Livingwood Door & Window Specialists is a Suffolk-based company, serving clients across the UK and overseas with high-performance, low-maintenance windows and doors made from aluminium, timber and composite aluminium/timber. With over 50 years of combined experience within the building industry, at Livingwood we provide a full service from specification through to delivery and installation of any of our aluminium or timber windows and doors, as well as our curtain walling, sliding systems, sun screening and conservatories. Our drive for complete customer services is matched by our appetite for providing the most energy efficient products and our willingness to take responsibility for the environment.
Our technical insight into passive construction and low energy buildings helps us provide our clients with the right energy efficient products for each project. In terms of our responsibility for the wider environment, we have a number of policies in place to ensure our offices and suppliers adhere to good environmental practice. All the timber we source is from a well-managed forest with FSC certification.
We also have a select panel of approved installers and can provide our clients with estimates for our end-to-end installation service. At Livingwood, our priority is to provide a full customer service from product specification through to final fitting.
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With over 50 years of combined experience within the building industry and an appetite to provide the most energy efficient window and door installations for their customers, Toby Golding and Antony Jackson have established Livingwood as a major player in the design and manufacture of high-performance, low-maintenance aluminium windows and doors.
Both Golding and Jackson went to school together, with both their families moving to Suffolk at the age of 15. The pair went to university but returned to Suffolk after their studies working together and took the bold decision to go it alone and run their own window and door business, supplying for both commercial and residential projects.
Having worked out of a string of smaller premises – including one in Bury St. Edmunds town centre – growing consumer demand led the pair to Livingwood’s current headquarters, based on Bury’s Hillside Business Park in the Moreton Hall area.
Livingwood has been based here for two years now and the company is already looking at the prospect of moving to even bigger premises nearby that would be partly funded by a grant from the Suffolk County Council’s New Anglia Growth Hub.
The New Anglia Growth Hub has already provided funding to help Livingwood cement its unique position as both a manufacturer and seller of one of Europe’s most popular brands for aesthetically stunning, high-performance aluminium windows and doors.
, a leading specialist in the development of innovative and sustainable solutions for aluminium windows, doors, curtain walling and more. It is their dedication to energy efficiency and sustainability – as well as style – which marries perfectly with the Livingwood philosophy.
Livingwood’s decision to sell solely Reynaers products partly influenced their considerable investment in state-of-the-art CNC machinery within their headquarters. The £110,000 acquisition – partly funded by the New Anglia Growth Hub – operates with Reynaers’ software system, Logical, which calculates the manufacture of all Reynaers’ products in-house to the millimetre.
“We buy absolutely everything from Reynaers to manufacture their products to the letter,” said co-founder, Antony Jackson.
Livingwood’s expansion to bigger premises has enabled them to utilise better machinery and work to even greater efficiencies. The company is keen to expand further whilst maintaining its bespoke element and the ability to provide custom installations for domestic and commercial use.
In terms of the company’s foundations, the team has expanded quickly in the last three years, from just two full-time staff to eight today. In terms of installations, Livingwood has been able to pitch for and accept projects nationwide thanks to a reliable team of six contractors that work solely for them, fitting their Reynaers windows and doors across the country.
There is no doubt that the foundations are firmly in place for Livingwood to have a very bright future. Their technical insight and highly efficient manufacturing processes, coupled with their drive for impeccable customer service makes the company a force to be reckoned with. That growth and future potential has already been recognised with Livingwood securing the Window & Door Specialist of the Year accolade by Buildings and Facilities News at the end of 2016.
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With Livingwood very much riding the upward curve of the aluminium industry and its founders investing heavily towards in-house manufacturing, the company should be considered very much a trend-setter and one that’s in control of its own destiny.
If you are an architect, builder or home/business-owner, and would like to find out more about our aluminium products, you can contact us on 01284 764045 or simply fill in the form below:
Now that our order has been completed, I am writing to thank everyone involved for all the efforts made to install the doors in an efficient and, ultimately, timely manner. They are much admired and I’m grateful for your willingness to replace the sills so that the finished product matches the quality of the doors themselves. Thanks again.
Just to let you know the windows looks amazing and the guys that fitted them were all lovely. Glad we used your company. We couldn't be happier with them!
I am just dropping you a line to say many thanks for your excellent service and quality product. You were the only window suppliers who were prepared to take on our sliding door design for which we are very grateful... the house would not be quite the same without them. We had a very slight problem with one of the upstairs windows which was sorted out very promptly to our complete satisfaction. The electrician damaged a wooden internal beading and you replaced that free of charge.
