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Aluminium Bifold Doors
Designed to complement any style of property our range of bespoke aluminium bi-folding doors will completely transform the look of your home.
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Structural Glazing in Manchester
Architectural glazing for Greater Manchester — frameless glass box extensions, glass links, and bespoke steel windows and doors in the Crittall style. Designed, fabricated in our own workshop and installed by our own teams, from Didsbury and Chorlton through to Altrincham, Hale, Salford and Stockport.
Glazing Built for Manchester's Housing Stock
Manchester is a red-brick city, and that shapes what works. Victorian and Edwardian villas through Didsbury, West Didsbury, Chorlton and Whalley Range; large detached houses in Hale, Bowdon and Altrincham; terraced streets across Salford, Levenshulme and Prestwich; and mill and warehouse conversions in Ancoats, Castlefield and New Islington.
Two things suit that stock particularly well. Slim-sightline steel windows and doors sit naturally against Victorian brick and industrial conversions — which is why Crittall-style glazing has become so popular here. And frameless glass box extensions solve the classic Manchester terrace problem: a long, narrow, dark rear return that a conventional brick extension only makes darker.
We are around forty minutes away in Liverpool, with our own workshop and our own fitters. Nothing is subcontracted, and the people who fabricate your glazing are the people who install it.
Why Manchester homeowners and architects work with us
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Steel windows and doors installed in Eccles, Salford and Prestwich
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Over 45 years designing and fitting bespoke glazing
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Crittall-style steel glazing suited to Victorian brick and conversions
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Our own workshop and installation teams — no subcontractors
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Experienced across Greater Manchester's ten planning authorities
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Glass from Guardian, Pilkington and Saint-Gobain
What We Design and Install
Every project is made to measure. These are the systems we are asked for most often across Greater Manchester:
Our glazing systems
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Panoramic Sliding Doors
The minimal frame utilised in this range has a mere 20mm interlock between sashes, allowing virtually uncluttered views from within the property.
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Cortizo Sliding Doors - Cor Vison -
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Glass Box Extensions
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Internal Steel Screens
Steel screens & doors can create a contemporary or authentic historic style. Your steel windows can be as bespoke as your property.
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Aluminium Windows
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Our Work Across Greater Manchester
At Eccles in Salford we designed, made and installed a full set of bespoke steel windows and doors — slim sightlines, crisp black frames, and the kind of proportions that only work when the sections are made for the opening rather than cut down to fit it. We have also completed steel doors at Prestwich, and a bespoke structural glass entrance at Marple on the Stockport and Cheshire border.
Steel and glass do very different jobs here. Steel is usually about restoring or sharpening the character of a period property or a conversion. Structural glass is usually about light — pulling daylight deep into a Victorian plan that was never designed to have any.
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Steel Look Alike Doors
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Project Overview — Custom Cortizo Doors & Balustrade, Lancashire
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Lower Hud Farm
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Glass Link & Office
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Glulam Frame Glass Box Extension
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Glass Link
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Areas We Cover Across Greater Manchester
We work across all ten boroughs, including:
- Didsbury, West Didsbury, Chorlton, Whalley Range and Victoria Park
- Altrincham, Hale, Hale Barns, Bowdon and Sale
- Salford, Eccles, Worsley, Monton and Swinton
- Stockport, Heaton Moor, Heaton Mersey, Bramhall and Marple
- Prestwich, Whitefield, Bury, Bolton and Rochdale
- City centre conversions in Ancoats, Castlefield and New Islington
Planning and Conservation Areas in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is ten separate planning authorities, not one. Manchester City Council, Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Bury, Bolton, Tameside, Oldham, Rochdale and Wigan each set their own local policies, and the answer you get in Didsbury is not necessarily the answer you get a couple of miles away in Sale.
Conservation areas are dense across exactly the suburbs where this work happens — Didsbury Village, Fielden Park, Victoria Park, Chorlton and Whalley Range in Manchester; Bowdon, Hale and Altrincham in Trafford; Heaton Moor, Heaton Mersey and Marple in Stockport; Prestwich in Bury; and Ancoats and Castlefield in the city centre. Inside these, permitted development rights are usually restricted and full planning permission is normally required.
The good news is that conservation officers are frequently more receptive to a clearly modern, lightweight glass addition than to a brick extension imitating the original, because the new work reads as obviously new and is reversible. Slim steel glazing tends to be welcomed for the opposite reason: on a Victorian or industrial building it often restores the proportions that were there originally.
What Affects the Cost?
Every project is priced individually, but the things that move the number most are consistent:
- Pane size. Cost per square metre rises sharply once panels exceed what two people can lift, because you are then into crane hire and traffic management.
- Steel versus aluminium. True steel sections give the slimmest sightlines and the most authentic look, but cost more than steel-look aluminium. Both have their place.
- Glass specification. Solar control coatings, triple glazing and acoustic laminates all add cost. Acoustic glass earns its keep on a city-centre conversion.
- Structure below the glass. Steels, foundations and groundworks are frequently a bigger share of the budget than the glazing itself.
- Access. A Victorian terrace with no rear access is a materially different job to a detached house in Hale with a driveway.
Send us your drawings, or even a photo of the back of the house, and we will give you a realistic budget range before you spend anything.
Structural Glazing in Manchester — Common Questions
Yes. We design, fabricate and install bespoke steel windows, doors and internal screens with slim sightlines, and we recently completed a full set in Eccles, Salford. We also offer steel-look aluminium where the budget or the thermal specification suits it better, and we will tell you honestly which is right for your property.
Start Your Manchester Glazing Project
Whether it is Crittall-style steel doors for a Victorian villa in Didsbury, a glass box extension on a Chorlton terrace, or internal steel screens in an Ancoats conversion, we would like to see it. Call us on 0151 523 3131, or send over your plans and we will come back with honest advice and a realistic budget.