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Our Latest Award
THREE OAKS FARM IFOLD A bespoke, single-storey, intergenerational courtyard home set within six acres of rewilded landscape. Thoughtfully designed for wellbeing and retirement living, the home…
UNESCO Recognises Zinc Roofers & Ornamentalists
PRESS RELEASE Recognition of Zinc Roofers and Ornamentalists by UNESCO On December 4th, 2024, in Asunción (Paraguay), the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural…
We’ve Won an Award!
We are pleased to announce that a project we were heavily involved with is a double-award winner with the Sussex Heritage Trust. The property is the Triangle House, an innovative project featured on…
Accreditation
South Coast Metal Roofing is proud to be accredited by VMZINC UK and CHAS. VMZINC RECOGNISED INSTALLER We have again been accredited as a VMZINC Recognised Installer Zinc is among the most…
We Are Recruiting!
WE ARE RECRUITING! We are looking for experienced standing seam installers using zinc, aluminium or copper. Working on price of day rate – negotiable. Email us…
The Benefits of Zinc Roofing
Thankfully Artificial Intelligence probably won’t be replacing metal roofing specialists anytime soon but here’s what ChatGPT has to say about the benefits of zinc roofing: “Zinc…
Sussex Heritage Trust Awards
We are proud too announce that a project we were heavily involved with has recently won a ‘Highly Commended’ award at the Sussex Heritage Awards with the judges remarking that the building was “….a…
Another Grand Designs Project
(Image copyright www.granddesignsmagazine.com) We were proud to feature in last night’s (8th Sept 2021) Grand Designs on Channel 4. Our clients were Olaf Mason and Fritha Vincent. Olaf is a highly…
Copper Top
This is one of our current roofing projects in progress. This standing seam roofing is on a linking walkway and uses copper in its natural state which will gain its own patina over time. This was an…
An Interesting Project
A couple of images from a ‘Grand Designs’ type project we were involved with. The customer did much of the work himself in a build that was a real labour of love. Some customers want a particular…
Merry Christmas!
Red, green and metallics. We can see the Christmas vibes in this recent project we did using VMZinc Pigmento Red, can you? What a year this has been! Thanks to all our patient customers. Have a…
VMZinc Roofing Systems
VmZinc have produced a really informative video about their roofing systems. Take a look and feel free to contact us if you have a project in mind or any queries.
3D Printed House
A Belgium-based Centre for Sustainability and Innovation in construction, printed a house using the largest 3D concrete printer in Europe. The 90-square metre (969 sq ft) dwelling was printed in one…
Zinc
You may have noticed that Zinc is one of the main roofing materials we work with. So what do we know about this useful substance? Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30….