securing points on all four sides of the opening sash, giving you complete reassurance and peace of mind.
For your safety, easy clean/fire escape hinges are fitted as standard to all side-opening windows. These will open fully to give you an alternative means of fire escape (dependent on window size) and can slide towards the centre to allow easy external cleaning.
Turn the slot-bolts located on the top and bottom hinges 90o and simply slide the window across for easy external cleaning. The window will automatically realign upon closing.
The unique dual purpose key can be used to lock your window handle and to operate the hinge slot-bolts as shown right.
Colour and finish options
Options now extend far beyond the traditional white window. The Ultimate Collection offers you so much choice in terms of style and finish that you should never need to compromise.
The below swatches are for your guidance only, please ask to see physical samples for a true representation.
If you would like a colour that is not within our range of woodgrain foils, we can arrange to have your windows or doors spray painted in the colour of your choice.
You can choose to have the colour applied to both the inside and outside faces, or outside only leaving a fresh white internal finish.
Bevelled Profile Finish Options
Smooth White
Smooth White
Light Grey w/grain
Smooth White
Dark Grey w/grain
Smooth White
Rosewood
Rosewood
Rosewood
Smooth White
Cherrywood
Cherrywood
Cherrywood
Smooth White
Ovolo Profile Finish Options
Smooth White
Smooth White
White w/grain
White w/grain
Rosewood
Rosewood
Rosewood
Smooth White
Cherrywood
Cherrywood
Cherrywood
Smooth White
Irish Oak
Irish Oak
Ice Cream w/grain
Ice Cream w/grain
Ice Cream w/grain
Smooth White
Dark Grey w/grain
Smooth White
Dark Grey w/grain
Dark Grey w/grain
Chartwell Green w/grain
Smooth White
Black w/grain
Smooth White
Handle options – Click dots to see all options
You may decide to have decorative Georgian Bars applied to your windows for the truly authentic Georgian style.
The unique Ali-lock Georgian Bar is a scribed PVC-u bar, finished and colour matched to the exact same finish of your chosen windows.
The bars are connected to full length aluminium fixing strips that are bonded to the glass unit. This, combined with the spacer bar grid design inside the unit, gives the impression that each pane is a separate unit.
In order to cater for the diverse mix of property styles and consumer preferences, windows and doors are now available in a wide variety of styles and finishes.
Using a combination of top openers, side openers and fixed panes, the range of styles is immense so you are sure to find a design to suit your home.
Similarly, there is no reason to compromise when replacing bay windows. Not all bay windows are the same, some require load bearing support. The Ultimate Collection offers load bearing support components to suit both 90o bay windows and multifaceted bays. Using our versatile bay posts, a variety of combinations can be assembled to achieve the correct angles.
As part of the Governments overall initiative to reduce the levels of carbon dioxide emissions, they have put controls in place to reduce the energy lost from domestic dwellings.
Window heat loss can account for a substantial proportion of the total heat loss from your home. Therefore replacement windows are now energy rated which will help to reduce harmful CO2 emissions and help cut the cost of heating bills.
Ultimate window profiles along with the glass sealed unit specification are fed into a computerised simulation test to measure:
SOLAR HEAT GAIN | THERMAL LOSSES | AIR LOSSES
Based on the results, windows are then rated from A-G with A-Rating being the most thermally efficient.
In order to meet the governments thermal performance targets and current Building Regulations, all replacement PVC-u windows are to achieve a U-value not exceeding 1.6 (W/m2.K), therefore certified to Energy Rating ‘C’ or better.
Ultimate Windows achieve an A+ Energy Rating with an Energy Index of 10 and a U-value of 1.4 (W/m2.K).
Reduce home heat loss and save money with Ultimate Energy Efficient Windows.
