editor ’s letter
Welcome
For those of us keen to create an individual home, one of the big challenges of the past 18 months has been the lack of access to showrooms, where we can try out key products and pose our project questions to people who’ve been there and done it all before. Yes, we can do some things very successfully online – Build It’s Virtual Training (www. buildit.co.uk/training) has proven a big hit with course attendees, for instance. But if you really want to put a tilt-and-turn window through its paces, check how smoothly those big bifolds are going to operate or get a true sense of what that handmade tile blend will look like when it’s up on your roof, there’s no substitute for actually seeing products in the flesh. It’s also the best chance you’ll get to go over the nitty gritty design and specification details.