Frame materials
Green Building Store is committed to the use of carefully-sourced timber as a durable and sustainable material for its windows and doors. For specifications requiring very low maintenance, we offer two window ranges with external composite products. The Ecoclad range has powder-coated aluminium cladding.and ENERsign has a fibreglass exterior.
Timber
FSC certification
In 2004 the Ecoplus range pioneered the use of FSC Pure timber in UK
window manufacturing and is still probably one of only a handful of UK
window ranges to use FSC Pure timber. FSC is the only timber
certification scheme endorsed by all major environmental
NGOs such as Greenpeace, FOE and WWF. There are several levels of FSC
Certification. FSC Pure means that all timber
used is certified. Other grades include FSC Mixed, in which some
material is
FSC and some from 'controlled' (ie legally logged) sources and FSC
Recycled. For a company to offer an FSC certified product, they must have been through a
rigorous auditing process to ensure 'chain of custody' of the timber used from
forest to product.
Green Building Store FSC Chain of Custody number: SA - COC - 1435.
Our window and door range options
FSC Pure redwood
FSC Pure oak
Timber & aluminium composite
Ecoclad (FSC Pure redwood timber)
Timber & fibreglass composite
ENERsign (redwood, larch or oak timber)