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Colour Matched Air Bricks for Glazed Ceramic Bricks & Cladding
With a high gloss finish and vivid colour range available, the use of glazed bricks, glazed brick slips and terracotta cladding can create striking feature walls on a wide variety of buildings - from housing to schools, supermarkets to football stadiums. The ceramic coating of a glazed brick and cladding brings a unique surface shine [...]
Rytons 50 Golden Years
2022 marks a very special milestone for Rytons – it’s our 50th Anniversary. At the heart of Rytons are its family ties, and we are pleased to share how Rytons has been a family business for three generations. The first generation … In 1972 William Irwin and his wife Beatrice formed Ryton’s Ventilation Equipment Ltd, [...]
No Need to Fake Weeps
“Fake weep vents. Doesn’t seem to be a snagging list without them. Seem to be finding this every day now.” Says the commentary in this video from the On The Tools YouTube channel. Aside from the woeful lack of skill and knowledge of the Building Regulations shown by the bricklayer by not fitting weep vents, [...]
UPDATE: Weep Hole Duct Regulations Have Changed
Make Sure You Know the Rytweep® for the Job For fire safety, components used in the external walls of buildings with a storey 18m high or more (11m in Scotland) must now be non-combustible – this includes weep hole ducts. For England and Wales, this change is applied through the 2018 updates to Building Regulation [...]
How to ensure compliant ventilation in Scotland’s high-rise buildings
Following the tragic Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, a review of fire safety in multi-storey buildings in Scotland was undertaken by the Ministerial Working Group. Recommendations in the review resulted in updates to the Building Standards Technical Handbooks. Updates to the Technical Handbooks specify external wall systems on all hospitals and care homes of any [...]
Introducing Rytons Ultra-Clear Slim Vent® Minor
Rytons is delighted to announce that the Rytons Flyscreened Slim Vent® Minor clear (SVFMINCL) and original Slim Vent® Minor clear (SVMINCL) are now a new and improved ultra-clear! Used in timber frame and traditional build, Rytons new ultra-clear Slim Vent® Minor are the only transparent perpend weep vents on the market and the latest products [...]
Rytons Rytweep®: Plastic vs. A1 Fire-rated
Weep hole ducts are a staple requirement of any brick build, from houses to multi-storey apartment projects. Every year millions of Rytons concealed Rytweep® are used by house builders, bricklayers and contractors nationwide, making them an industry favourite. But with ALL plastic weeps banned from use in relevant multi-storey buildings 18m high or more (11m [...]
Fire Safety and A1 Fire-rated Ducting Explained
Following the tragic Grenfell Tower fire, the government commissioned an independent review of the Building Regulations and fire safety. Recommendations in the report quickly resulted in changes to regulations banning the use of combustible materials in the external walls of relevant buildings above 18m (11m in Scotland). Consequently, since December 2018, all materials or products [...]