Home Insulation Ltd - Everest

Founded in 1965 as `Home Insulation Ltd` in Waltham Abbey, to produce Aluminium Secondary glazing, it was created in the vision of one its founders David Kingsley to sell new glazing to post-war homes built with no insulation. It was a fortuitous time for Mr Kingsley to start in home improvements. The post-war years of austerity were at an end and living standards were improving considerably with a 40% increase in real wages between 1960 and 1965. More people owned their own homes - almost 50% by 1966. However, many homes were substandard either built in the post-war building boom with limited materials or dating back pre-war and had suffered from years of under-investment through the war years. Mr Kingsley`s timing was impeccable and enabled the company to ride a 40-year boom in home improvements based on installing quality products.