In association with the City of Moonee Valley, major sponsor Timber Windows will be supporting and contributing to an educational day at Afton Street Wetland on the banks of the Maribyrnong River in Moonee Valley. The event is on between 10am and 1pm and plays host to four local schools who will be taking part in [...]
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Timber windows and doors for Mt Macedon home
Timber windows and doors for Mt Macedon home installed. Recently we photographed a home being built in the small township of Mount Macedon, just west out of Melbourne. The property lies at the base of a mountain peak, famous in the area and known too as Mount Macedon. The area has a number of historical grand [...]
Timber as the preferred material choice
Timber windows and doors have been used effectively in Australian building since the first colonial building and now sustainable design is changing perceptions of acceptable window and door performance. Timber units are now being recognised as the superior solution. Driven by concerns over climate change and prompted by increasing government regulation, building design professionals are seeking [...]
Tilt and Turn Timber Windows
Timba Windows now supplies the efficient Tilt and Turn window system. We are working closely with leading trade distributor Lincoln Sentry who are, amongst other things, the sole importers of Gu Tilt&Turn hardware. Tilt and Turn windows can be custom made for any size space with an action that opens inwards and is operated with only one [...]
Windows, doors and door frames for RMIT University Swanston Academic Building
The Swanston Academic Building (SAB) is RMIT’s biggest investment in a teaching and learning facility to date and the largest construction project that RMIT has ever undertaken. Designed by Lyons Architects the building will cover a Gross Floor Area (GFA) of 35,000 square metres, will be 11 storeys and will form a significant part of RMIT [...]
Carbon pollution and Wood as a building material
Going to air under the new Planet Ark Environmental Edge brand, a new television commercial highlights the fact that wood stores carbon and that this is an environmental positive. Australia’s native forests, timber plantations and wood products are net absorbers of greenhouse gases, sequestering 56.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2005, reducing Australia’s total [...]
Wood – a low carbon footprint solution
New thinking on wood. Purchasing and manufacturing products that incorporate wooden components can greatly reduce the overall embedded carbon footprint of those goods and the buildings into which they are employed.
Air seals for sliding and bi-fold timber doors
Air seal gaps in exterior timber sliding and bi-fold doors can be problematic, especially older type hardware systems that may be wearing. There can be a number of issues that cause air leaks, the most common being a gap between the end that should overlap the inside edge when shut. Warping of older hardwood over time [...]
Custom reproduction double hung sash windows in American Ash
We produce many reproduction windows and doors and one of our jobs in production is a 90 year old set of double hung sash windows for a single fronted terrace house in Moonee Ponds that was built around 1920. Age has wearied these windows and they are beyond repair but the owners were keen to [...]
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