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Copper guttering featured in 'Period Ideas' magazine this month.

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This month in 'Period Ideas' there was an article giving pointers on how to get your guttering and downpipes ready for the coming months and the onset of winter. Together with a useful action plan to keep your gutters in the best working order was a photograph of our stylish copper guttering on a timber frame home. Of course if copper is the material chosen for the guttering then it will last more than 100 years with very little maintenance required what so ever. Copper requires no decoration, cleaning and virtually no maintenance other than the removal of debris that may fall into the guttering. The reason being that copper is a natural product and acts as  an algaecide and fungicide, keeping growths such as moss and lichen to a minimum, therefore keeping gutters clear and also excellent for rain water harvesting.    For more information visit http://www.coppagutta.co.uk/  or call us on 01489 797774. (Coppa Gutta is a trade mark of Good Directions Ltd, the only UK manu

Good Directions Ltd supports protest against wind farms across Wales

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Last week Good Directions Ltd (incorporating Coppa Gutta) was asked to manufacture six copper boxes to be used to hold square patches of turf. Being an unusual request we asked what the significance of the turf was and why they wanted copper trays. We were told that copper was chosen as it is an environmentally friendly material, totally natural, extremely long-lasting and will help keep the turf alive and healthy as long as possible. The reason for this being that there is a proposed march to Cardiff where children are going to be presenting six members of the Welsh Assembly with turf taken from the Mid Wales uplands, asking the councillors to become trustee's of the turf and protect it from the plans to build massive wind farms across Wales. Hearing of these plans we happily offered to donate the copper trays and to add our voice to the protest. More than 1,000 people are expected to descend on Cardiff Bay on the 24 th May to protest against the plans to blight the Montgomerys

Good Directions shares welding tips with Italian partner on work experience.

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At Good Directions Ltd we have a long standing close relationship with an Architectural Features manufacturer in Italy and we recently had the pleasure of one of their members of staff coming over for two weeks to gain work experience with us and improve his English language skills at the same time. A talented fabricator whom has worked for ItalG for the last four years, Diego was keen to learn English techniques from our own experienced in-house team of fabricators and engineers. At Good Directions we offer a range of copper rainwater systems with three standard styles of gutter in two sizes. These often need to have special angle corners made to suit a customers exact requirements or even made to suit curved or completely round buildings. Our in-house capabilities also means we have the expertise to manufacture bespoke items such as customer designed copper hopper heads. Keen and enthusiastic Diego was a delight to have working along side us and soon picked up several tricks of