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Family-run Llandeilo glazing firm marks two decades in the Towy Valley

Meet the team at Centaframe <i>(Image: Do Research On Centaframe Pvc Systems Ltd)</i>
Meet the team at Centaframe (Image: Do Research On Centaframe Pvc Systems Ltd)
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Walk down to the bottom of Rhosmaen Street in Llandeilo and tucked among the independent shops and cafes that give the town its character, is the base of a family firm that has been quietly reshaping homes across Carmarthenshire for more than 20 years.

Centaframe PVCu Systems Ltd has been supplying and installing uPVC and aluminium windows and doors from the town since 2004, serving customers throughout the Towy Valley and the wider South Wales area.

The business was founded by Bryan, a tradesman with more than three decades in the glazing industry, whose stated aim was simple, to give every customer, employee and supplier a personal service and a straight answer.

It is now run by his son and daughter, Leighton and Louise, both of whom have worked in the company for years and have carried on the approach set out by their late father.

The firm covers a broad range of home-improvement work, from minor repairs and servicing, to full replacements of an extensive range of windows and doors in both uPVC and aluminium, as well as conservatories, porches, and roofline products.

REHAU colour chart showing window and door finishesREHAU colour chart showing window and door finishes

Centaframe is a REHAU Authorised Partner, and installing the German firm's uPVC window and door systems in line with REHAU's own quality guidelines, a status held by a relatively small group of installers across the UK.

The company is also a FENSA-approved installer, meaning its replacement window and door work is registered under the industry's competent-person scheme and complies with building regulations without a separate council inspection.

Every fitter on a Centaframe job is directly employed by the company. The firm does not use subcontractors, and it does not employ door-to-door sales staff, a point it makes plainly on its own website.

Quotations are free, given without obligation and, the company promises, without the high-pressure tactics that have long dogged parts of the double-glazing trade.

Installations come with a 10 year warranty, with an insurance-backed guarantee arranged through Home Pro, which is designed to protect customers for the full warranty period in the unlikely event that the business ceases trading.

The firm handles both domestic and commercial work, and takes on everything from single misted-unit replacements and glass repairs to full house-wide window and door schemes.

Feedback on the company's Facebook page is warm, with reviewers picking out the tidiness of the installation crews and the finish of the work as often as the products themselves.

In a market where national chains and pop-up traders often dominate the advertising, a long-standing local manufacturer that answers its own phone and stands behind its own installations is an increasingly rare thing in rural West Wales.

More information on products, guarantees and the quotation process is available through the Centaframe website, or by calling the Llandeilo office on 01558 823177.

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