Stormflo

The sports and community centre in Cheetham Hill in Manchester was built by main contractor CSC Construction for the Guinness Trust on behalf of the local community.

The building's large roof demanded a large capacity rainwater system to cope with the anticipated high flow rates, and Hunter Plastics' Stormflo's impressive deep, 200mm wide profile fitted the bill perfectly.

Martin Millington from contractor A Millington had never used Stormflo before but is enthusiastic about the results. "It was obvious that we were going to need a larger profile guttering," he comments, "and after shopping around with a number of suppliers, we discovered that Stormflo was the only PVC system that could cope with the flow rates from this particular roof." "An aluminium product would have been much more difficult to install and had a very long lead time - Stormflo was available in just three days,"