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- Take-off
- Setting-out
- Mark number
- System
- Systems house
- Window unit
- Curtain wall
- Insulating glass
- Uw / Sw
- Snags
- Handover certificate
- O&M file
The chain, from the search to handover.
The mark number is the unit that runs through everything: if it changes name on the way, the chain breaks.
Getting found
Website, gallery of installed facades, pages by town and by building type. A managing agent starts by looking at what you have already done.
Enquiry in
Tender, block-management request, private client. Dated, attributed to its source, attached to a contract from the first minute.
Take-off
The drawing dimensions, then the site dimensions. Both have to coexist until the order goes out.
Setting-out & order
Every unit becomes a mark — dimensions, infill, ironmongery, opening direction — and the profile schedule goes to the systems house with its lead time.
Fabrication
Cutting, machining, assembly, glazing. Every mark moves, and is seen to move.
Installation & handover
Mark by mark, with photos. Snags are cleared against the same object that was priced.
What jams, and where.
Invisible in your own towns
Managing agents and private clients search "aluminium joinery" followed by their town. With no page for those towns and a dormant Google listing, you are not in the comparison.
No installed facade to show
Completed work is the only argument that can be checked in ten seconds. With no gallery and no case studies, price is all that is left to separate you.
The site take-off lands after the order
Surveyed dimensions do not match the drawing. Reordering costs the systems-house lead time a second time.
Snags are tracked on paper
One list per building, another per floor. Clearance drags, and the retention with it.
What we put in place.
Bring the enquiry in on proof, then hold the mark: both sets of dimensions, its system, its order, its installation date and its snags. There is no table left to keep on the side.
Website & project gallery
Facades installed, building types covered, performance figures. One page per town you work in and one per type of work — curtain walling, windows, shopfronts.
Local SEO & block management
Google listing, reviews, town pages. Ads target managing-agent and tender queries while organic climbs.
Drawing take-off and site take-off
Two sets of dimensions against one mark, with the gap visible. The order goes out on the right ones, and you know why.
Snags tracked mark by mark
Photo, location, owner, clearance date. The handover certificate comes out of the tool, not out of a spreadsheet.
Frequently asked questions
How do we get found by managing agents?
Through local proof. A page for every town you have already worked in, case studies of window-replacement jobs in managed blocks with before-and-after photos and a real programme, and a Google listing with reviews. Agents compare three firms: the one that documented a job on the next street starts ahead.
What software should an aluminium joinery contractor use?
It has to hold the mark end to end: drawing take-off and site take-off, setting-out, profile schedule, systems-house order with its lead time, fabrication, installation and snag clearance. MetalSales follows that mark, and MetalField reports it from site.
Can several profile systems be managed?
Yes. Each system is configured with its references, its composition rules and its cross-references. Pricing works on systems rather than copied lines, and switching a mark to another system recomputes what depends on it.
How are snags tracked through to the handover certificate?
A snag attaches to a mark, with its photo, its location, its owner and its clearance date. The state of the snag list is readable at any moment, and the certificate is generated from the tool instead of being reassembled from separate lists.
Does it interface with systems-house configurators?
Systems-house configurators price a unit; they track neither the site nor the invoicing. MetalSales takes their output as the starting point of the quote, then carries the mark through to installation and application. Links are built case by case, through the custom studio.
See a real setting-out and your local rankings.
Bring a take-off and a recent systems-house order. We look at where the two diverge — and at what you rank for in your towns.