Kitemark for Window Installations

BSI Kitemark for Window Installation

As a window installer your business can register for one of the most prestigious certification marks in the business – the BSI Kitemark.  The Kitemark can help you gain the business edge by improving the quality of your installations; reducing mis-measures and service calls and gaining a powerful and effective marketing tool. Customers get increased satisfaction and confidence through use of the Kitemark, seen as a symbol of quality, safety and trust. 

It covers a wide variety of aspects, including:

• Design - Ensuring windows and doors are correct for intended use
• Surveying – Correct door and window fit and risk assessment
• Installation practice – Including the safe removal of old windows
• Staff training – Ensure all staff are properly trained and competent
• Property care – To avoid damage to furniture and floor coverings
• Building regulations compliance – Including fire, thermal efficiency and safety glazing
• Material quality – All materials must meet the required quality standards.
• Inspection – Check all installations are fitted in accordance with BS 8213-4 and the system designer recommendations.

New build, replacement and commercial markets are all covered by the scheme, irrespective of the types of materials used.

Kitemark for window installtions - a clear business advantage

The Kitemark is one of the UK's most respected certification marks, and is well-established in the double-glazing sector as a symbol of quality and reliability.

• Powerful and effective marketing tool 
• Reduced mis-measures and service calls by improving the quality of the installation, delivering you cost savings.
• Increased quality of surveying, improving your efficiency.
• Reduced delays in issuing paperwork – Kitemark installers who elect to use BSI to carry out local authority notifications and issuing of Building Regulations certificates can carry out these activities instantly via our website.
• It enables the installer to do the job right first time, saving you money.
  

What clients have said about the Kitemark for window installations:

"It's great to have third party endorsement of what we've been doing here at Banaglaze. We feel it's confirmation of the effort we've put in to provide the highest standards of quality. It's been a busy five weeks, but it's an honour to have received the Kitemark after all the effort put in to meet the stringent standards required."
Ian Leigh, Managing Director, Banaglaze

"The BSI Kitemark scheme for the survey and installation of windows and doors is welcomed and considered by LHC to be a positive development in ensuring companies continue to offer the highest levels of service quality".
Chris Powell, Development Officer of LHC

"The BSI Kitemark for the survey and installation of windows and doors is a welcome addition to the tools available to specifiers. By including the Kitemark for the installation service within our specification, we know that we can be confident that the companies working on our projects have been independently assessed by BSI and are fully capable of providing the highest levels of quality. This is good news for us and good news for our tenants."
Richard Atkinson, Building Surveyor from the Gateshead Housing Company

"One of the key drivers that influenced our decision to apply for the BSI Kitemark  for the survey and installation of windows was that one of the large specifiers in our area advised us that they will be specifying Kitemark for the products and installation teams used in their future projects. For this reason it makes good business sense for Window World to have Kitemark certification. It also gives us the ability to offer our customers a complete Kitemark service from Survey to Manufacture right through to Installation."
Pete Davidson, Quality Manager for Window World Ltd
 

To request a quote, download the Quotation Request form.

 Window Installers Quote Request form (pdf file, 55K)

Please print, complete, and return the form to BSI  by post or fax.

Request a Quality Plan

BSI offers a quality plan module for window installers. The quality plan is a document that outlines the procedures, specifications and associated resources your company utilizes to achieve the quality of workmanship required.

The quality plan module is designed to:

• Help clients understand the Kitemark scheme requirements and BS8213-4
• Provide a gap analysis report
• Provide an action plan of what is required and assign responsibilities for progression within an agreed timeframe.