Coastal joins the BWF and launches Part Q initiative

The BWF has welcomed Coastal Group to its ranks as an associate member of the Federation.

One of the UK's leading trade-only suppliers of timber window and door hardware solutions, the highly experienced, family-run business operates across the UK and Europe, providing customer care and quality allied to expertise across every aspect of door and window hardware systems.

As part of its commitment to customer support, the company has launched a new initiative to enable businesses in the trade to easily and effectively become fully Part Q compliant.

Loren Jenner, Director at Coastal says: “We are excited to be working with the BWF and supporting, particularly the technical work of the association.  In line with our dedicated approach to providing the trade with a combination of quality products and technical knowledge, our Part Q compliance initiative is something we feel will really benefit members and we are looking forward to rolling this out to all BWF members supplying the new build housing market."

You can contact Coastal Group about their Part Q initiative by calling them on 01726 871726 or by emailing the team at sales@coastal-group.com

Compliance with Part Q has been a hot topic for the joinery industry since before 1st October 2015 when the Building Regulations for England introduced the requirement for security rated doors and windows to be provided for new build homes. One of the major changes was that doorsets and windows should be made to a design that has been shown by test to meet the security requirements of PAS 24:2012, although doorsets can instead be designed and manufactured in accordance with Appendix B of Approved Document Q.

BWF has provided a proposed Appendix that describes a bespoke timber doorset that would be “deemed to satisfy” Requirement Q1. Members can log in and access it here: https://bwf.org.uk/publications/windows.