Posted on 18/04/2015

Which juliet balcony is right for you? What is a juliet balcony? At its most basic description, a juliet balcony can be defined as a shallow balcony, acting as a balustrade on an upper floor of a building. Juliet balconies can often also be called juliettes, balconettes or balconets. Most juliet

Posted on 11/04/2015

What is glass? Glass is a solid, inorganic material that is hard, brittle and usually clear or translucent. Glass has many, many uses in the modern world from bottles to contain delicious beer, jars for our favourite farmhouse pates, chopping boards, mirrors, windows, balconies, doors and much more

Posted on 10/04/2015

DioMet have recently completed the design, manufacture and installation of a bespoke glass entrance canopy to a commercial entrance in Southam. The canopy design is centred around our T1 Modern style glass door canopy design which continues to be extremely popular. The glass entrance canopy compris

Posted on 10/04/2015

Are £1 home schemes a success? Liverpool City Council launched its £1 home scheme as part of a pilot project but 18 months on nobody has so much as moved in…. yet in Stoke-on-Trent for example, a similar project has seen would-be homeowners rushing to grab a bargain property. The homes were offere

Posted on 07/04/2015

How To Install a Handrail What is a handrail? Ask a simple question, get a simple answer : A handrail is a rail fixed to posts, a wall, or otherwise for people to hold onto for support. Handrails are designed to be grasped by the hand to provide stability and support. Handrails are commonly used

Posted on 02/04/2015

What is a balustrade? A balustrade can be defined as a row of repeating balusters, especially one forming a guarding to falls in height between floor levels for a balcony, bridge, terrace or deck. A baluster, being the vertical spindle or infill material can vary greatly and thus balustrades can

Posted on 27/03/2015

What is self-building? You may feel the answer is obvious or perhaps rhetorical but self-building is actually a little more in depth and does not require, necessarily, to get out your trowel and being laying courses of bricks. It is estimated that less than 15% of all housing projects actually inv

Posted on 26/03/2015

DioMet have recently completed the design, manufacture and installation of a modern, frameless glazed juliet balcony system to a new build domestic property in Hertfordshire. The balcony is an example between our frameless juliet balcony and our frameless glass balustrade system 7. Totally simplist

Posted on 26/03/2015

With spring and summer on the way, our washing line poles become ever more popular and to meet the latest customer feedback requests, we have designed a new product. DioMet are pleased to now offer our matching wall bracket to accompany the modern washing line pole. Simple, modern, affordable qualit

Posted on 10/03/2015

Staircase to Heaven Michelangelo is reported to have said, “My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.” To connect Michelangelo and Dio-met might seem a leap but in fact there is an obvious link. We like to make beautiful staircases and who are we to contrad