Made in England
What has Grimsby, Nottingham, Birmingham and Walsall all got in common ? Answer – They’re all home to the wonderful foundries that make our amazing castings and air bricks. Lets take a look at some of the creators at work …
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New Foundries
The May shutdown gave us time to repair patterns, reacquaint ourselves with existing foundries and discover new ones. Even though all our castings are UK made, that still requires a fair bit of travelling as we have foundries stretching all the way from Edinburgh to Bristol. Here are some of the new ones we’ve discovered […]
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Fascinating facts about Coal Hole Covers
Coal Covers ? Can they really be fascinating ? Well Jeremy Corbyn thinks so, let’s see why … 1. Coal hole covers are predominantly round – That’s to ensure, when the coal was delivered, the merchant couldn’t drop the cover down the hole (a square or rectangular cover can fall through) 2. Often, the […]
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Maintaining high quality products by commissioning British Foundries
We are proud to announce our latest foundry is UK based J and J Siddons of West Bromwich, near Birmingham, England. J and J Siddons is now our sixth foundry from the UK to make our products. We are proud we’ve been casting 100% British products for over 10 years. British foundries ensure workers receive […]
Read MoreA bright future for British iron foundries
In June 2018 we paid a visit to some of the foundries that cast our products and also took a look at some new foundries for future product development. It was an excellent visit and very exciting seeing all the workings of the foundries and we were made most welcome. If it wasn’t so early in […]
Read MoreUpgrading Old & New Channel Gratings
Channel gratings, “Aco” drains, pavement drains, trench drains and French drains, whatever you know them as they’re the sort of long narrow drains you often see along the pavement or below door thresholds on footpaths or household patios. Aco drain overhaul and new installations with cast iron grilles can be fraught with difficulty because matching the channel with […]
Read MoreEfficient Drainage ?
You would think that drain grilles would be capable of draining water away, wouldn’t you? Well unfortunately no, as these modern narrow slit grilles show. This is an all to common problem with modern channel gratings and one of the reasons we developed the cast iron Quatrefoil channel grille system. The modern grilles shown in […]
Read MoreNew Channel Grating
After years of research and hundreds of requests from architects and period property developers, we’re delighted to introduce our latest innovation – an elegant and simply stunning cast iron channel grille combined with a modern interlocking channel system. The Quatrefoil linear drainage channel, also known as channel gratings or French drainage channels are specifically suitable […]
Read MorePrototype Quatrefoil Channel Gratings
Our varied selection of 3 feet long gratings have always been a favourite for those wanting to replace ugly plastic and pressed tin grilles on top of channel gratings (also known as Ako drains) , with decorative cast iron grilles Unfortunately, at 3 feet long, our grilles are not a perfect fit for sitting on top of the metric, 1000mm […]
Read MoreMade to Measure
We have been making square hole gratings in a wide range of sizes for many years. It’s been a bespoke service and we have measured grilles for customers as and when they enquire and worked out the free area in mm2 that can be achieved for ventilation. While it started out with us making the occasional grille, it’s […]
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