Nexfor will break new ground at this year’s Ideal Home Show which opens on March 7 when it unveils its revolutionary Addspace timber frame kits.
Manufactured from Nexfor’s Sterling OSB, the kits provide single storey room extensions designed for the domestic market – a market that erected 250,000 traditional block and brick extensions and 200,000 conservatories last year.
In 32 variations, the kit sizes range from 3m, 3.6m, 4.2m and 4.8m – both width and depth – and each has either a pitched or flat roof option. All are supplied with an individual design certificate – an insured guarantee of structural performance.
Manufactured under controlled factory conditions as recommended by the Egan Report, Addspace can be erected on a prepared concrete foundation in just six hours by two tradespeople.
No wall panels need to be cut on site and all roof trusses are delivered assembled as part of a low pitched roof system that can be constructed on the back of most houses.
Flexible window/patio door configurations made possible by the panel design complete the offer.
All kits are supplied with a complete set of planning/ installation drawings together with a video.
Maurice Fitzgibbon, Nexfor’s marketing and sales director, said the Addspace project was first considered ‘some years ago’.
He went on: ‘A number of market dynamics in the last 12 months convinced us that the time was right to play a major part in taking the considerable advantages of timber frame technology to the consumer householder via the UK’s thousands of small builders and builders merchants industry distribution.’
In addition to its stand at the Ideal Home Show (TTJ February 2), Nexfor is running a PR and marketing campaign to RIBA architects, housing associations, local authorities, small builders and consumers. Mr Fitzgibbon said TV advertising was a ‘real possibility’ in the future.
