Jupiter Blue

24/04/2019

Help us raise funds for Martin House Children’s Hospice

We’re proud to support Martin House Children’s Hospice. This amazing charity supports children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families, across West, North and East Yorkshire. Their vision is that every child and young person has access to palliative care when and where they need it.” West, North and East Yorkshire is an area of 5,000 sq miles and has a population of 4 million. The charity are heavily reliant on donations and fundraising in order to continue to be able to operate. Four of our team; Bob... Read More

Wetherby High School F1 in Schools 20/02/2019

F1 in Schools – Supporting Wetherby High School

F1 in schools is an initiative which is designed to help change the perceptions of science, technology, engineering and maths. The idea is to create a fun, fast paced learning environment for young people between the ages of 9-19 to get a taste of what careers in engineering, Formula One, Science, Marketing and Technology have to offer. The initiative involves students designing, building and racing their own scale model cars in a series of rounds which culminates in a national championship, held at Silverstone. We were delighted to learn that... Read More

Open your loft hatch with the press of a button 30/01/2019

Open your loft hatch with the press of a button

Make opening your loft as easy as possible with a Stira electrically powered loft hatch and ladder. The high quality unit is a combined loft hatch and ladder which is operated with a handy remote control. A simple push of a button lowers the loft hatch, all you have to do is to unfold the ladder (see our product listing for a video showing how easy this is). The hatch is hand made and features a number of innovative features including a battery backup so the hatch will operate in... Read More

AOV Smoke Vents Now available 18/01/2019

Smoke Vent AOVs (EN 12101-2 Certified) – Now Available

An increase in the construction of high rise buildings has been driven by our cities becoming more densely populated. There is an increasing need for smoke control and access systems to ensure these buildings are safe places to work and live. We’re pleased to announce we’re an official stockist of Brett Martin Mardome Trade Smoke Vents. The smoke vent is a rooflight with a Polycarbonate lid designed to be easily installed on flat and shallow pitched roofs. The dome provides natural light as well as natural smoke and heat exhaust,... Read More

Friends of Humanity Logo 15/11/2018

Helping others – Friends of Humanity Girls Hostel for Jipe Moyo Secondary School Project

From July 2018 onwards, Jupiter Blue has pledged to support three well-deserving charities, one of which is the Friends of Humanity Girls Hostel for Jipe Moyo Secondary School project.  It has two aims: to construct a hostel for vulnerable female pupils at risk of sexual abuse, and to drill water at the school site to give the pupils and teachers a local source of clean water. The Jipe Moyo Secondary School is in rural Tanzania, with the majority of its pupils coming from poor backgrounds.  The local culture is not... Read More

Bespoke loft hatches 15/10/2018

Product Feature SDS Made to Measure Loft Hatch

If your property has a non- standard size loft opening a made to measure loft hatch will save you time, hassle and money. What do we mean by non-standard size loft opening? For many years, Building regulations have specified residential houses have joists spaced at 600mm centres. Allowing for the width of the joists used the distance between the joists is around 565mm. As a result most standard size loft hatches are designed to fit a width of 560mm, this allows a small tolerance when fitting (this is why we... Read More

New Website Coming soon

Our current site has served us well for almost six years. During this time we’ve listened to customer feedback and introduced numerous features to improve customer service. These range from delivery countdown timers so you know when you should receive your order as well as our bespoke product calculator which allows custom size access panels to buy priced immediately and bought online. The way we all use the web is evolving, from increases in using mobile devices to the introduction of voice search. As such we need to evolve our... Read More

An easy guide to understanding Access Panel Dimensions

If you’re not familiar with access panels the choice of types and sizes can seem daunting. We use the same measurement standards for all access panels to keep things as simple as possible. For stock panels the size we list on our website is the size of the back of the panel as shown on the image below:   ) The size we quote on our website is the Length x Width marked on the image below. This part of the panel fits into the structural opening (the hole) in... Read More

Bespoke loft hatches 06/02/2017

Made to measure Loft Hatches – Fire Rated and Non Fire Rated Improved lead times

We’re probably the largest supplier of made to measure loft hatches in the country by a considerable margin. This already allows us to offer you the best prices and fastest lead times when ordering custom sized loft hatches. Historically we’ve produced bespoke hatches on a weekly product cycle which started on Wednesday of any given week. This was great for customers placing orders on Mondays or Tuesdays as their hatches would go straight into production but for customers ordering on Thursdays or Fridays this meant up to 11 working days... Read More