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Delivery Schedule Update

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Delivery Calendar

Our delivery/collection schedule operates on a week commencing basis, if you were to place an order today the following dates are the earliest your order would be available for delivery/collection.

Trussed rafter orders for delivery/collection on week commencing Monday 6th February and easi-joist orders for delivery/collection on week commencing Monday 6th February.

As always terms and conditions apply, the main one being that you have confirmed the sizes are correct (you can do this by using our online form here) and that your payment has cleared before an order can be manufactured and delivered. Payment can be made by one of the following methods:

  • Debit card (No surcharges) in person or over the phone (Delivery usually around 5 working days)
  • Mastercard Personal - Credit card (surcharge of up to 2.09% applies) in person or over the phone (Delivery usually around 5 working days)
  • Visa Personal - Credit card (surcharge of up to 2.09% applies) in person or over the phone (Delivery usually around 5 working days)
  • Mastercard/Visa Business - Credit card (surcharge of up to 2.09% applies) in person or over the phone (Delivery usually around 5 working days)
  • Cash in person (Delivery usually around 5 working days)
  • Cheque through the post or in person (Can take 5 working days to clear so delivery is usually around 10 working days)
  • Bank transfer (Can take 3 working days to clear so delivery is usually around 5 working days)

The reason we apply a surcharge to credit card transactions is to cover the cost of the commission charges that we have to pay to our credit card terminal provider for those payments made by credit card. For example if a trussed rafter roof package costs £5000.00 and the commision charge is 2.09% we would have to pay the terminal company £104.50, for that one job it may not sound like a lot but when we are supplying hundreds of roof & floor packages that total soon adds up. It is for that reason that we recommend using other payment methods for which Customers are not charged for making payment by such as bank transfer, cheque or debit card.

You can place an enquiry using one of the methods below:

Easi with Wolf Systems – the future is on the horizon with Wolf Systems

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Wolf Systems, stand S1554, Ecobuild, London Excel, 20 - 22 March 2012.

At this year’s Ecobuild, Wolf Systems will be launching ground-breaking new software. After eighteen months of development, and using the latest technology, the software delivers new opportunities for manufacturers involved in timber engineering construction.

The new software, which will be demonstrated on the stand throughout the show, utilises Autodesk’s Revit platform and, for the first time, opens up the possibilities of collaborative BIM working for timber frame manufacturers.

Wolf Systems will also be exhibiting the company’s easi-joist metal-web product. Originally developed to facilitate the installation of services through the floor zone, Wolf Systems’ easi-joist is now often found employed in place of solid timber studs in the walls to timber frame systems; as well as in both flat and pitched roofing construction.

Both specifiers and building contractors are making increasing use of the engineered timber joists offered by Wolf Systems’ manufacturers for a wide variety of applications throughout the building structure.

Such are the spanning and load-bearing benefits of the highly engineered easi-joists – underpinned by the flexible Wolf design software – they can be incorporated into a selection of situations at any angle between the horizontal and vertical. In turn, imposed live or dead loads are supported and optimum performance from minimum material usage is ensured. The easi-joist beam, stud or rafter member also allows the building designer to accommodate increased levels of insulation into the project with ease.

Karl Foster of Wolf Systems comments: “As a metal web beam, easi-joist not only provides ample open area within its overall depth for the routing of pipes, cables and even ductwork, the installer is also provided with a wide flange area. This simplifies the fixing of sheet flooring panels or roof decking and sarking; with the finished assembly offering an extremely solid feel.”

Individual beams are now regularly assembled into panel or cassette modules, furthering the offsite potential of easi-joists, while offering a close fit with industry priorities for sustainable, defect-free approaches to construction.

All Wolf Systems’ products – which range from nailplates for trussed rafters, easi-joist metal-webs for its metal-web joist systems through to its structural design and management software – are developed, manufactured and supported in the UK.

Building on the Isle of Man

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So your planning a new build or even renovating an existing property on the Isle of Man and want the best for your roof and/or floor, well we can help with that.  One of the services we provide is design and manufacturer of trussed rafters and easi-joist metal web floor joists on behalf of Builders Merchants. On the Isle of Man we provide this service to MFBP Building Supplies in Douglas and Island Timber & Building Materials Ltd in Ballasalla. (Contact details at bottom of this post)

So why not give them a call or pay them a visit with all the details about your project.  They will then contact us, we will produce a design, and when requested manufacture your roof or floor, we will then ship your order to the docks, were MFBP or Island Timber will then take over and deliver your order to site.

If you don't want to go through one of our partners on the Isle of Man you can of course place you enquiry directly with us and we can arrange for an outside haulier to collect your order from our factory and deliver it to your site on the Isle of Man.  Please note however that delivery costs to the Isle of Man are beyond our control and are set by the outside haulier.

One of the biggest projects on the Isle of Man that we have been involved with was for the Isle of Man Government in 2002, we designed and manufactured the roof's for the Southern Group Health Practice and the Ambulance Station both of which are located in Port Erin.  Combined the two buildings consisted of well over 1000 trussed rafters, as well as additional infill timbers and metal fixings.  The entire project took about 50 hours in total to manufacture, we broke it up into five phases which were manufactured and delivered over a period of a couple of weeks, mainly because the size of each delivery is restricted to allow it to fit on the ferry but also so that we could continue manufacturing for our other customers as well.

MFBP Building Supplies MFBP Building Supplies
Unit 5, Middle River Industrial Estate
Pulrose Road, Douglas
IM2 1AL
Telephone: 01624 671118
Fax: 01624 628747
Email: [email protected]

Island Timber & Building Materials Ltd Island Timber & Building Materials Ltd
Balthane Industrial Estate
Ballasalla
IM9 2AL
Telephone: 01624 877338

Xmas and New Year Opening Times

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We will be closing at midday today, Friday 16th December, and will re-open at 7.30am on Wednesday 4th January 2012. Weather permitting deliveries should restart towards the back-end of week commencing Monday 2nd January 2012.

If you wish to send us an enquiry during this time we would recommend using one of our online forms, email or the post as we cannot guarantee that we will receive all the faxes sent to us during the Christmas break. If you do send us an enquiry during this time please be patient if you don't hear from us on the Wednesday when we return to work, if there are a lot of enquiries it may take some time to work through them all.

easi-joist sizes and prices

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Today we have updated the easi-joist section of our website to combine most of the information onto just the main page, rather than having half a dozen, which should now make it easier to find the information you are looking for. To make room for all this information on just the one page we have introduced a new full width page template which has done away with the sidebar, which only contained our twitter feed anyway, so that's no great loss.

In the coming months Wolf System Ltd will be producing technical information regarding the use of easi-joist as a stud wall in timber frame construction, as soon as that is released I will add it to the easi-joist Walls section of the easi-joist page.

The one thing that everyone hopes to find is an easi-joist price list, unfortunately we are unable to produce one, that's because easi-joist is available in multiple lengths, widths, depths and internal web configurations, as well as with multiple end support conditions, so producing a list that is easy to read and understand is near impossible. It is for these reasons that we have put together an online easi-joist enquiry form, which will allow you to enter multiple joist lengths and quantities and once we have received it we will send you the quotation as soon as possible.

Google+ Profile Links

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On Friday Google released Google+ to Google Apps users which includes ourselves, we use Google Apps for our email, contacts, calendering, documents and numerous other Google Services. So on Friday we activated our Google profiles and Google+ so I then added links to those profiles to our existing About us page, you can also find them below.

pitched roof easi-joist – gable end

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pitched roof easi-joist - gable end
Originally uploaded by E & H Baxendale Ltd
On Tuesday we delivered a complete easi-joist pitched roof, today we visited the site to see how they were getting on with the installation. They have started by installing the pitched easi-joist roof joists for the smaller gable end while the finishing touches are made to the brickwork and steel beams of the main roof. We have uploaded the first couple of photos showing the smaller gable end to our flickr photostream.

easi-joist Pitched Roof Goes Into Production

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pitched-easi-joist-roof
Originally uploaded by E & H Baxendale Ltd
Today we started manufacturing around 70 easi-joist pitched roof joists which are being used to create the roof structure over a single storey extension out the back of an existing property. The joists are designed for a 22.5 degree roof pitch to carry slate and a number of solar panels. I will be adding a section as well as a couple of photos of the joists over the next few days and then more photos as the joists are being installed.

easi-joist Enquiry Form Updated! Finally

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Late last year when Internet Explorer 9 was released it came to my attention that the enquiry forms where not completely compatible with the new browser, so I set about updating them one at a time. After a few weeks I had updated the general enquiry form, the trussed rafter enquiry form and the place an order form, the easi-joist enquiry form though I just didn't get round to completing.

So this Saturday, more than seven months down the line, I was browsing the Internet when I came across Gravity Forms a WordPress plugin, this website is actually running on WordPress which is primarily designed to be a blogging platform that you can install on your own web hosts server so you can manage and customise it how you want. Anyway I decided to install the Gravity Forms plugin and I re-designed the general enquiry form in the plugin which which makes it super easy for anyone to make a form because you essentially pick which elements (text boxes, drop downs, checkboxes etc) that you want on your form and it does all the hard work of writing the code for you as well as setting up the database table to store the forms entries and the email notifications to tell you when someone has completed the form.

After testing the general enquiry form and being satisfied that I had it setup and working correctly I decided that it was past time that I sorted out the easi-joist enquiry form so after about an hour of work placing and customising all the form elements I wanted the form was finished. I carried out a couple of tests and then replaced the old enquiry form with the new form I created using Gravity Forms, that isn't the end though because you can still only enter the dimensions and quantity for one joist, in one of the next updates to the Gravity Forms plugin they are going to be adding the ability to add additional elements on the fly so as you are filling in the form you will be able to press a button and add another box or two to the form so you can add another joists details to the enquiry.

Web Browser Support

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What web browser are you using and is it up-to-date? Depending on what web browser and version you are using to visit our site today you may have noticed a small info bar at the top of the page letting you know that your browser is out of date.

This is important because as browsers are updated to support new standards like HTML5 so are websites with new features that are only supported by the most recent versions, it becomes costly and problematic to continue supporting older browser versions. Also supporting older browsers requires adding more code to the website which makes the files that your browser has to download bigger which slows down the page load times, and people generally don't like waiting for pages to load.

Earlier this week Google announced their plan to discontinue support for Firefox 3.5 and older, Internet Explorer 7 and older, and Safari 3 and older from August 1st 2011. What their announcement means is that anyone using one of those old browsers will have trouble using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Google Sites with them eventually ceasing to work entirely.

So what web browser are you using and is it up-to-date? if not you can get the latest version of the four main browsers by checking out on the links below. If you want to keep your browser up-to-date but don't want the hassle of having to download the latest version every time a new version is released you may want to check out Chrome or Firefox which both have an auto update feature which will automatically download and install the updates without you having to do anything.

Updated 26/06/2011:

If you are unable or don't want to update or replace Internet Explorer 6,7, or 8 you can now install the free Google Chrome Frame plugin that will allow you to view compatible websites such as ours using the Google Chrome engine without having to leave Internet Explorer, it also automatically updates so as Google enables more HTML5 features you will be able to view updated websites that use those features that aren't normally compatible with Internet Explorer.

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