FADIA Home&Design

This week on the popular TV program, ‘Grand Designs’ a beautiful house in Kent was featured. This house is near Staplehurst and is owned and built by architect Richard Hawkes and his lovely wife Sophie. The house itself does not rely on much. For example it doesn’t even need mains water or central heating. Instead the house is completely Eco friendly and does not use an ounce of unnecessary energy.

The environmentally-friendly house aims to blend into its surroundings and be self-sustaining. It was featured on a double bill on the popular Channel 4 program, ‘Grand Designs’ hosted by the legendary Kevin McCloud.

The house itself in Kent features completely economical and Eco friendly materials such as wood and even earth. The house boasts a truly stunning architectures, has over four guest bedroom for friends and family to stay over, and even has its own pool and spa treatment room. The design originally resembles an Anderson Shelter, the building eventually reveals a huge, Gaudy-Esquire vaulted ceiling. The whole thing is literally topped off with tons of soil and then grassed over to look almost like an ancient house of some sort. It is truly marvelous to look at and at the same time it is extremely bizarre.  The home is effectively a couple of timber-framed boxes resting under a huge, unsupported arch built from 26,000 handmade clay tiles. This is truly a magnificent achievement for both the architects and constructor’s as there is nothing else like this around. They have built something special and very interesting. Although the house is meant to be quite old fashioned, it consists of modern fixtures and fittings, including wireless interconnected speaker systems and even ergonomic hand care door handles.

If you have never watched Grand Design before I would highly recommend it. The program makes great viewing and you can see all sorts of bizarre houses that have sprouted up around the UK and abroad. There are some great projects on there and I would strongly recommend watching it one day.

For beauty gifts

There are some kind of door hardware need to be installed even in the floor for the floor hinges, in the glass door itself and also in the opening frame. The floor hinges and patch fitting act as pivot, they working together in order to open and close. It will be automatically closed when it being open not more than 80 degree or it will be stop ( opened ) at 90 degree.

This is the hardware code from Dorma product, you can find it in their website, also the information about glass template to fixed up the patch fitting.
There are the kind of hardware for the common used :

• Floor Hinges : BTS-75, BTS-80 + cover plate
• Patch Fitting : PT20, PT10, PT21, PT24, PT30, PT40, PT41 L/R
• Lockset : US10 + cylinder
• Pull Handle : variable

If you want to install the 10-12mm frame less glass, you have to determine first about the Opening. The Opening with Wood, Brick, Marble or met with another glass have a difference patch-fitting. As describe at the picture below :

Note :

• Wood/Marble Framed : PT21
• Alumunium Framed : PT24
• Glass at Above : PT30
• Glass at Side and Above : PT40
• Glass at Side and Above with Rib Glass : PT41R/L

The Rib Glass :
The meaning is the the same with it named as a rib, it usefull for fixed the high frameless curtain wall. If another patch fitting only have 2D (XY) form, it have 3D (XYZ) form.

A perfect kitchen requires a ventilation system which is just as perfect. Cooker hoods ensure an exchange of air directly above the hob. Odors resulting from cooking, baking and roasting are removed effectively and dirt and damage caused by moisture are avoided.

A top quality metal grease filter extracts the cooking vapors and filter the grease contains. The circulation air mode has additional charcoal filter for removing odors. The filters can be easily removed and than cleaned in the dishwasher.

The exceptional of the design wall hoods are not only beautiful to look at, they also provide a great deal of head space, making them ideal in use too.

The Various Types of Cooker Hoods

1. Island Hoods
2. Chimney Hoods are installed directly on the wall.
3. Built-under Hoods can either be installed under special, shortened top cabinets or be mounted on the wall with chimney
4. Built-in Telescopic Slimline Hoods disappear completely into the wall cabinet. The flat canopy is simply pulled out, thus enlarging the catchment area.
5. Built-in Canopy Hoods are fitted into hearths or chimneys, either individually or in groups. They are therefore an attractive alternative to designer cooker hoods.

During the recirculation mode the polluted air is extracted direct above the hob, lead through a filter system, cleaned and passed back into the kitchen again.

In the case of extraction mode with an integrated motor the cooking adours are simply led through conduit, pipes and wall boxes into an exhaust air chimney or to the outside.

In the case of extraction mode with an external motor even great distance can be bridged and the exhaust air is led outside by means of a powerful fan. And this is done even more quietly than with an internal motor.

• Determine application. Wardrobe, Cupboard, Cabinet, or Room Divider.

• Choose Sliding Doors ( single ) door or Folding Doors ( joined pair of door )

• Choose fixing Method. Face Fixed ( into side of wall ) or Soffit Fixed ( into lintel or wall cavity )

Sliding Doors can be : Face Fixed with single line of tracks which allows access to the full width of the opening, but you need wall space where the door(s) can park.
Soffit Fixed with 2 lines of track which allows doors to by-pass each other, giving a partial opening.
Soffit Fixed single line of track for cavity installations
Folding Doors are normally Soffit Fixed where-there is no wall space for the doors to slide to

• Measure width of opening and determine track length

Face Fixed = width of opening x 2 ( to allow for door parking space )
Soffit Fixed = width of opening
Soffit Fixed ( cavity sliding doors ) = width of opening x 2

• Choose the door and note material of door

• Measure width and thickness of each door

Face Fixed note that the total width of the doors should be slightly wider than opening to prevent any gaps.
Soffit Fixed note that the total width of all the doors must be exactly equal to the width of the opening to allow proper closing

• Indentify howmany doors you need

• Indentify the weight of each single door.

• Choose correct gear and kit numbers

• Fix your door.

Also fix a pelmet along the length of the track to cover the track and hangers to give a pleasing appearance to your slidding door

There are many types of keying systems. You can combine types to meet your specific requirements.

1. Change Key ( CK ) ; Each Individual lock has its own individual key, and there is no master key ( MK )
2. Keyed-Alike ( KA ) ; A system wherein a number of locks have the same cylinder construction ( key number ), and each individual key that operates one of the locks can operate all of the locks.
3. Master Keying ( MK ) ; A system where in several different looks are combined in one group, and one key ( the ‘master key’) can open all them.
4. Grandmaster-Keying ( GMK ) ; A system wherein one key ( the ‘grandmaster key’ ) can operated several different groups of master-keyed locks.
5. Great-Grandmaster-Keying ( GGMK ); A system wherein one key ( the ‘great-grandmaster key’ ) can operated several different groups of grand-master-keying system.
6. Common Keying System ( RMK ) ; Each key can individually open its own lock. However, it can also operated one or more other locks.
7. Multi-Master-Keying ( MMK ) ; A system wherein the master keys of several different groups of master-keying system and all the individual keys therein can operate the lock(s) of a designated location The master key and individual keys are called ‘multy-master-keying’ and the designated locks are called ‘multi-master keyed’.
8. Construction Keying System ( CNK ) ; After completing construction, the conractor gives a new key to the owner or his tenant. The new key nullifies the existing key and can operated lock without the need of replacing cylinders.