NEWS

Manufacturing at MRT – How We Get from Order to Delivery in 5 Working Days

• 9 July 2018
• Lexie Woolf

Minera Roof Trusses are renowned for their nationwide 5 day delivery service. Given that our competitors lead times can stretch up to 10 weeks, it’s no surprise that we receive a fair amount of questions about how we achieve this consistently throughout the industry’s busiest times of year. This month we’re feeling generous and thought we’d let you in on our manufacturing process which will guarantee your order to site within 5 working days.

Ordering with Minera Roof Trusses – A customer’s ‘How To’ Guide

• 4 June 2018
• Lexie Woolf

Building projects can be well known for causing the odd grey hair, so here at Minera Roof Trusses, we like to think we have made the ordering process as simple as can be. Here’s a quick 5 step guide to how you can order your trusses and/or joists with us.

10 Benefits of Metal Web Joists

• 14 March 2018
• Lexie Woolf

Minera Roof Trusses made the leap to supplying Metal Web Joists over 8 years ago and are happy to say, have never looked back. Today, we share our reasons as to just why we love them so much. If you hadn’t yet considered using metal web joists in your build, you may find a reason or ten here.

Site Surveying: A Q&A with Eric Meacock

• 2 March 2018
• Lexie Woolf

At Minera Roof Trusses, we understand the pressure our customers face during building projects with tight deadlines. It is our pleasure to be able to take some of this away by offering a free on site measuring service to sites local to our offices in Wrexham or for a small fee further afield.

With requests for site visits at an all-time high, we thought we would let you in on the man behind those oh so accurate measurements. Meet Eric Meacock, our Operations Director who has worked as part of the team for 34 years and counting. Many of you may know him as the elusive man spearheading our social media efforts, never to be mentioned himself but keeping you up to date on all things MRT. We take a quick coffee break to sit down with Eric and find out a little more about his experiences of site surveying...

Tip Top Timber Treatment

• 22 February 2018
• Lexie Woolf

Benefits of using Timber in Construction

Timber has a long standing reputation in the roof truss industry as the trusted source of strength and stability for builds. This is because timber is a natural composite of cellulose fibres that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression. In fact, timber has in cases been found to be stronger than structural steel, non-reinforced concrete, aluminium and masonry.