Icopal Systems - Icopal's Monaperm delivers the ultimate
valentine's present
When contractor Adrian Billingsley was asked to gift
wrap a new house as a Valentine’s present there was
really only one material that was up to the job –
Icopal’s Monarperm 700 breather membrane.
Hollywood photographer Jasin Boland had bought his
fiancée Maria Moral Pena a £500,000 luxury holiday home
on the exclusive Lower Mill Estate near the Prince of
Wales’ Highgrove Estate in Gloucestershire.
And he wanted the limited-edition, Richard Reid-designed
house gift wrapped in white paper, decorated with red
hearts and topped off with a giant pink ribbon and bow.
Adrian was hired for the gift wrap and specified
Icopal’s Monarperm 700 – a high-performance breathable
membrane for pitched roofs that eliminates the need for
traditional eaves/ridge ventilation.
Its special three-layer composite structure uses a
unique microporous film that provides high tensile
strength and puncture resistance. It is also
lightweight, easy to handle at 1.5 metres wide and UV
stable.
All of this was just as well because the gift wrap had
to be sewn industrially and the shape prefabricated
before it was moved to site. Five pieces – one for the
roof and two each for the walls and the gable ends –
were then joined on site using high-strength Velcro.
Adrian said: “We chose Monarperm for several reasons.
The material was plain white on one side so had the
appearance of paper which was essential to make it look
like wrapping paper. But it was very strong and had to
withstand gale force winds and the downdraft of the
helicopter that brought Jasin and Maria in.
“It was also waterproof which was just as well as on the
day of installation it was pouring with rain. We could
also source the full amount at short notice and it was
the most cost effective of the roofing membranes we
could source.”
Jasin, who also has a home on Australia’s Gold Coast,
flew actress Maria in by private helicopter before
rowing her across one of the seven lakes on the estate
to unwrap her new, four-bedroomed holiday home.
They met three years ago in her home city of Berlin on
the set of The Bourne Supremacy where he was working as
the official stills photographer and she was an extra.
Jason proposed on the exact same spot last December.
Jasin plans to teach himself to paint when he gives up
work and that is why he chose Lower Mill (www.lowermillestate.com)
where there is already a budding artists' community and
the largest collection of modernism in the rural
landscape
Email:
tracy@tlcpr.co.uk
Arundel Jones Associates Ltd
Hill Farm, Linton Hill, Maidstone, Kent ME17 4AL
Tel : 01622 745333
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