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 [...]
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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 [...]
Timber Windows and Doors manufactured out of Araucanio Hoop Pine Finger Jointed
Description: The CERES Van Raay Centre is the new green building complex located at the entrance of the site on the corner of Roberts and Stewart Street, Brunswick East. The centre showcases the best building practice in environmentally sustainable building design and construction. It was designed for the use of organisations who need facilities and [...]
Timber custom designed sliding windows and bifold door unit.
Description: The project began with the client’s request of a custom design sliding hardwood timber window to compliment the families’ new kitchen renovation. The design brief was to enhance the full view of the new and improved kitchen from the pergola to the outside entertainment area. One request the client asked was that the timber [...]
Thermally modified timber for doors and windows
Timba windows supplies solid timber windows and doors in kiln dried hardwood, cedar and now thermally treated Cambia timber. Low moisture content stable material perfect where resistance to rotting warping and splitting is required.
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